Lacey Township Online

27/05/2024

Former Lacey School Board President Censured for Ethics Violations

03/04/2024

California federal Judge orders mental competency evaluation of Lacey's Jonathan Lipman. He recently fired his federal public defender and was representing himself in a criminal trial that would have started this week in connection with his alleged threats to a judge and other public officials.

08/03/2024

The public's right to know is in danger! NJ legislators want to take away your right to obtain public records and hold government accountable under OPRA! Call and email legislators before Monday.

Use this resource to express your opposition to Bills S2930/A4505. This bill would make access to public records more difficult and government less transparent.

24/01/2024

NO DEAL!

LACEY – Local officials announced at the latest Township Committee meeting that they will hold off on plans to build a new municipal complex. The decision comes after months of analysis and public debate surrounding the project, which had been a focal point of township discourse.   The proposed c...

21/01/2024

Political Satire: The Lacey School Board Solar Panel Fiasco that wasted $8.2 million.

21/01/2024

18/01/2024

610 Lacey Rd. M.V.A. overturned

16/01/2024

https://patch.com/new-jersey/lacey/proposed-p3-municipal-complex-project-tabled-lacey-officials-say

A controversial project using a P3 partnership to construct a new municipal complex is not moving forward at this time.

14/12/2023

stopthelaceydeal.com

31/10/2023

On August 28, 2023, the Lacey Township Board of Education (Ocean County, NJ) discreetly agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a teacher who said that she was fired after she was falsely accused of handling a special needs student with “excessive force.” She claimed her firing was “outrageous and unjustified” and that even the student’s own mother was “incensed” by her firing.

On August 28, 2023, the Lacey Township Board of Education (Ocean County, NJ) discreetly agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a teacher who said that she was fired after she was falsely accused of handling a special needs student with “excessive force.” She claimed her firing was ....

30/10/2023

Cedar Creek Elementary School Supervisor Accused of Offering to Pay $1000 for S*x With Employee

Janice Jamie Caiola, who says she was the only female custodian employed at the Cedar Creek Elementary School has made some explosive allegations in a new lawsuit that was filed on October 27th in Ocean County Superior Court in Toms River.

Caiola claims that she faced s*xual harassment from her supervisor, Mark Stevens, and Lacey School District officials failed to stop it. She says she faced retaliation from Stevens after she rejected his s*xual advances.

"On one occasion, Defendant Stevens offered Plaintiff $1,000 to have s*x," the complaint read.

According to Caiola, at one point, after having his advances rejected by her Stevens allegedly said "Never stick your dick in crazy" among other inappropriate comments. The school district has yet to answer the lawsuit.

12/10/2023

Sidelined over a cardiac problem, Dashaun Witter still carried his pride in the Lacey Lions football team.Dashaun, 17, left his mark on the team as a practice player with swift feet and high spirits, Coach Warren Smith said.

"He was good to be around," Smith said. "He'd always be high-fiving everyone, smiling, bringing a lot of energy into the room, and people loved him. He made the room full of life."

Dashaun's life ended tragically Saturday following an early morning crash in Lakewood that claimed two other young people and seriously injured two more.

Deshaun Witter, 17, was killed in a crash in Lakewood early Saturday morning.

10/10/2023

Dashaun Witter, 17, was a loving and carefree person, according to a GoFundMe launched to help his family.

10/10/2023

A judge has denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit claiming that the Lacey Board of Education held secret meetings.

09/10/2023

A Lacey High School student is believed to be one of the victims.

Three people are dead and two criticall y injured following an accident in Lakewood early Saturday morning. At approximately 2:20 a.m., Officers from the Lakewood Police Department were summoned to the area of New Hampshire Avenue and Cedar Bridge Avenue for a report of a serious motor vehicle crash...

05/10/2023

TOMS RIVER, NJ – An Ocean County Superior Court judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought against the Lacey Township Board of Education alleging violations of the New Jersey Open Public Meetings Act (OPMA) over clandestine meetings held by a majority of the board during 2019 that recently came to light in related proceedings before the School Ethics Commission within the New Jersey Department of Education. In a September 15th, 2023 decision, the Honorable Valter H. Must, J.S.C. refused to dismiss the lawsuit, finding that plaintiffs Gavin Rozzi and Regina Discenza have stated a claim for violations of the “Sunshine Law” as well as the New Jersey Civil Rights Act.

TOMS RIVER, NJ – An Ocean County Superior Court judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought against the Lacey Township Board of Education alleging violations of the New Jersey Open Public Meetings Act (OPMA) over clandestine meetings held by a majority of the board during 2019 that recently came to...