Erik Peterson Archives

Assembly panel advances bill advocates fear could shield police records

June 2, 2021 5:20 pm

The Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee advanced a bill that would bar the release of personal information belonging to victims of and witnesses to violent crimes under the Open Public Records Act over the concerns of transparency advocates who...

Report: Judge rules Department of Health must release county-level data

May 26, 2021 10:24 am

A Superior Court judge on Tuesday ordered the New Jersey Department of Health to release county-level virus data in response to an Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request filed by Assemblyman Erik Peterson (R-Franklin). Superior Court Judge Mary Jacobson ruled...

Edison hires ex-prosecutor to aid their cooperation with grand jury probe of racist flyer

April 2, 2021 4:55 pmApril 3, 2021 3:24 pm

Edison has hired a high-level former prosecutor to help guide the township counsel through the Attorney General Gurbir Grewal’s probe of a racist flyer in the 2017 election. Vaughn McKoy, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and director of the state...

Lawmaker tells Grewal to empanel grand jury to solve Edison racist flyer cold case

March 19, 2021 2:18 pmMarch 19, 2021 8:04 pm

Assemblyman Erik Peterson (R-Franklin) is accusing Attorney General Gurbir Grewal of sidestepping his call for an investigation into a 40-month-old unsolved mystery involving a racist flyer in a 2017 Edison local election and wants prosecutors to convene a grand jury...

Edison Democratic officials chide Grewal for failure to solve racist flyer cold case

March 18, 2021 1:13 am

Seeking “justice and clarity,” seven elected officeholders in Edison – all Democrats — have admonished Attorney General Gurbir Grewal for his failure to solve a 40-month-old cold case involving racist flyers in a 2017 local election. Mayor Thomas Lankey and...

Grewal denies knowing lawyer said to be mastermind behind racist Edison mailer

March 11, 2021 12:45 pmMarch 18, 2021 12:07 am

Attorney General Gurbir Grewal denied knowing a politically connected lawyer whom an Edison councilman identified as a mastermind behind a racist flyer sent during the town’s 2017 School Board campaign in a letter to Assemblyman Erik Peterson (R-Franklin) Wednesday. “I...

Peterson demands Grewal recuse from racist flyer investigation

March 9, 2021 3:23 pmMarch 9, 2021 6:55 pm

Assemblyman Erik Peterson (R-Franklin) demanded Attorney General Gurbir Grewal recuse himself from an investigation into a racist mailer in Edison in letters to Grewal and Gov. Phil Murphy Tuesday. “I am writing to demand that you recuse yourself from this...