New Jersey Public Safety Officers Law Blog

07/28/2025

The "Bill Ricci World Trade Center Rescue, Recovery, and Cleanup Operations Act" was signed into law on July 8, 2019. The law permitted 9/11 first

03/18/2025

A New York Corrections Officers strike has ended after a three week standoff between Correctional Officers and the State of New York. According to union

05/20/2024

Police licensing has begun in earnest and one of the areas that will be targeted by the Police Training Commission are domestic violence matters.

05/16/2024

With there being a dirth in qualified applicants seeking to become sworn law enforcement officers, we have been witnessing officers moving from one department to another seeking better terms and conditions of employment. With that being the case, the expense of training, and who is going to pay for it, has become a bit of a hot button issue. My partner, Don Barbati, covers the subject area very well in this blog post.

One of the mechanisms that law enforcement officers and unions have at the negotiations table is the characterization of or "free agent" mentality. In

04/24/2024

04/19/2024

Often in disciplinary actions the employer will propose, as part of a settlement to resolve administrative charges, that the employee sign a last chance

04/14/2024

In James Meyers v. State Health Benefits Commission, (New Jersey Supreme Court Slip Opinion A-27-22) (087633) the New Jersey Supreme Court examined a New

04/12/2024

Many times, individuals apply for positions in law enforcement and are fortunate enough to be certified to the eligible list for the position. In simple

04/08/2024

In a recently issued ruling by New Jersey’s Appellate Division, the Court upheld an earlier ruling by a superior court judge holding that an officer did

03/25/2024

An Ounce of Prevention is Worth Far More than a Pound of Cure….

03/21/2024

When a New Jersey law enforcement officer or firefighter is suspended without pay pending the outcome of a disciplinary action, namely, termination

03/18/2024

For those of you in the know, it comes as no shock that the Licensing of sworn law enforcement officers in the State of New Jersey began on January 1,