Paramus NJ, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal announced charges of Murder, Desecration of Human Remains, Hindering Apprehension and Possession of a Weapon for an Unlawful Purpose against JESUS LOPEZ (DOB: 08/19/1987) of 44 Spring Valley Road, Paramus, New Jersey, in connection with the death of his mother, 56-year-old Susana Lopez (DOB: 1/10/1961) of Paramus.
On October 24, 2017, Paramus Police were requested to conduct a welfare check at 44 Spring Valley Road in Paramus where Jesus LOPEZ resided with his mother Susana Lopez. After making contact with Jesus LOPEZ who was inside the home, further investigation revealed that he had murdered his mother days earlier, and that her remains were on the property. Police subsequently located her remains in a detached garage adjacent to the residence.
Following an investigation by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Unit and the Paramus Police Department, Jesus LOPEZ was arrested for the murder of Susana Lopez and was brought to the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office for processing.
Jesus LOPEZ is charged with the following offenses: Murder in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:11-3a(1),(2), a crime of the 1st Degree; Desecration of Human Remains in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:22-1A(1), a crime of the 2nd Degree; Possession of a Weapon for an Unlawful Purpose in violation of a crime of the 3rd Degree; and Hindering Apprehension in violation of N.J.S.A 2C:29-3B(1), a crime of the 3rd Degree. He is presently in the custody of the Bergen County Sheriff pending his first appearance, which will be set by the Superio Court.
Prosecutor Grewal states that these charges are merely accusations and that the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Prosecutor Grewal would like to thank the Paramus Police Department under the direction of Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg and the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office Bureau of Criminal Investigations under the direction of Sherriff Michael Saudino for their assistance in this investigation.
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October 28,2017
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Westwood NJ, A PSE&G Electric Division crew struck a natural gas line while setting a utility pole on Lafayette Avenue in Westwood on Friday afternoon, 10/27. An unknown number of residential structures within close proximity to the struck line were evacuated until repairs were made. Fire department personnel from Westwood and Washington Township were placed on stand by at the scene. No incident related injuries were reported.
photo courtesy of Boyd Loving’s Facebook
October 27,2017
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Glen Rock NJ, For the second time in less than one (1) week, a brush fire caused the temporary suspension of train traffic on NJ Transit’s Bergen County Line through Glen Rock. The Friday afternoon, 10/27, brush fire was contained to a small area and extinguished by Glen Rock firefighters using water cans, shovels, and rakes. The fire was spotted by a NJ Transit Maintenance of Way employee working near 536 Broad Street, Glen Rock. No injuries were reported. Glen Rock Police, NJ Transit Police, and Hawthorne Fire Department also responded.
Waldwick NJ, A Thursday afternoon, 10/26 Waldwick fire that reportedly originated in an outdoor barbecue resulted in one (1) person sustaining minor burns and required the response of Waldwick Fire Department personnel to extinguish. Minor fire related damage was reported to the exterior of a single family home located on Charles Terrace, Waldwick resultant from the fire. Waldwick EMS transported the burn victim to The Valley Hospital for treatment. Waldwick Police also responded.
Fort Lee NJ, The Community Resource Council is honoring John Mitchell, President of Fort Lee Rotary and Former Bergen County Freeholder Chairman on December 6th with the prestigious Dr. Harry Brandeis Community Service Award.
visited the Zabriskie Schedler House 2013
Each year the Community Resource Council is pleased and proud to award the Dr. Harry Brandeis Memorial Community Service Award. Dr. Harry Brandeis was a
highly respected, distinguished Bergen County physician and philanthropist who served as the president of the Community Resource Council Board of Trustees for many years.
This award was established to honor Dr. Brandeis’s memory and is accorded to individuals that have made significant contributions to the community.
The Community Resource Council established in 1933 is a recognized vital resource center that informs and educates about the health and human services and resources
available in the Bergen County area, State of New Jersey, and the Nation. The CRC has become a “last resort” agency for all those needing help.
Fair Lawn NJ, Personnel from Fair Lawn Fire Truck Company #1 and Fair Lawn FD Engine Company #3 assisted a family of Edward Street, Fair Lawn by retrieving a portable gazebo that had blown up onto the roof of their single family home during a Tuesday afternoon, 10/24 rain/wind storm, and become entangled in the structure’s chimney. No injuries were reported in the mishap and the chimney sustained cosmetic damage only. However, the portable gazebo appeared to have been destroyed.
