New Jersey “lags behind the pack” of other states in shining light on police misconduct, the state’s attorney general acknowledged Wednesday during a legislative hearing on law enforcement reform, urging lawmakers to bring the Garden State’s secrecy laws in line with other states.

Officials call it a longstanding dilemma that the coronavirus exposed. Though New Jersey schools were ordered closed and students were forced to learn remotely because of the pandemic, tens of thousands of young residents — many from low-income households — didn‘t have a device or internet access at home to participate in online classes.

Trenton – Legislation, which would establish the “Fair Chance in Housing Act” and would provide certain housing rights for people with criminal records, clears the Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee today. The bill is sponsored by Senate Community and Urban Affairs Chair Senator Troy Singleton.

School districts struggling to balance in-school/virtual instruction face another problem — educators, students unwilling to return to brick-and-mortar classrooms

Now that administration has done a major reworking of earlier legislation based on deal between Murphy and Sweeney, new bill is expected to sail through both houses of the Legislature

There is a moratorium on evictions during the pandemic, but landlords have continued to file cases. Housing advocates fear a surge of evictions when the moratorium lifts

Young adults are the fastest-growing age group of residents testing positive for the coronavirus in New Jersey, even as the outbreak here has slowed dramatically in recent months, the state’s top health official warned Monday.

A plan by New Jersey’s attorney general to identify state troopers and other police officers accused of serious misconduct has been put on hold amid legal challenges from the state’s most powerful police unions.

The lunch series is part of a broader effort by the senator to fight food insecurity across the region and the state.

A new poll from Yale University, George Mason University and Climate Nexus found that at least 7 in 10 New Jerseyans support the proposals included in the New Jersey Clean Energy Equity Act currently on the agenda for the Senate Environment Committee meeting on July 16. The bill aims to help low-income New Jersey families benefit from solar, storage and energy efficiency.