Know Your Rights

Plain-English guides for people dealing with the police, and for families after a police encounter.

Guides

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A nine-step checklist: medical care, evidence, witnesses and deadlines.

Your right to record, how to do it safely, and what to do if police take your phone.

Why it matters and three ways to get it.

The Division on Civil Rights or Superior Court - and the deadlines for each.

Deadlines, costs, compensation, and what to bring to a consultation.

Investigations of deaths and shootings involving New Jersey police.