GLEN ROCK NJ , Stag House and its counterpart Doe.Tique, a full-service barbershop and salon headquartered in Glen Rock, NJ, announced it will host their second annual Step Brothers-themed Stagiversary, The Catalina Stag Mixer, on Friday, November 3 from 6 to 10 p.m., 228 Rock Rd, Glen Rock, NJ. Catering to both the refined gentleman and the unique women, the event will celebrate Stag House’s second anniversary, while supporting and paying homage to the local community.
“We work hard to build relationships with our clients and staff. Last year’s event drew over 150 attendees – from old friends and family to distant relatives and friends who drove over two hours – just to support us,” says Christine Modica, co-owner, Stag House. “For our second year, we are hoping to drive home our mission: create bonds between clients and other local businesses to have a strong foundation to continue growing alongside others.”
Stag House prides itself on supporting the community and using local businesses, products and services to promote each other.
Rachel Israel, co-owner, Stag House, says, “This event is really a way to let everyone know how much we appreciate them being part of our business, because we couldn’t have done it without them. Stag isn’t a typical salon. We service the client. This is the one place where people can be themselves and forget about their stress – where no one gets judged for who they are.”
The Step Brothers-themed evening will feature several local vendors and entertainment, including: Glen Rock Inn, Merve’s Kitchen and Bakery, Francesca Brick Oven Pizza & Pasta, Andy’s Corner, Pop’s Breakfast and Lunch Stop, Architekt Music School, United EVENTures, JT Straws, LaTour Ridgewood, signage from Bracken Designs and photos by MNM Photography.
Master Barber, Kevin Modica, who recently joined Stag House, is hoping to use the Stagiversary as a way to welcome clients – old and new – and give back. He says, “There is not enough thanks in the world I can give to those who support me.”
Mahwah NJ ,Mahwah Police and EMS units rushed to the scene of a multi vehicle crash involving a mini school bus at the intersection of Bayberry Drive and Masonicus Road on Tuesday afternoon, 10/24. The school bus slammed head-on into a tree in Mahwah after being struck by another vehicle early Tuesday evening.
Multiple victims, adult and juvenile, were transported by ambulances to area hospitals. Three (3) vehicles, including the school bus, were removed from the scene by tow trucks.
Mahwah NJ, Likening the conduct of Mahwah township officials to 1950s-era “white flight” suburbanites who sought to keep African-Americans from moving into their neighborhoods, Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino announced today that the State has filed a Superior Court complaint against the Mahwah Township Council and the Township of Mahwah alleging that, in an effort to stave off a feared influx of Orthodox Jewish persons from outside New Jersey, it approved two unlawfully discriminatory ordinances.
One of those ordinances discriminated by banning non-New-Jersey-residents from using Mahwah’s public parks, the State alleges. The other – an ordinance amendment – discriminated by effectively banning the posting, on utility poles, of plastic strips called “lechis” that denote the boundaries of an eruv used by Sabbath-observant Orthodox Jews. The complaint also challenges actions the township has taken to have an existing eruv removed.
Filed in Superior Court in Bergen County, the State’s nine-count complaint is filed on behalf of Attorney General Porrino, the Division on Civil Rights, Commissioner Bob Martin and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). It charges that the township council, influenced largely by vocal anti-Orthodox-Jewish sentiment expressed by some residents at public meetings and on social media, engaged in unlawful discrimination aimed at halting an unwanted “infiltration” by Orthodox Jews – particularly from neighboring Rockland County, NY.
In addition to charging discrimination, the State’s complaint notes that Mahwah Township has applied for and received more than $3.4 million in DEP Green Acres grants – money the lawsuit filed today seeks to reclaim – for purchase and maintenance of its parks, and that Mahwah’s ordinance banning non-New-Jersey residents from using those parks is a direct breach of its Green Acres funding contracts.
“In addition to being on the wrong side of history, the conduct of Mahwah’s township council is legally wrong, and we intend to hold them accountable for it,” said Attorney General Porrino. “To think that there are local governments here in New Jersey, in 2017, making laws on the basis of some archaic, fear-driven and discriminatory mindset, is deeply disappointing and shocking to many, but it is exactly what we are alleging in this case. Of course, in this case we allege the target of the small-minded bias is not African-Americans, but Orthodox Jews. Nonetheless, the hateful message is the same.”
