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A1770 • 2026

Requires Special Investigations Division to issue monthly report on sexual abuse in State correctional facilities.

Requires Special Investigations Division to issue monthly report on sexual abuse in State correctional facilities.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Verrelli, Anthony S.
Last action
2026-01-13
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Public Safety and Preparedness Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires Special Investigations Division to issue monthly report on sexual abuse in State correctional facilities.

Requires Special Investigations Division to issue monthly report on sexual abuse in State correctional facilities.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires Special Investigations Division to issue monthly report on sexual abuse in State correctional facilities.
  • Topic: Public Safety and Preparedness Fiscal note: This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Public Safety and Preparedness Committee

Official Summary Text

Requires Special Investigations Division to issue monthly report on sexual abuse in State correctional facilities.
Topic:
Public Safety and Preparedness
Fiscal note:
This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A1770

ASSEMBLY, No. 1770

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman ANTHONY S. VERRELLI

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

Assemblywoman AURA K. DUNN

District 25 (Morris and Passaic)

Assemblyman WILLIAM B. SAMPSON, IV

District 31 (Hudson)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires Special Investigations Division to issue
monthly report on sexual abuse in State correctional facilities.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative
Counsel.

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An Act

requiring Special Investigations Division to
report certain information relating to sexual abuse in State correctional
facilities and supplementing Title 30 of the Revised Statutes.�

����
Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� a.� The Special
Investigations Division in each correctional facility in this State shall submit
to the Commissioner of Corrections and the facility administrator:�

���� (1) within 48 hours of receipt
of a complaint of sexual abuse by an inmate, an executive summary of that
complaint; and

���� (2) no later than the tenth
day of each month, a report summarizing the investigation to date of each
allegation of sexual assault during the preceding month and status updates of
other investigations that have not been closed.

���� b.��� For the purposes of this
section, "facility administrator" means the chief operating officer
or senior administrative designee of the correctional facility.

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect on the first day of the fourth month next following enactment.�

STATEMENT

���� This bill requires the Special
Investigations Division in each correctional facility in this State to submit to
the Department of Corrections (DOC) and the administrator of the facility certain
information concerning investigations of alleged sexual abuse.��������

���� The bill specifically requires
an executive summary of a complaint of sexual abuse to be submitted to the DOC
and facility administrator within 48 hours of when the complaint is received.�
The bill also requires a report to be submitted by the tenth day of each month
summarizing the investigations to date of allegations of sexual assault in the
preceding month and status updates of investigations that have not yet been
closed.

���� It is the sponsor�s intent to
address reports that correctional police officers assigned to the Special
Investigations Division in State correctional facilities have systematically
failed to investigate complaints of sexual abuse by inmates, conducted inadequate
and incomplete investigations of these complaints, or closed investigations as
unsubstantiated without applying the appropriate preponderance of the evidence
standard.� Had certain correctional police officers been properly investigated
in earlier cases of alleged sexual abuse, they may have been prevented from
committing sexual abuse crimes for which they subsequently were convicted.��