Ocean County Town Hall On Policing, Community Wednesday

TOMS RIVER, NJ — A virtual town hall on law enforcement and the community is set for Wednesday evening, with members of Ocean County law enforcement sharing information and answering questions.

The event, "Moving Forward: A Conversation on Law Enforcement and Community Policing," begins at 6 p.m. It will be streamed live on the prosecutor's office website here. You can submit questions to the panel through a form on the livestream at www.ocponj.gov/21-21 or by email to communityquestions@co.ocean.nj.us.

The event, hosted by Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer and the prosecutor's office, will have several members of law enforcement and community leaders participating, including Ocean County Sheriff Michael Mastronardy, Toms River Police Chief Mitch Little and Manchester Police Chief Lisa Parker.

The virtual town hall will focus on social justice, use of force, police accountability and training and internal affairs investigations, the prosecutor's office said.

U.S. Rep. Andy Kim will give opening remarks. The panel also will include Robert Czepiel Jr., NJ's supervising deputy attorney general; Joseph F. Mitchell, chief of detectives in the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office; Chief William Dikun, the chief instructor at the Ocean County Police Academy; Capt. Anthony Carrington of the Special Investigations Unit at the prosecutor's office; Sgt. Thomas Tiernan of the Special Investigations Unit at the prosecutor's office; William Sharfenberg, chief of professional standards for the prosecutor's office; Renee T. White, supervising assistant prosecutor for the prosecutor's office; Agent Michael Colwell, with community outreach at the prosecutor's office; Rev. William A. Greene, pastor at Second Baptist Church of Toms River; Rev. William Simmons, assistant pastor at Sixth Street Baptist Church, and Jasmin Guarin, founder of the Junior Community Ambassadors Club at Toms River High School South.

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