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Public commenters press board on nursing-home death investigation and immigrant-services funding
Summary
Public speakers raised urgent personal and policy concerns: Raymond Mitchell urged action and described his ongoing fight to investigate his father's death at a nursing home; Courtney Walker praised an immigration-response task force and requested more rental and legal assistance funding and asked about political messaging on a vehicle marked 'Office of Hudson County Sheriff.'
Several public commenters used the March 26 public-comment period to press the board on distinct urgent matters.
Raymond Mitchell recounted his father's death at a North Bergen nursing home during the pandemic and said he has sought investigations at multiple levels without resolution. "My father's strangled... this will be six years that I'm fighting for this justice," Mitchell said, asking the board to help secure an investigation. Commissioners and staff offered to speak with…
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