Declan O'Scanlon

Unemployed workers aren't required to be looking for work during the pandemic – but they must still certify they're ready, willing and available to work.

State racing to develop training for police so they're comfortable with how marijuana and alcohol possession among youth are to be handled.

While A-5472/S-3565 awaits Governor Murphy's signature, Senator Anthony Bucco and Senator Declan O’Scanlon do support the change but they say it's not enough.

As more teachers begin to make appointments and get vaccinated, Monmouth County State Senator Declan O'Scanlon says the time is about right to resume full in-person learning at schools.

It appears, at least one portion of the new Marijuana law, will be reversed after all.

The way things currently stand is that police can face 3rd degree criminal charges for depravation of civil rights if they initiate that type of investigation or detain a minor on that offense, under the new guidelines.

How soon will it be until Indoor Dining capacity can go up? Why is New Jersey so far behind other states in Covid planning and recovery? How will the Jersey Shore recover from the pandemic?

The New Jersey Senate Republican caucus have sent a letter to Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin asking them to schedule votes in both houses of the Legislature as they hope to override a bill Governor Phil Murphy vetoed which would help save New Jersey’s strug…

Police union says ticket quotas are real and implemented through performance evaluations. A Senate bill would bar them.

Committee OK's extending seasonal licenses to January 2022 but balks at even longer extension. Bill to help breweries doesn't yet get a vote.

New Jersey stopping allowing red-light cameras in 2014. A bill would block the MVC from sharing driver information to process tickets from other states.

Legislators from across the political spectrum say it's time - or past time - for the state to commit to dates for reopening businesses ordered to close.