Mayor Smith visits state budget chair to discuss financial needs

Mayor Smith visits state budget chair to discuss financial needs - Bayonne, New Jersey Local News Bayonne Now - NJ.com:

"Mayor Smith visits state budget chair to discuss financial needs
by Bayonne Now

Mayor Mark A. Smith announced that he met this week with Assemblyman Louis D. Greenwald, chair of the NJ General Assembly Budget Committee.

Smith said, 'I sought this meeting with Assemblyman Lou Greenwald to make him aware of Bayonne's needs during this time of economic difficulty. As Mayor, I know that Bayonne depends on a positive relationship with state officials to get the policies and assistance we need to move forward.'

Smith continued, 'Lou Greenwald has had a distinguished record as Budget Chairman and as a sponsor of important legislation. I look forward to continuing to work with him on issues of concern to Bayonne.'

The mayor added, 'Assemblyman Greenwald will be helpful in the coming days as Bayonne seeks partners to assist with the redevelopment of the Peninsula and other important projects.'

Smith said that Greenwald would be returning to Bayonne in the near future.
Greenwald has sponsored legislation to lower auto insurance rates, and a bill to extend eligibility requirements for veterans to receive the Distinguished Service Medal.

Greenwald was the author of legislation creating the Amber Alert system, through which reports of abducted children are broadcast quickly on television and radio. He sponsored a law revising the state's charity care formula to provide greater reimbursement to hospitals. Greenwald also led the effort to establish a nationally designated cancer center in southern New Jersey.
Greenwald is serving his seventh term in the Assembly."

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New Jersey's attorney general has ordered training of the county prosecutors on the states Amber Alerts System

State orders changes in child abduction cases
Courier-Post staff

New Jersey's attorney general has ordered all county prosecutors to designate "child abduction response team leaders" to oversee missing-child cases.

The directive is to take effect on Jan. 1, said Attorney General Anne Milgram.

The team leaders -- two per county -- will receive standardized training for conducting missing child investigations, said Milgram. They will work with the State Police missing persons unit and other law enforcement agencies.

"Time can be lost and opportunities wasted when law enforcement responds to a report of a missing child without a plan," Milgram said. The new program "will ensure that there is a response plan carefully put together by trained law enforcement officers," she added.

Experts from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children have begun a weeklong training session for new leaders.

Gloucester County Prosecutor Sean Dalton, an early advocate for the team approach, said Milgram's order "will put New Jersey in the forefront of ensuring the safety of our children."

State Police will continue to be immediately notified of Amber Alert requests from local police departments. However, the State Police, in turn, will notify team leaders in the county that submitted the request.



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