DEP Commissioner Bob Martin said it is “regrettable” that Mahwah appears to have made a concerted effort to block non-New-Jersey- residents from using its public parks, which are subject to Green Acres restrictions as a condition of Green Acres funding to Mahwah.
Martin noted that, as the State lawsuit filed today makes plain, the Green Acres Act provides that use of any lands acquired under the program is not to be restricted on the basis of religion or residency.
“The Green Acres Program was created in 1961 and envisioned as a way to meet the recreation and conservation needs of our growing state. It was intended to ensure that in the future, there would always be plenty of open spaces across New Jersey for people – all people – to enjoy,” said Martin. “What’s been happening in Mahwah with respect to the township’s parks ordinance is not in accordance with the original intent of the Green Acres Program. As such, it is unacceptable, and it cannot be allowed to stand.”
Attorney General Porrino said Mahwah’s council members should be setting a better example than to entertain – and act under the influence of – public comments rife with hate and bias.
“Our public officials are sworn to respect and uphold the rule of law, to set an example and represent all citizens – not just those with the loudest voices,” said Porrino. “No person should need to hide his or her religious faith to live, work, or enjoy a local park. Likewise, local government should not be interfering with the exercise of religious freedom, as we allege Mahwah has attempted to do with its ordinance amendment effectively banning eruv markings. Through our lawsuit, we seek to have these illegal, bias-driven actions nullified.”
In addition to seeking statutory penalties and attorney’s fees and costs, the complaint seeks return of all Green Acres funding awarded Mahwah. It also asks the Court to grant preliminary and permanent injunctions blocking the two Mahwah ordinances alleged to be discriminatory.
The State’s complaint explains that an eruv is a designated geographical area within which Jews who hold certain religious beliefs may push or carry objects – such as a stroller, wheelchair, keys or identification – during the Sabbath (Friday evening to Saturday evening) and during the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.
For those who hold these beliefs, the complaint notes, the act of pushing or carrying objects on the Sabbath or Yom Kippur is permitted only inside the home or within the confines of a properly established eruv. An eruv is commonly created by affixing thin plastic strips known as lechis to utility poles to mark the boundaries of the area.
In 2015, the Bergen Rockland Eruv Association sought to extend an existing eruv in Rockland County, NY, to cover the full southern part of Rockland County. The proposed path of the extension included areas within a portion of Mahwah Township near the New York border.
The State’s complaint alleges that, despite approval of the posting of lechis on its utility poles in Mahwah by Orange & Rockland Utilities – and despite the township having struck a formal agreement to ensure security and traffic control by Mahwah Police in May 2017 while the posting work went on – the township council forged ahead in July 2017 and approved an illegal amendment to its sign ordinance effectively banning lechis on utility poles.
As amended, the sign ordinance – which previously banned simply “signs” on utility poles – now included expanded language prohibiting the posting of “any … device or other matter” on a utility pole, shade tree, lamp post, curbstone, sidewalk, or upon any public structure or building in Mahwah.
A month after initiating efforts to amend the sign ordinance language, the council voted to authorize Mahwah’s zoning officer to issue summonses against the Bergen Rockland Eruv Association for violating the existing ordinance. The State’s lawsuit observes that, prior to the sign ordinance being amended, the Eruv Association had worked cooperatively with Orange & Rockland Utilities, the Mahwah township administration and the Mahwah police department in creating the eruv.
With respect to the ordinance banning non-New-Jersey-residents from Mahwah parks, the State’s complaint alleges that on June 8, 2017, all seven township council members voted in favor of the measure upon its introduction.
At a subsequent public hearing on the ordinance – on June 29, 2017 – the council members heard comments from members of the public in attendance, and also received comments from residents by way of e-mail and social media.
The complaint notes that many of the public comments offered were “overtly anti-Semitic” in nature, and that around the same time, Mahwah Police began receiving “multiple calls” from residents reporting that people who appeared to be Orthodox Jews were using the parks, although the callers did not allege any problematic conduct.
The complaint also notes that, upon approving the parks ordinance, the township created proposed signs for posting in its parks explaining that the facilities were only open to New Jersey residents, but including such disclaimers as “GUESTS OF A RESIDENT ARE PERMITTED USE” and “EMPLOYEES OF LOCAL BUSINESSES ARE PERMITTED USE.”
