02-25-09 In The Matter Of The Disciplinary Action Against
Detective Ariel Gonzalez
A-1392-07T3
We held that the Waterfront Commission's media relations
policy, which prohibited employees from contacting the media
without prior approval of the Executive Director to be overbroad
and thus an unconstitutional prior restraint upon speech. We
also held the policy to have been unconstitutionally applied to
Detective Gonzalez, who was disciplined for contacting the media
to report a potentially toxic pile of dirt that had remained on
the Commission's property for three years and the presence of
dead rats in and around the dirt pile.
