The New Jersey Supreme Court has affirmed vacatur of a local politician’s criminal conviction for disclosing information about an opponent’s child abuse allegations to an ally.
In a unanimous ruling released May 24, the court said the language of the statute that criminalizes the unauthorized release or encouraging the release of confidential child abuse information is ambiguous in that it is unclear as to whether the statute applies to anyone or only to employees of the Division of Child Protection and Permanency.
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