New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 10A - CORRECTIONS
Chapter 19 - NEWS MEDIA AND PUBLIC INFORMATION DISSEMINATION
Subchapter 3 - NEWS MEDIA REPRESENTATIVE AND/OR FREE-LANCER CONTACTS WITH CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES AND INMATES
Section 10A:19-3.7 - News media and/or freelancer agreement
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 6, March 18, 2024
(a) Upon arrival at the correctional facility, the news media representative and/or freelancer shall present valid press credentials or other identification approved by the Office of Public Information, New Jersey Department of Corrections, and complete and sign the News Media Representative/Freelancer Agreement.
(b) Photographing, interviewing, recording, filming, or videotaping of an inmate by any news media representative and/or freelancer shall not be permitted to take place prior to the signing of the News Media Representative/Freelancer Agreement and the completion of a signed inmate consent form.
(c) The originals of all related inmate consent and media agreements shall be retained by the correctional facility. A copy of these forms shall be provided to the news media representative and/or freelancer, and a copy shall be forwarded to the Office of Public Information, New Jersey Department of Corrections.