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Bill vetoed by Christie getting another look
NEPTUNE – The controversial state debt reporting bill that recently threatened Gov. Chris Christie’s perfect record of thwarting veto override votes is getting another look from lawmakers.
Asm. Singleton: GPS Monitoring Would Give Domestic Violence Victims Some Stability
A domestic violence bill was introduced five years ago to crack down on perpetrators and protect victims. That bill was vetoed by Gov. Chris Christie, who ordered the attorney general’s office to study how technology could track domestic violence offenders. Its report says, “No law enforcement or court personnel can control the actions of the victim,” who “could choose to abandon her GPS in favor of reconciling with the offender, give her device to a proxy for the purpose of retaliation or revenge or simply forget to carry her device.” Which sounds to the bill’s sponsors like “blaming the victim.” Assemblyman Troy Singleton (D-7) told NJTV News Anchor Mary Alice Williams that he has some concern with the report because it says victims would somehow use the GPS monitoring for retaliatory action.
Domestic violence report finally comes, gets panned
It was five months past the blown deadline on a task force report on domestic violence by the time legislators and advocates announced they would hold a news conference calling out the delay.
N.J. Lawmakers Push Bill Aiming To Curtail Patent Trolls
A committee of the New Jersey Legislature is urging passage of legislation that would make it easier for companies to fight off lawsuits filed by so-called "patent trolls."
N.J. Assembly panel OKs patent troll bill; civil justice group opposes state fix
RENTON, N.J. (Legal Newsline) – A New Jersey Assembly panel approved Thursday legislation aimed at preventing individuals or companies from making false patent infringement claims in the state.
EDITORIAL: State GOP lawmakers need some backbone
For a governor who likes to trumpet his record on the transparency of his administration, Gov. Chris Christie has a funny way of showing it. And so do his GOP enablers in the Statehouse.
This week, feckless Republican lawmakers once again could not bring themselves to override a Christie veto. Since Christie took office in 2010, the Legislature has sought to override his vetoes 57 times. It has failed to do so 57 times, mostly because of bloc voting by Republicans, many of whom initially supported the bills Christie vetoed.
NJ assemblyman blasts Lisa’s Law report
New Jersey Assemblyman Troy Singleton (D-Mount Laurel) is blasting a report by the state attorney general’s office that raises concerns about the cost and reliability of a pilot program, called Lisa’s Law, that would track certain domestic violence offenders using GPS devices.
Singleton & Advocates Call for Renewed Action on ‘Lisa’s Law’ At Start of Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Reintroducing Bill after Long-Delayed Report Finally Issued by Executive Branch
(TRENTON) – Assemblyman Troy Singleton (D-Burlington) issued a multimedia package Thursday of a news conference he held with domestic violence prevention advocates in which he criticized a long-delayed report from the Executive Branch and promised to reintroduce domestic violence monitoring legislation, colloquially known as “Lisa’s Law.”
“Lisa’s Law” was a groundbreaking measure Singleton sponsored last year that would have authorized New Jersey courts to order GPS monitoring of certain domestic violence offenders and would have required victims be notified when the offender was within a certain proximity.
Singleton Will Reintroduce Lisa's Law
A New Jersey lawmaker plans to again push for a law to let judges order electronic monitoring of domestic violence offenders and notify victims when an offender is nearby.
Governor Christie conditionally vetoed Lisa's Law in January, putting it on hold while the state attorney general determined whether the monitoring technology was available.
2 N.J. assemblymen re-introduce bill monitoring domestic abuse offenders
Two South Jersey assemblymen re-introduced a bill Thursday that would create a pilot program for monitoring domestic violence offenders — despite a report by the Attorney Generals Office that raises concerns about cost and how it would work.
The bill’s sponsors, Assemblymen Troy Singleton, D-Burlington, and Ron Dancer, R-Ocean, say they still believe there’s a way to use a GPS monitoring program to protect victims and alert them when an offender is close by. Both the victim and offender would have to be equipped with a GPS device.