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Office of the Governor | Governor Murphy Signs Legislation Requiring NJ Public Schools to Develop Threat Assessment Teams
TRENTON – Governor Phil Murphy right now signed A4075/3229 [t.e2ma.net] into regulation, requiring the board of training in every college district and board of trustees in every constitution college or renaissance college within the state to develop and undertake a coverage for the institution of a menace evaluation crew at their respective faculties.
Menace evaluation groups present college lecturers, directors, and different workers with help in figuring out college students of concern, assessing these college students’ threat for partaking in violence or different dangerous actions, and delivering intervention methods to handle the danger of hurt for college kids who pose a possible security threat to stop focused violence within the college and making certain a protected and safe college surroundings that enhances the educational expertise for all members of the varsity neighborhood.
“Protecting public areas protected from any type of violence or dangerous actions, particularly in our faculties, is of the utmost significance to me and this administration,” stated Governor Murphy. “It’s my hope that these menace evaluation groups will assist college students and college workers really feel protected and out of hurt’s means when they’re at college, and for college kids who’re thought of to be a menace to obtain the much-needed assist they want at such an important time of their lives.”
Tips for menace evaluation groups in every college district, constitution college, and renaissance college can be developed by the New Jersey Division of Schooling in session with state regulation enforcement businesses and the New Jersey Workplace of Homeland Safety and Preparedness.
“Nobody higher understands the vulnerabilities of New Jersey’s college communities than those that work there each day, together with our lecturers, directors, college counselors, college security specialists, and useful resource officers,” stated Dr. Angelica Allen-McMillan, Performing Commissioner of Schooling. “Creating complete menace evaluation groups, comprised of those people, ensures elevated consciousness of at-risk behaviors and informs strategic intervention for these behaviors which will pose a security threat. The institution of menace evaluation groups will end in safer college environments.”
“We aren’t solely first responders, we’re first preventers,” stated Director Laurie Doran of New Jersey Workplace of Homeland Safety and Preparedness. “The institution of menace evaluation groups in public faculties will equip these communities with the assets they should forestall violence and assist guarantee the security of scholars and educators. NJOHSP continues to prioritize college safety efforts with our regulation enforcement companions and the New Jersey Division of Schooling.”
The menace evaluation crew, which is to be established by a board of training or board of trustees in every district, shall be multidisciplinary in membership, together with:
- A college psychologist, college counselor, college social employee, or different college worker with experience in pupil counseling;
- A instructing workers member;
- A college principal or different senior college administrator;
- A protected faculties useful resource officer or college worker who serves as a college liaison to regulation enforcement; and
- The designated college security specialist.
“In latest historical past, we now have seen far too many tragic occasions, ensuing within the lack of harmless lives,” stated Senate Majority Chief M. Teresa Ruiz. “Equipping adults with the instruments essential to establish college students as a possible menace can improve the power of our districts and faculties to assist establish any dangers earlier than an act of violence happens. I wish to thank the Governor for signing this vital piece of laws into regulation. We should take all crucial measures, together with the supply of psychological well being helps, providers, and assets, to stop these tragedies from taking place.”
“Tragically, we now have seen all too many instances that our college students are typically uncovered to potential risks from fellow college students. This laws will assist our faculties establish college students who could also be thought of a menace to themselves and to others earlier than it’s too late,” stated Senator James Seaside, sponsor of S-2765. “Sadly, that is the fact of our often-violent world. As we head into a brand new college 12 months in a couple of weeks, we need to give our faculties’ directors, counselors and safety groups all of the instruments we are able to to maintain our college students protected.”
“I actually, really imagine that if we concentrate on college students which are in disaster earlier than they trigger hurt to themselves or others, we may be essentially the most impactful,” stated State Meeting Schooling Committee Chair Pamela Lampitt. “The brand new regulation will assist us decide the precise folks across the desk to have a dialog on tips on how to diffuse college threats once they come up.”
“One of many objectives of the menace evaluation groups is to avert harmful incidents which will come from potential college threats,” stated Assemblyman William F. Moen, Jr. “With this sort of program in place, we might tackle not solely the bigger points dealing with faculties however a number of the smaller points as properly earlier than they construct into one thing extra.”
“Making a menace evaluation crew in every college district prepares educators and directors to deal with any considerations now and sooner or later,” stated Assemblywoman Gabriela Mosquera. “A crew of college psychologists, social employees, counselors, principals, security specialists, and police liaisons will have the ability to pool their assets to establish college students who’re thought of to be a menace to themselves or others. Their efforts will lend to stronger and safer college communities all through the State.”
This regulation will take impact instantly for the 2022-2023 college 12 months.
Christa M. Compton, Chatham, N.J., was elected June 7 to serve a six-year term as bishop of the New Jersey Synod of the ELCA. The election took place during the synod assembly, June 5-7 at the Hilton East Brunswick Hotel & Executive Meeting Center in East Brunswick, N.J.
