RACIAL AND ETHNIC COMMUNITY CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY IMPACT STATEMENT
ASSEMBLY, No. 2240
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
SUMMARY
|
Synopsis: |
Requires law enforcement to notify State Parole Board when parolee violates domestic violence restraining order. |
The Office of Legislative Services does not develop or maintain source data concerning the criminal justice system in the State. The Office of Legislative Services makes reasonable efforts to obtain data from Executive Branch Departments and the Judiciary. This statement may reflect information provided by the United States Census Bureau, the Administrative Office of the Courts within the Judiciary, the New Jersey Department of Corrections, the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General, and the Youth Justice Commission in the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety. The publicly available data and the data provided by the responding departments and agencies contained within this statement allows for a general overview of the frequencies of events of interest (i.e. arrests, charges, and convictions) for racial and ethnic minorities for the crimes identified herein. This statement does not provide for an in-depth analysis of that data.
Additional data concerning recidivism rates and incarceration rates for the specific crimes addressed within this statement sorted by race and ethnicity is needed in order to make a conclusion on the impacts on racial and ethnic minorities. Additional data concerning the deterrent effects of similar laws of this type is needed to determine the impact on community criminal justice and public safety. It should be noted that the data needed may not currently be collected by the responding departments or agencies or may not exist.[1]
BILL DESCRIPTION
Assembly Bill No. 2240 requires a prosecutor or law enforcement officer to notify the State Parole Board (SPB) when a parolee is charged with violating 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 prosecutor or 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, or for notifying the AOC that a person on the registry is on parole or will be paroled.
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. The bill requires the AOC, in consultation with the SPB, to develop a data sharing system within one year of the bill’s effective date.
To facilitate this notification process, the bill 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 domestic violence restraining order. The SPB is required to notify the AOC when the term of parole supervision has terminated. The SPB is also 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. Finally, if a restraining order is in effect, the bill authorizes the SPB to impose conditions of parole to conform to the terms of the restraining order.
Federal and State
Census Information[2]
Federal and State
Inmate Population Data[3]
|
|
Population |
Caucasian |
African
American |
Native
American/Alaska Native |
Asian |
Native
Hawaiian/ Other Pacific Islander |
Hispanic |
Two or More
Races /Other |
|
Federal
Adult Inmate Population[4] |
156,241 |
56.98% |
38.5% |
3.1% |
1.6% |
N/A |
29.5% |
N/A |
|
State Adult
Inmate Population[5] |
10,679 |
26% |
60% |
.1% |
1% |
.02% |
20% |
6% |
State Census and State Inmate Population
Data
|
|
Population |
Caucasian |
African
American |
Native
American/Alaska Native |
Asian |
Native
Hawaiian/ Other Pacific Islander |
Hispanic |
Two or More
Races /Other |
|
State
Census Estimate |
9,289,000 |
53.5% |
15.3% |
0.7% |
10.3% |
0.1% |
21.5% |
2.4% |
|
State Adult
Inmate Population[6] |
10,679 |
26% |
60% |
.1% |
1% |
.02% |
20% |
6% |
DATA PROVIDED BY THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH
The following data was obtained from the Criminal Justice Data Dashboard maintained by the Office of the Attorney General for the crimes and offenses concerning contempt of Domestic Violence restraining orders, pursuant to subsection b of N.J.S.A.2C:29-9, for the period of 2024 through quarter one of 2026:
The following data was provided, as a part
of the submission, from the Office of the Attorney General:
The below displays the number of unique
offenders with any paragraph of the enumerated charges below displayed by
race/ethnicity for all arrests between January 1, 2024
to March 31, 2026.
|
Statute |
Statute
Description |
Degree |
White
(incl. Hispanic origin) |
Black |
Asian/
Pac.
Islander |
Am.
Indian/ Alaska Native |
Unknown/ Not
Provided |
|
2C:29-9(B) |
CONTEMPT-VIOLATE DOMESTIC VIOL
RESTRAING ORDR |
DP |
7 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
2C:29-9(B)(1) |
CONTEMPT-VIOLATE DV ORDER BY C RIME OR DP OFFENSE |
DP,
4, 1 |
751 |
437 |
20 |
7 |
51 |
|
2C:29-9(B)(2) |
CONTEMPT VIOLATE DOMESTIC
VIOLENCE REST/ORDER |
1 |
3,228 |
1,687 |
109 |
19 |
197 |
The below displays
the number of Unique Persons Convicted of any paragraph of the enumerated
charges below displayed by race/ethnicity for all convictions between January
1, 2024 to March 31, 2026.
|
Statute |
Statute Description |
Degree |
White (incl. Hispanic origin) |
Black |
Asian/ Pac. Islander |
Am. Indian/ Alaska Native |
Unknown/ Not Provided |
|
2C:29-9(B) |
CONTEMPT-VIOLATE DOMESTIC VIOL
RESTRAING ORDR |
Unknown |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
2C:29-9(B)(1) |
CONTEMPT-VIOLATE DV ORDER BY C RIME OR DP OFFENSE |
4 |
181 |
89 |
2 |
1 |
9 |
|
2C:29-9(B)(2) |
CONTEMPT VIOLATE DOMESTIC
VIOLENCE REST/ORDER |
DP |
1,120 |
518 |
26 |
9 |
50 |
The following response was provided by the Youth Justice Commission:
The Youth Justice Commission (YJC) does not maintain or have direct access to detailed data on youth arrests, prosecutions, or adjudications (i.e. convictions). The YJC is not a prosecutorial agency. The YJC does not keep racial and ethnic data segregated by crimes for arrests, prosecutions, or adjudications for the juveniles committed to its care.
The following data was provided by the Department of Corrections:
The Department of Corrections has provided the following statistical data concerning the State inmate population for contempt offenses, categorized by gender and by race and ethnicity for the period of January 1, 2024 through June 11, 2026. The charts reflect data for which contempt is both the most serious offense (MSO) and the non-most serious offense (NON-MSO):
DATA PROVIDED BY THE JUDICIARY
The following data was provided, as a part of the submission, from the Judiciary:
