New Jersey Officials Award $4 M to Law Enforcement for Body Cameras

Newark, NJ- In the very near future, most interactions between the New Jersey state police and the public will soon be recorded by body cameras now that authorities have allocated $4 million dollars to state, county and municipal law enforcement agencies to purchase the equipment. (more…)

Newark, NJ- As Congress works to ensure so-called sanctuary cities detain undocumented immigrants for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an appeals court ruled the federal agency must have probable cause to issue immigration detainers and hold individuals they suspect of being undocumented. (more…)

Newark, NJ-In the case, the State of New Jersey vs. Edwin Urbina, the New Jersey Supreme Court, reversed a teenager’s manslaughter conviction after determining a lower court shouldn’t have accepted his plea bargain since he maintained throughout the course of his case that he acted out of self-defense. (more…)

Newark, NJ- In an 7-1 decision, handed down on down on June 1st, the U.S. Supreme Court made it more difficult for prosecutors to convict people for making threats on Facebook and other social media platforms by reversing federal convictions of a Pennsylvania man accused of threatening his estranged wife....

Newark, NJ-A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision was a win for immigrants by clarifying when a state level drug paraphernalia charge is a removable offense under federal law. In Mellouli vs. Lynch, which was decided on June 1st, Supreme Court justices ordered immigration officials to reverse the deportation of legal...