Municipal court judges are not supposed to be revenue collectors for the towns that hire them and pay their salaries even though local governments rely on the money they bring in.
That inherent tension burst into the open last month when the Borough of Eatontown in Monmouth County set out to hire a new judge after seeing court receipts drop by more than 20 percent under the last one.
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