Maplewood and South Orange Research and Discuss Integrating Social Work and Policing
Maplewood and South Orange elected officials — with the help of citizen boards and committees and, potentially, Seton Hall University — are looking at options…
Maplewood Discusses Hiring Police Social Worker & ‘Differently Funding’ Police
A proposal to hire a social worker to work with both the South Orange and Maplewood police will be reviewed by the Maplewood Community Board…
What ‘Defund the Police’ Could Mean in Maplewood & South Orange
Dear readers, if you are seeing this box, you are reading one of the very few current articles behind our paywall. Village Green has been…
South Orange Students Ask Board of Trustees for Redistribution of Police Funding
In the weeks since the murder of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota, cities and towns around the country are having conversations…
