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Just how tense is the 37th District Democratic primary?
Bergen County Dem Chair Paul Juliano
responded to Assemblymember Valerie Vainieri Huttle’s letter to him earlier this week with one of his own Thursday, and he accused her of just about the worst thing you can say to a progressive: Acting like Donald Trump.
Teaneck just banned facial recognition technology for police. Here s why Isaiah McCall, NorthJersey.com
TEANECK The Township Council has banned the use of facial recognition software by police in a unanimous vote, joining a nascent movement to banish a technology that has been criticized as potentially biased.
Even as private companies continue to create huge databases of images from social media, and facial recognition is employed for surveillance and airport passenger screening, a growing body of evidence shows that the algorithms do a poorer job of identifying women and Black and Asian faces.
In January, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal barred police statewide from using a facial recognition app from a company called Clearview AI, which The New York Times reported had amassed a database of billions of photos from sites like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. The company licenses its product to police departments.
NorthJersey.com wins 35 awards in annual state journalism contest
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The Record and NorthJersey.com won 35 awards in the New Jersey Press Association s annual Better Newspaper Contest, including top honors for extensive coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in New Jersey.
Singled out was the Loved and Lost series, a statewide media collaboration with the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University that set out to name and celebrate the life of every New Jersey resident lost to COVID-19. That was recognized with a first-place Innovation Award.
Photographers Amy Newman and Michael Karas won first-place awards for their photos and video of the Madonna Multinational Home for Funerals in Passaic, depicting its struggles as it was overwhelmed by COVID-19 funerals. Newman also won the NJPA s Best of Show award for her photos of the funeral home.
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New Jersey FMBA President Ed Donnelly seems like a formidable potential candidate for state Senate
in the 21st District. He’s a powerful guy as both head of one of the state’s big public workers unions and chair of the Police and Firemen’s Retirement System. And it’s another one of those once-safely Republican districts that got a lot friendlier-looking to Democrats in the Trump era.
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