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Residents press Long Branch council on taxes, school board accountability and housing affordability
Summary
Multiple residents at the Dec. 23 meeting urged the council to address rising property taxes, Board of Education authority, housing affordability and immigrant protections; council members agreed to workshop the issues.
At the public participation portion of the Dec. 23 Long Branch City Council meeting, several residents urged the council to take steps on taxes, school board accountability, housing affordability and protections for immigrants.
Marsha Brown (111 Joline Avenue) described a local case of a longtime worker detained in a federal facility after a parking ticket and asked whether the city has sanctuary policies: "there's a child who's crying for his father," she said, and urged the city to require judicial warrants before sharing resident information and to support…
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