{"id":20437,"date":"2022-08-10T00:59:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T04:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=20437"},"modified":"2022-08-10T00:59:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T04:59:27","slug":"bricks-municipal-court-judge-reappointed-for-new-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2022\/08\/bricks-municipal-court-judge-reappointed-for-new-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick&#8217;s Municipal Court Judge Reappointed for New Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1912\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/gavel.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1912\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1912\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/gavel.jpg\" alt=\"Gavel (Credit: Brian Turner\/Flickr)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/gavel.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/gavel-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/gavel-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gavel (Credit: Brian Turner\/Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick Township&#8217;s municipal court judge has been reappointed for a third term on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Joseph Grisanti was reappointed by Mayor John Ducey, with the matter being considered by the township council Tuesday night. Under Brick&#8217;s form of government, the mayor is tasked with appointing the municipal court judge, but must obtain advice and consent from the governing body. Grisanti&#8217;s reappointment passed unanimously.<\/p>\n<p>Grisanti&#8217;s new term runs for three years, from Aug. 22, 2022 through Aug. 21, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Municipal court judges are considered employees of the township and are paid a salary of $135,928 per year, which is set by ordinance. Prior to first being appointed to the judgeship in 2016, Grisanti worked as an attorney in private practice and as a municipal prosecutor in several local courts. He also served as a member of the state&#8217;s Attorney Ethics Committee, which reviews legal ethics questions.<\/p>\n<p>Grisanti is also a former FBI agent and served in the United States Navy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2022\/08\/bricks-municipal-court-judge-reappointed-for-new-term\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick Township&#8217;s municipal court judge has been reappointed for a third term on the bench. Judge Joseph Grisanti was reappointed by Mayor John Ducey, with the matter being considered by the township council Tuesday night. Under Brick&#8217;s form of government, the mayor is tasked with appointing the municipal court judge, but must obtain advice and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[24,4484,2282,2291],"class_list":["post-20437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-police-fire-courts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-featured","tag-joseph-grisanti","tag-municipal-court-judge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/gavel.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-5jD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}