Verlina Reynolds Jackson Archives

Amended measure allowing officers to view body camera footage when drafting reports clears both chambers

June 24, 2021 7:16 pmJune 24, 2021 8:24 pm

Both chambers of the legislature approved a bill allowing police officers to review body camera footage before drafting reports by wide bipartisan margins over the objections of civil rights groups who feared it would enable bad actors Thursday. The assembly...

Bill barring ICE contracts in state, county prisons up in Assembly Committee Wednesday

May 27, 2021 2:45 pm

The Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee will weigh a bill barring New Jersey’s correctional facilities from adopting contracts to hold detainees for Immigration and Customs Enforcement Wednesday. Such contracts have drawn scrutiny from immigration advocates for years, but a...

Assembly panel advances bill loosening dispensary ownership restrictions

May 5, 2021 5:02 pmMay 6, 2021 4:18 am

The Assembly Health Committee advanced a bill loosening ownership restrictions on medical marijuana dispensaries in a 10-2 vote Wednesday. Existing law allows individuals and businesses to hold only a single marijuana cultivation, manufacturing or dispensary permit. The bipartisan bill, sponsored...

Sumter elected chair of Legislative Black Caucus

April 1, 2021 5:45 pm

Assemblywoman Shavonda Sumter (D-Paterson) was elected chair of the Legislative Black Caucus Thursday, replacing longtime chair State Sen. Ron Rice (D-Newark). State Sen. Troy Singleton (D-Palmyra) and Assemblywoman Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (D-Trenton) will serve as vice chairs, the position Sumter held...

Bill barring police from polling places clears Assembly, stalls in Senate

March 25, 2021 7:22 pm

The Assembly advanced a measure barring police officers from loitering within 100 feet of a polling place or drop box Thursday, but the bill stalled in the Senate despite a past version clearing the chamber in a narrow vote last...

Democratic women legislators compare Ciattarelli to Christie on health, family planning funding

March 22, 2021 9:34 amMarch 22, 2021 10:46 am

All 28 Democratic women in the New Jersey Legislature today slammed Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli’s for promising to remove funding cuts to women’s health and family planning services if he defeats Gov. Phil Murphy in the general election. The...

High-profile billboard ramps up pressure for undocumented residents to get pandemic relief

December 7, 2020 3:55 pmDecember 7, 2020 8:14 pm

A billboard that went up on the New Jersey Turnpike today could have an intended audience of one as advocates for legislation that would provide pandemic relief assistance to undocumented New Jersey workers. A grassroots immigrant rights organization, Make the...