Essex County NJ Correctional Facility and Civilian Oversight

Public Comment 9/9/2020

Item K37 is to approve spending to purchase new firearms for the Department of Corrections. We as residents have been calling to defund the police, and really the entire mass incarceration apparatus, reflecting a desire to shift that spending to proactively address the root causes of…

Public Comment 7/9/2020

On Resolution 37 the text is now pulled down, so I hope it’s still on the agenda because it’s important that we all affirm, at all levels of government, society, and culture that Black Lives Matter. It’s a big driver in my pushing for the ECCF Task Force, as well as the work around the…

Public Comment 6/10/2020

A video of George Floyd’s 6-year-old daughter has circulated where she marvels “Daddy changed the world” while looking across a protest in honor of his life. We can only hope those words ring true. Whether it does, will ultimately come down to whether people who look like me will…

Public Comment 5/27/2020

Requesting responses:
1. Please share the most recent results of antibody testing at ECCF. I know ICE stropped you from sharing the data about their prisoners but what about County and Marshal’s inmates? In the last update I could find from a month ago, 70% of ICE prisoners held in…

Public Comment from 5/13/2020

In a response to a prior public comment question, the Administration said that the costs of holding ICE Detainees in ECCF exactly matched the revenue associated with that contract with ICE. Building on that information, the net impact of the ICE contract to the County in terms…

Public Comment 01/07/2020

A few questions on various topics, all requesting a formal response.

The Star Ledger reported this week that two ECCF guards were charged with falsifying records after video evidence showed they hadn't done the rounds they reported doing. This highlights why…

Civilian Oversight at Essex County Jail Public Comment 11/13/2019

I’m happy to be able to say that I got responses to my questions from Oct 23 this week. Thank you to Freeholder President Gill and the Freeholder staff for ensuring that I got responses. I’m sad to say that they’re…

Civilian Oversight at Essex County Jail Public Comment 11/06/2019

Since we’ll have time later to discuss the civilian task force ordinance itself I wanted to raise a few other points now.