In addition, the State’s lawsuit recounts that, in an e-mail sent to Council President Robert Hermansen, a Mahwah resident who is not of Orthodox Jewish faith expressed concern that her mother – a New York resident – would not be able to take her grandchildren to Mahwah’s parks. Allegedly, the council president replied that the grandmother had nothing to worry about, and that the ordinance banning non-New-Jersey residents from Mahwah’s parks was not intended to address her situation.
Among other things, the complaint filed today alleges – in separate counts – that the Mahwah parks ordinance and the amended sign ordinance represent abuses of municipal power by the Mahwah township council, in violation of the First, Fourth and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
For example, the lawsuit contends, enforcement of the ban on non-New-Jersey residents using Mahwah parks would inevitably require Constitutional over-reach by Mahwah police officers seeking to determine if an individual observed using the park resided in Mahwah. Specifically, the complaint contends, police officers – absent evidence of any suspicious or unlawful conduct by the park user — would have to approach the person and require him or her to provide appropriate documentation in order to remain in the park.
“Each instance of enforcing the (parks) ordinance will subject affected persons to an unreasonable search,” the complaint asserts.
Also, in addition to counts alleging that Mahwah’s amended sign ordinance banning eruvs is unconstitutional, the complaint charges that it is tantamount to housing discrimination.
Specifically, the complaint says, a ban on eruvs – or threats of being issued summonses and fines for not removing the lechis that demarcate eruvs – would interfere with the ability of observant Orthodox Jews to live in Mahwah, thereby denying them housing on the basis of religion.
“This is an extensive complaint that lays out a variety of serious allegations and a number of legal theories, but the bottom line is very simple – the township council in Mahwah heard the angry, fear-driven voices of bigotry and acted to appease those voices,” said Attorney General Porrino.
“Our duty is to uphold the law, even when the fight might be unpopular and regardless of whether we have the winds of protest or political favor at our backs,” Porrino said. “Our message to those public officials in Mahwah who are leading or following this misguided charge is meant to be loud and clear: We intend to hold you accountable. Our message to local officials in other towns who may be plotting to engage in similar attempts to illegally exclude, is the same: We will hold you accountable as well.”
QUICK RELEASE – INVESTIGATION OF SUSPICIOUS DEATH IN PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY
October 25,2017
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Paramus NJ , The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office’s Major Crimes Unit is investigating the suspicious death of an adult female at a home on Spring Valley Road in Paramus, New Jersey. At the present time, there is one adult male suspect in custody and no additional suspects are being sought. The investigation is ongoing, including as to cause of death, and we do not anticipate releasing any additional details this evening.
Paramus NJ, Paramus Police, EMS, and Fire Company #1 responded to a rollover moving vehicle accident on the overpass of Ridgewood Avenue at Route 17 in Paramus on Tuesday morning, 10/24. The flipped vehicle was righted and removed by a wrecker. All occupants of the vehicle self extricated. No word on the nature of injuries; at least one (1) victim was observed being attended to in an ambulance at the scene.
Paramus Police report Westbound traffic will be completely closed on East Ridgewood Ave. at the Route 17 overpass until further notice due to a motor vehicle accident . E. Ridgewood Ave Closed at Paramus Rd. Until approx. 4:30 pm. Westbound now moving normally.
Paramus NJ, Bill Clinton is coming to Paramus to campaign for Phil Murphy The Democratic front-runner in New Jersey’s governor’s race today . This coincides with the latest Judicial Watch announced of the release of more than 200 conflict-of-interest reviews by State Department ethics advisers of proposed Bill Clinton speaking and consulting engagements during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state. The documents were obtained as result of a federal court order in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed against the State Department on May 28, 2013 (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:13-cv-00772)). The lawsuit is ongoing.
June 2011 documents show that the State Department approved a consulting arrangement with a company, Teneo Strategy, led by controversial Clinton Foundation adviser Doug Band. The Clintons ended the deal after only eight months, as criticism mounted over Teneo’s ties to the failed investment firm, MF Global.
Mr. Clinton’s office proposed 215 speeches around the globe. And 215 times, the State Department stated that it had “no objection.”
Mr. Clinton’s speeches included appearances in China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Central America, Europe, Turkey, Thailand, Taiwan, India and the Cayman Islands. Sponsors of the speeches included some of the world’s largest financial institutions—Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, American Express and others—as well as major players in technology, energy, health care and media. Other speech sponsors included a car dealership, casino groups, hotel operators, retailers, real estate brokers, a Panamanian air cargo company and a sushi restaurant.
