GOVERNOR ANNOUNCES RECOMMENDATIONS OF ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON POLICE STANDARDS

TRENTON – The Governor’s Advisory Committee on Police Standards today recommended that the State of New Jersey join in a motion to terminate the 1999 consent decree concerning racial profiling.

An executive summary and the full 118-page report is available at http://www.nj.gov/governor.

In August 2006, Governor Corzine signed Executive Order 29 creating the advisory panel. Members of the panel are James E. Johnson (chair); Larry L. Bembry, Assistant Corporation Counsel of Jersey City; Ellen Brown, New Jersey Institute for Social Justice; Michelle Carroll, President, Survivors of the Triangle; Kevin P. Donovan, former FBI Special Agent in Charge; Reverend Reginald Style Floyd, Allen AME Church; Jonathan L. Goldstein, former United States Attorney; James E. Harris, President, NJ State Conference of NAACP; Jerome C. Harris, Jr., Chairman, New Jersey Black Issues Convention; Carmelo V. Huertas, Retired Major, New Jersey State Police; Reverend J. Stanley Justice, Mt. Zion AME Church; Samer E. Khalaf, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee; Carlos F. Ortiz, former Assistant United States Attorney; Michael A. Rambert, President, Garden State Bar Association; Mitchell C. Sklar, Executive Director, New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police; Edwin H. Stier, former Federal and New Jersey State Prosecutor; Scott Louis Weber, Patton Boggs LLP; Theresa L. Yang, Immediate Past President, Asian-Pacific American Lawyers Association; and Attorney General Anne Milgram.

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