A May 2, 2014 article in the Asbury Park Press, “Asbury Park names new deputy police chief,” reported on the city’s 2011 out-of-court settlement that resolved a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by police officer Jessenia Davila-Vick against Deputy Chief (then Captain) Anthony Salerno. According to the article, “[t]he amount of the settlement was not available […]
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Video of Atlantic City Police incident that caused $200,000 excessive force payout
By way of an Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request, I received a video of the incident for which Glen Forero, Jr. claimed that Atlantic City, New Jersey Police Officers Mark A. Pincus, Jr. and Jerard Ingenito used excessive force against him. The video is on-line here and more information about the lawsuit is on-line […]
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Millstone pays $375,000 to settle two whistleblower lawsuits.
On March 4, 2015, the Township of Millstone (Monmouth County) agreed to pay $375,000 to two former Township Department of Public Works employees who claimed that they were fired after reporting other DPW employees’ “unlawful conduct.” In separate lawsuits, Ronald Anderson and Mark Philpot said that that things went bad at the DPW after Jeffrey […]
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Bridgeton still citing people under ordinance that was superseded in 2003.
Following is my letter to the Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office and Bridgeton City Officials regarding the Bridgeton Municipal Court’s continued practice of downgrading statutory violations to a municipal code provision that hasn’t been in effect since 2003. I contacted the Prosecutor’s Office regarding the same issue in 2010 and was told that it was resolved. […]
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Former Cumberland First Assistant Prosecutor charged with ethics violation.
Update 11/04/17: A criminal defendant named Candido Mayas alleged in his Post Conviction Relief application that Branco and Helmer colluded with one another. Specifically, Mayas claimed that Branco, who “allegedly negotiated [a] favorable plea agreement with [Mayas’ codefendant who cooperated with the prosecutor] was terminated from his employment with the Cumberland County prosecutor’s office two […]