“These documents are a bombshell and show how the Clintons turned the State Department into a racket to line their own pockets,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “How the Obama State Department waived hundreds of ethical conflicts that allowed the Clintons and their businesses to accept money from foreign entities and corporations seeking influence boggles the mind. That former President Clinton trotted the globe collecting huge speaking fees while his wife presided over U.S. foreign policy is an outrage. No wonder it took a court order to get these documents. One can’t imagine what foreign policy issues were mishandled as top State Department officials spent so much time facilitating the Clinton money machine.”
Under established protocols of the State Department, and supplemented by a December 2008 Memorandum of Understanding between the Clinton Foundation and Obama Presidential Transition Team, a designated ethics official from the State Department’s legal office was assigned to review any “potential or actual conflict of interest” for Mrs. Clinton while she served as secretary of state. Copies of all decisions were sent to a top adviser to Secretary Clinton, Cheryl Mills, who served as counselor and chief of staff at the Department of State.
The Washington Examiner published a report today on the documents by Judicial Watch Chief Investigative Reporter Micah Morrison and Examiner Senior Watchdog Reporter Luke Rosiak. Morrison and Rosiak note that Mr. Clinton “earned $48 million while his wife presided over U.S. foreign policy, raising questions about whether the Clintons fulfilled ethics agreements related to the Clinton Foundation during Mrs. Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State.”
According to the State Department documents:
Mr. Clinton spoke before a UBS Wealth Management audience in Chicago in April, 2012. The State Department document notes that attendees would be “approximately 300-400 ultra-high net worth clients, prospective clients, and UBS Financial Advisers.”
Mr. Clinton spoke to an event hosted by Wells Fargo in San Francisco in October, 2011. The State Department document notes that the event is “being held for Wells Fargo Private Bank and Wells Fargo Family Wealth Group clients, which are clients that have at least $5 million and $50 million in assets respectively.”
At a “mutually agreeable date” in April 2010, Mr. Clinton was due to speak at Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut. “This would be a private speech of up to 350 friends and patrons on Mohegan Sun,” the State Department document noted. “The event will not be open to the public. The event will not be publicly advertised.”
For a speech in Moscow in June 2010 sponsored by the investment bank Renaissance Capital, Mr. Clinton would address the theme of “Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States: Going Global.” The document notes that “Renaissance Capital is an investment bank focused on the emerging markets of Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and sub-Saharan Africa.”
At the Ritz Carlton in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, Mr. Clinton spoke at a March 2011 ticketed event targeting “the business community in Grand Cayman.”
The potential for conflicts of interest between Hillary Clinton’s role as Secretary of State and Bill Clinton’s international ventures grew increasingly controversial in late 2008 when the former president released a list of donors to his library and foundation in what he termed “a deal between” Obama “and Hillary.” According to an AP wire story, “Saudi Arabia gave $10 million to $25 million to the foundation. Other government donors include Norway, Kuwait, Qatar, Brunei, Oman …” CNN at the time warned that Clinton’s “complicated global business interests could present future conflicts of interest that result in unneeded headaches for the incoming commander-in-chief.”
The controversy deepened further when it was revealed that among those vetting Mrs. Clinton for the job of Secretary of State was Bill Clinton’s former deputy White House counsel Cheryl Mills, a longtime Clinton family confidant, who, the Washington Postwrote in 1999 “endeared herself to the Clintons with her never-back-down, share-nothing, don’t-give-an-inch approach …” After clearing Mrs. Clinton for the DOS job, Mills was named the incoming Secretary’s Chief of Staff. Ms. Mills was a featured speaker at Bill Clinton’s 2012 Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting.
In an April 28, 2008, ruling relating to Ms. Mills conduct as a White House official in responding to concerns about lost White House email records, Judge Royce C. Lamberth called Cheryl Mills’ participation in the matter “loathsome.” He further stated Mills was responsible for “the most critical error made in this entire fiasco… Mills’ actions were totally inadequate to address the problem.” Ms. Mills is currently on the Board of Directors of BlackRock, a leading investment firm. BlackRock is run by Larry Fink who reportedly wanted to be Treasury Secretary for Barack Obama and now, according to another report, is “angling for the job” in a Hillary Clinton administration.
North Bergen NJ, Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino announced that Timothy Grossi, former deputy director of the North Bergen Department of Public Works (DPW), pleaded guilty today to a charge that he ordered subordinate employees to run political errands while they were on duty and being paid by the township.
