ASSEMBLY JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

ASSEMBLY, No. 5905

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED:  DECEMBER 4, 2025

      The Assembly Judiciary Committee reports favorably Assembly Bill No. 5905.

This bill requires the Judiciary and law enforcement to notify the State Parole Board (SPB) when a parolee violates a domestic violence restraining order. The bill establishes procedures for reflecting a person’s status as a parolee in the domestic violence central registry, and requires the Judiciary and law enforcement agency to notify the SPB when a parolee is charged with a violation.

     Under current law, the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) is required to maintain a domestic violence central registry of any person who has had a domestic violence restraining order entered against them, who has been charged with a crime or offense involving domestic violence, and who has been charged with a violation of a court order involving domestic violence.  Current law does not, however, establish procedures for notifying the SPB when a parolee is charged with violating a domestic violence restraining order.

     Under the bill, SPB is required to notify the AOC and the AOC is required to update the registry to reflect that a person in the registry is currently serving a term of parole supervision.  To facilitate this notification process, the bill further authorizes the SPB to access the registry to determine if a parolee is the subject of a domestic violence restraining order or has been charged with a violation of a court order involving domestic violence.  The SPB is also required to notify the AOC when the term of parole supervision has terminated.

     The SPB is required to indicate in the parole report, which is required to be filed with the board panel prior to an inmate’s parole eligibility date, whether the person is the subject of a domestic violence restraining order.  The bill also requires, when a person is charged with violating a domestic violence restraining order, the law enforcement agency or prosecutor, and the Judiciary to notify the SPB that a parolee has violated a domestic violence restraining order.