A 496 New Jersey General Assembly · 2026-2027 Regular Session

Requires county prosecutor to initiate municipal, county, and higher education law enforcement internal affairs investigations.

This bill requires that when a petition for a temporary extreme risk protective order (which can temporarily remove firearms from someone posing a danger) is filed against a law enforcement officer, the officer's employer must immediately forward the petition to the county prosecutor. The county prosecutor must then initiate an internal affairs investigation into the officer's conduct. This applies only to petitions filed under this specific law involving law enforcement officers, not to general internal affairs cases. It does not alter the standard process for these petitions or other types of investigations.
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Introduced Jan 13, 2026 Last action Jan 13, 2026
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Jan 13, 2026
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Introduced, Referred to Assembly Public Safety and Preparedness Committee
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Gabe Rodriguez
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