Grossi, 77, of Jersey City, N.J., pleaded guilty today to a charge of third-degree misapplication of entrusted property and property of government before Superior Court Judge Margaret M. Foti in Bergen County. Under the plea agreement, the state will recommend that Grossi be sentenced to five years in state prison. However, the judge indicated on the record in court that she intends to suspend the sentence because of the condition of Grossi’s health. Grossi will be permanently barred from public office or employment in New Jersey. He is scheduled for sentencing on Dec. 8.
In pleading guilty, Grossi admitted that he directed on-duty DPW workers using township vehicles to go to the county clerk’s office to perform errands related to his personal political activity in the township – and unrelated to township business – including picking up and dropping off challenger badges.
Deputy Attorneys General Cynthia Vazquez and Charles Wright prosecuted Grossi and took the guilty plea for the Division of Criminal Justice. Grossi is the fourth supervisor from the North Bergen DPW to plead guilty or be found guilty at trial in an investigation by the Division of Criminal Justice Corruption Bureau into abuses involving DPW employees being paid by North Bergen Township for work unrelated to DPW functions. On Sept. 11, 2012, former DPW Superintendent James Wiley pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit official misconduct, admitting he directed DPW employees to perform hundreds of hours of chores at his home and to work on campaigns while being paid by the township. He is awaiting sentencing. In 2015, former DPW supervisors Troy Bunero and Francis Longo were convicted at trial of second-degree charges of conspiracy and official misconduct for assigning municipal employees to work on election campaigns and complete personal chores or projects for them or their boss, Wiley. Bunero and Longo were each sentenced to five years in state prison.
“Grossi was one of the top officials in the North Bergen Department of Public Works, but this guilty plea will make him a convicted felon, just like the three supervisors under him who previously pled guilty or were convicted at trial,” said Attorney General Porrino. “By arrogantly abusing the power entrusted to him and exploiting public workers for political purposes, Grossi promoted a culture of corruption within his department, a culture we exposed through our investigation.”
“North Bergen residents pay taxes to fund essential government services, not to fund officials who misuse public resources for personal gain or political advantage,” said Director Elie Honig of the Division of Criminal Justice. “We’ll continue to protect public assets by aggressively investigating and prosecuting corrupt officials like Grossi.”
Attorney General Porrino and Director Honig noted that the Division of Criminal Justice has a toll-free Corruption Tipline 1-866-TIPS-4CJ for the public to report corruption, financial crime and other illegal activities confidentially. The public can also log on to the Division webpage at www.njdcj.org to report suspected wrongdoing confidentially
Garfield N.J , Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal hosted a conference entitled “Educators Update: Combatting Bias & HIB Incidents in Schools” it was held on Thursday, October 19, 2017 at the Venetian, 546 River Drive, Garfield, N.J. from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. This program was presented to educators, law enforcement officers, and social service professionals who interact with Bergen County youth. It was sponsored by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office (“BCPO”) and was funded solely through funds forfeited from criminal offenders.
The topics to be addressed this year include:
Bias Crimes vs. Bias Incidents
Social Media Awareness, Cyber Bullying & the Internet
Juveniles & Bias: Resources & Consequences
Recognition of Innovative School Programs
This annual SNAP conference was first held in 1991 as part of a Statewide Narcotics Action Plan from which the conference derives its title. Since then, it has continued each year in Bergen County as an opportunity for law enforcement to brief educators about issues facing local youth.
More than 400 school personnel, police officers, and social service professionals from Bergen County attended the event.
Ridgewood NJ, don’t forget tonight Monday, October 23 at 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM the Village of Ridgewood will host a District 40 candidate forum at the Village Hall in Ridgewood . The 40th Legislative District includes portions of Bergen, Essex, Morris and Passaic counties, including Allendale, Cedar Grove, Franklin Lakes, Ho-Ho-Kus, Little Falls, Midland Park, Pequannock, Pompton Lakes, Ridgewood, Riverdale, Totowa, Waldwick, Wayne, Woodland Park, and Wyckoff .
Senate candidates Republican Kristin M. Corrado, the Passaic County clerk, and Democrat Thomas Duch will debate, as will Republican Assembly candidates Christopher P. DePhillips and incumbent appointee Kevin J. Rooney and Democrats Christine Ordway and Paul Vagianos.
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