Bill Text: NJ A4314 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Exempts certain persons from prohibition on posting certain information regarding law enforcement officers on Internet.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-11-14 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee [A4314 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-A4314-Introduced.html

ASSEMBLY, No. 4314

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED NOVEMBER 14, 2016

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  GORDON M. JOHNSON

District 37 (Bergen)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Exempts certain persons from prohibition on posting certain information regarding law enforcement officers on Internet.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  


An Act concerning law enforcement officers and amending P.L.2015, c.226.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.  Section 2 of P.L.2015, c.226 (C.47:1-17) is amended to read as follows:

     2.    [A] An employee of a State or local governmental agency shall not knowingly post or publish on the Internet the home address or unpublished home telephone number of any [retired] law enforcement officer or retired law enforcement officer without first obtaining the written permission of that law enforcement officer or retired law enforcement officer.  This provision shall not apply to an employee of a State or local governmental agency who posts or publishes on the Internet, in the course of employment, a public or government record under P.L.1963, c.73 (C.47:1A-1 et seq.)

(cf:  P.L.2015, c.226, s.2)

 

     2.  This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill exempts certain governmental employees from the prohibition on posting on the Internet a law enforcement officer's address or telephone number. 

     Under current law, State and local governmental agencies are prohibited from knowingly posting or publishing on the Internet the home address or unpublished home telephone number of any law enforcement officer or retired law enforcement officer without first obtaining the written permission of that officer.

     Under this bill, that provision would not apply to an employee of a State or local governmental agency who posts or publishes on the Internet, in the course of employment, a public record under the Open Public Records Act (OPRA).

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