New Jersey A-5326/S-4250 Seabrooks-Washington Community-Led Crisis Response Act

On January 9, 2024, the New Jersey legislature published this Assembly Bill 5326/Senate Bill 4250, titled the Seabrooks-Washington Community-Led Crisis Response Act. The bill establishes a Community Crisis Response Advisory Council, along with a companion community crisis response pilot program, and appropriates $12 million to support grant recipients from six eligible counties of the pilot program — Camden, Essex, Hudson, Mercer, Middlesex, and Passaic — in addition to supporting the implementation of the bill by the Department of Law and Public Safety (LPS . . .