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Governor Christie vetoes residency requirement bill for police and firefighters!
On Monday, November 9, Governor Chris Christie vetoed S-2783/A-4265, legislation that would have required municipalities, county governments, and regional divisions to establish residency requirements for police and firefighters. Both the New Jersey Fraternal Order of...
Shame, shame, shame on you, Quentin Tarantino!
The New Jersey Fraternal Order of Police has denounced and wholly condemned recent anti-police statements made by film director Quentin Tarantino. NJFOP President Robert W. Fox is calling on his members to boycott Tarantino’s films, including his Christmas-bound...
NJFOP President and Executive President attend NY’s Cigar Night/Pig Roast
NJFOP President Bob Fox and NJFOP Executive Vice President Bob Gries attended the September 12 NY State FOP Cigar Night/Pig Roast. All proceeds from this event go to the NY State Survivors Aid Program. Here Fox and Gries join NY State President Mike Essig in front of...
NJFOP endorses Assembly candidates (Revised article)
(Hamilton, NJ) Brothers and Sisters, this year the full New Jersey Assembly is up for election. That's 80 seats of the 120 who serve in the New Jersey Legislature. The Senate is not up for election until 2017. NJFOP Board of Trustees held its September 23rd meeting at...
Statement of FOP Chuck Canterbury on Recent Violence Targeting Law Enforcement
News Item: STATEMENT OF FOP PRESIDENT CHUCK CANTERBURY ON RECENT VIOLENCE TARGETING LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS 09/02/2015 This has been a brutal and tragic few weeks for our nation's law enforcement officers. In just two weeks, five law enforcement officers were...
FOP Legislative Update for July, 2015
FOP LEGISLATIVE UPDATE FOR JULY 2015
New Jersey Pension Update
NEW JERSEY PENSION UPDATE (Prepared by Peter Guzzo, NJ State FOP Lobbyist) On June 9th., the New Jersey State Supreme Court ruled in a 5-2 decision that although the Governor signed a law in 2011 (known as Chapter 78) to make the public employee’s pension system whole...