An Elizabeth Police vehicle is parked near the Oakwood Plaza apartments, in Elizabeth, New Jersey, U.S., September 2, 2021. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
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(Reuters) - The New Jersey Supreme Court decided earlier this month that the public has a broad right to access certain information about serious police misconduct under common law, a landmark ruling that stands to deter police abuse and lays out a novel pathway to improve police accountability in other states.
The court on March 14 held 6-0 that the Union County Prosecutor’s Office must release an internal affairs report that found the director of the Elizabeth Police Department had made racist and misogynistic comments about his staff over the course of many years. James Cosgrove, the former civilian head of the department for more than two decades, resigned in 2019 soon after the investigation was completed.
The probe began after an attorney made a complaint about Cosgrove on behalf of police department employees, including allegations of sexual harassment and that Cosgrove routinely interfered in internal affairs investigations, the New York Times reported in April 2019.
After Cosgrove’s resignation, Richard Rivera, a former cop turned police transparency...
INDIANAPOLIS — Marion County Clerk Kate Sweeney Bell announced that county election officials are pushing back against viral social media posts falsely claiming that ballots marked by poll workers...