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Sen. Shirley Turner (D-Mercer) first introduced legislation in 2014.
Three weeks after Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation requiring New Jersey police to wear body cameras, the Legislature on Thursday voted to pay for the equipment touted as both a way to protect people from improper policing and protect officers from wrongful accusations of brutality.
Murphy signed two bills last month. One mandated that officers wear cameras most of the time when they are interacting with the public; the second set rules for using the cameras, when they can be turned off and for storing the recordings they made. The camera mandate was subject to funding from the Legislature.
N.J. law is meant to protect judges after horrific killing. Implementing it won’t be easy.
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County and municipal clerks are asking for guidance on how to implement Daniel’s Law, state legislation that makes it a crime to post addresses or phone numbers of current and former judges, prosecutors and law enforcement officers.
None take issue with the goal of the new requirements. After all, the bill (A1649) was signed into law last month after U.S. District Judge Esther Salas’s only son, Daniel Anderl, was fatally shot in July at her New Jersey home. Her husband was also injured at the home after a gunman found the judge’s address online.