Compton was elected on the fifth ballot, with 235 votes. Maristela Freiberg, assistant to the bishop and director for evangelical mission in the New Jersey Synod, received 116 votes.
The bishop-elect has served as pastor of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, Chatham, since 2013.
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NJ Gov Phil Murphy preparing for World Cup 1 year out: 'Most-watched event in human history'
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JERSEY CITY, NJ – Wednesday marks exactly one year until the 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off in North America, and the party got started in the state where the final will be played.
It’s the first time since 1994 that the continent is playing host to the most popular sporting event in the world, and Phil Murphy’s New Jersey will be the site of the final.
MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford will host eight matches total, including five in the group stage and games in both the rounds of 32 and 16.
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In speaking to the media on Wednesday at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, the location of the official 2026 World Cup fan festival, Murphy predicted that the final at the home of the New York Giants and Jets will be “the most-watched event in human history.”
And for those in attendance, “the MetLife experience will be outstanding,” said Murphy.
“It will be secure and safe, easy to get in and out, great experience for the fans once they’re in the stadium,” Murphy continued.
“This is what it’s all about. A bunch of preparation, and now being able to show our vision and get the reaction we got, which was excitement, energy, interest. This is what it’s all about,” added Alex Lasry, CEO of the NYNJ Host Committee.
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“It’s real. We’re a year out, and to see the reaction from everyone of how much excitement there is for the World Cup makes us that much more excited.”
Liberty State Park is the home to tremendous views of the New York City skyline and the Statue of Liberty while filled with greenery, making it the perfect spot for fans to gather. So, while Murphy will undoubtedly be at all eight World Cup games played at MetLife, there is a further responsibility to make sure that fans are entertained for the other 96 contests played in the other 15 host stadiums.
“The fan fest, it’s going to be beyond words. Twenty-two screens, capacity of 45,000. When we’re not at MetLife, we’ll be here watching. Those experiences are extraordinary. This will be no exception,” Murphy added.
2026 FIFA World Cup promotion is displayed at MetLife Stadium after an announcement by FIFA on Feb. 5, 2024, in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Eduardo MunozAlvarez/VIEW press via Getty Images)
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“When you look at the ability for people to get here from New York and New Jersey, the iconic skyline and views from this, and then, when you’re just thinking of where to put on the party, there’s nowhere better,” Lasry said. “It’s a unique place to put on the most iconic fan fest that we’re looking at. To be able to do that in New Jersey with the view of New York, it kind of brings together the partnership.”
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Sean Higgins, Sherrill’s director of communications, said the campaign will focus on introducing Sherrill to the entire state over the next several months.
“She has dedicated her life to serving the people of this country, and the people of New Jersey,” he said., “Mikie is going to be a governor for everybody, she’s going to build more affordable housing and bring costs down, she’s going to deliver.”
Higgins said Sherrill is very different from Ciattarelli.
“Mikie is for New Jersey, and Ciattarelli is for Trump,” he said. “She’s ruthlessly focused on getting results, and I think that stands in stark contrast to Jack Ciattarelli, who is really the ghost of elections past and hasn’t really delivered a thing for New Jersey.”
At Sherrill’s headquarters, inside the ballroom of the Westin Governor Morris Hotel in Morristown, supporter Roman Hirniak, of Wharton, said he was happy that his candidate won.
“I am a proud member of the Ukrainian-American community in New Jersey,” he said. “Congresswoman Sherrill has been one of our loudest voices on Capitol Hill, she has earned my support because she is a decent human being that understands what leadership should be like on the gubernatorial level.”
Another supporter, David Genova, of Montclair, said he’s backed Sherrill since she first ran for Congress.
“She’s been very supportive of Montclair, especially during the pandemic,” he said. “I think she’s on the right and practical side of most issues and I think she’s going to be a great governor., Mikie knows how to get things done.”
During the primary campaign the gubernatorial candidates spent more than $122 million, making it the most expensive primary race in state history.
Micah Rasmussen, the director of the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics at Rider University, said recent polling projected Rep. Sherrill as the frontrunner, but a winner was hard to predict.
“We just did away with the county ballot line [in New Jersey] which gave preferential treatment to candidates who had the [major political] endorsements,” he said. “This time candidates were on their own, they had to make their own case, and that meant we couldn’t really model how this election was going to turn out.”
He said voter turnout for primary elections in New Jersey is usually low, and in this race voters were choosing between six different candidates, making it harder to predict voting trends.
“That means that the number of votes it takes to win the race is pretty low, and that at least raised the possibility that any of them could have gotten across that finish line,” he said.
Four years ago in the primary election for governor, about 12% of registered Democrats voted. Less than 400,000 ballots were cast in that race.
The general election will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 4.
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