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In 2006, Italy won the World Cup, Beyoncé had two Billboard chart toppers and New Jersey property-tax bills averaged $6,446.
While a lot has changed over the last decade-and-a-half including the size of those property-tax bills the year 2006 remains frozen in time for one of the state’s most popular property-tax relief programs.
That’s because governors and lawmakers from both parties have for well over a decade been using outdated bills from 2006 to calculate property-tax relief benefits provided to seniors, people with disabilities and thousands of other homeowners who meet income qualifications for what’s known as the Homestead Benefit Program.
Opinion: New Jersey needs local civilian review boards with subpoena power
New Jerseyans need to demand legislative changes to the process of reviewing complaints of police misconduct throughout the state. Currently, municipal and county law enforcement agencies, county prosecutors, and the state’s Attorney General have the power to conduct internal affairs investigations regarding police misconduct and determine whether and how to discipline individual officers. It is natural to doubt the veracity of the results of an investigation of possible wrongdoing by a government institution and its resulting conclusions when the government institution accused of wrongdoing is conducting the investigation itself. Understandably, New Jerseyans question whether the internal affairs process in our state, in which law enforcement investigates itself, may be trusted. To improve public trust, the time has come for municipalities and counties in New Jersey to have the power to establish civilian
You can avoid a $180 fine for not having your registration if this N.J. bill becomes law
Updated Feb 25, 2021;
Drivers who get asked by a police officer to show their registration could finally move into the 21st Century if state law is changed to allow the document to be displayed on a smartphone.
The idea, which has been pending since 2019, took a step, when bill A-3533 was approved by an Assembly committee Monday, which now clears it for either a vote of the full Assembly or a hearing by a different committee. Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin, D-Middlesex would make that call.