LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. – Trenton’s sanctuary agenda is running into more resistance back home, Save Jerseyans.
Lacey Township adopted Resolution 2026-298 on October 8th, formally opposing state laws restricting cooperation with federal immigration authorities and urging the governor and Legislature to repeal them.
The Ocean County community’s resolution targets restrictions on law enforcement communications and information sharing, identification requirements for officers, and limits on immigration enforcement at designated “sensitive locations.”
Lacey officials warn that those policies could undermine investigations, endanger officers, and “give sanctuary to criminals among the very communities these laws purport to seek to protect.”
The township also encourages cooperation among law enforcement agencies “to the fullest extent permitted by law.”
Lacey joins at least eight other municipalities that have adopted resolutions opposing sanctuary policies this year: Barnegat, Jackson, Lavallette, Little Egg Harbor, Middletown, Stafford, Toms River, and Greenwich Township in Gloucester County. Warren, Sussex, and Cape May counties have also formally pushed back.
Together, those nine municipalities and three counties represent approximately 680,000 residents, based on 2020 Census counts, without double-counting overlapping jurisdictions.
These resolutions won’t repeal Trenton’s policies on their own. But they put local governments on record demanding something that shouldn’t be controversial: letting law enforcement agencies work together to protect the people paying their salaries.
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