The pandemic has made a growing problem even worse: A shortage of candidates for teaching positions. Making it easier to recruit from out of state may help.
Proposed legislation that seeks to prevent the home addresses and phone numbers of judges and prosecutors from being published online has been expanded to set up protocols for having such posts taken down.
An Assembly committee voted Monday to advance long-discussed legislation that would create a second category of NJ driver’s licenses that would be available to immigrants not legally in the country.
New Jersey is toughening its law against wage theft, in which people typically in low-pay jobs don’t receive the wages or benefits to which they’re entitled.
Expungement of criminal records advanced easily, but a vote on switching to a civil fine for possession was shelved, revived, then advanced without discussion.
By the end of March, the Legislature is likely to pass a bill significantly extending the statute of limitations for sex-abuse civil lawsuits in New Jersey.