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Vainieri Huttle: Nothing Vague About NJ Being the 1st to Tackle Bullying

(TRENTON) — Assembly Human Services Committee Chairwoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle (D-Bergen) had the following published recently in the Newark Star-Ledger:

“The Feb. 4 Star-Ledger editorial “Will New Jersey finally take the time to fix its broken bullying law?” had a misleading headline, as well as some missing facts.

What the editorial failed to grasp is that you cannot take a complex behavior that manifests itself in tens of thousands of different ways, a behavior that at times we don’t fully understand, and wrap a tight definition around it. It just doesn’t work that way…”

To read Assemblywoman Vainieri Huttle’s full response op-ed, click here.