The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that officers in the Union County Police Department are not entitled to defense or indemnification from the state in a lawsuit tied to a polygraph test they administered for the Union County Prosecutor’s Office.
Under state statutes, each county—and not the attorney general—is responsible for defending and potentially indemnifying its police officers, the court said in Kaminskas v. State of New Jersey. The justices, in a 7-0 ruling, affirmed an Appellate Division ruling that said each county must provide a defense to members of a county police department for any legal proceeding arising out of the performance of their duties.
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