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Weather forces Christie to cancel trip to inaugurals
MICHAEL SYMONS @MICHAELSYMONS_
TRENTON Gov. Chris Christie shelved plans to
attend Mondays gubernatorial inaugurals in Illinois
and Ohio, citing the weather.
Christie had been scheduled to attend inaugural
festivities in seven states this month, including
South Carolina and Iowa later this week. But the
same storm bringing rain, sleet and ice to New Jersey, depending on the section of the state, also delivered snow and wind to the Midwest.
The change in plans is due to weather so the
governor will no longer be traveling to attend inauguration events in Ohio and Illinois today as previ-

ously planned, said Nicole Sizemore, communications director for the New Jersey Republican State
Committee.
Christie was instead in New Jersey, where he will
deliver the annual State of the State address to a joint
session of the state Legislature at 2 p.m. today in the
Assembly chamber at the Statehouse in Trenton.
Christie, who is expected to decide in the coming
weeks on whether to seek the Republican nomination for president, attended inaugurals for Gov.
Charlie Baker of Massachusetts and Gov. Rick Scott
of Florida last week, and next week he is due to visit
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New Jersey
3. California

1. New York

EXODUS

2. Pennsylvania

5. North Carolina

More baby boomers, urban-oriented

millennials expected to flee the state

4. Florida

$8B
The cost to the states
economy from 2006 to
2011 from the loss of
more than 90,000
taxpayers who moved
away

Top destinations of those leaving New Jersey

KALA KACHMAR @NEWSQUIP

The map above shows the top five states that most people
leaving New Jersey move to, with New York as the most
popular destination.

For Raymond Francisco, landing a job at the General

Motors auto plant in Linden at 25 years old was like winning the lottery.
The New Brunswick native was a welder by trade
and enjoyed working hard for the good money he made
at the plant. But when GM announced in 2002 it would
close the factory about six years after he started
Francisco decided he had to go where the jobs were.
It was the scariest thing I ever did in my life moving out of New Jersey, he said. My daughter was just
born; my son was 5. But looking back, it worked out for
the best.
People are leaving New Jersey at a rate higher than
47 other states are losing residents. That is just behind

New Jersey migration

The graphic to the left shows the number of people who left
New Jersey from 2010 to 2014. While 204,197 domestic
residents moved away from the state in that period, 211,165
international residents relocated to New Jersey, for a net
growth of 6,968 residents.
SOURCE: U.S. CENSUS CUMULATIVE ESTIMATES OF THE COMPONENTS OF

= 10,000 people

RESIDENT POPULATION CHANGE FOR THE UNITED STATES, REGIONS AND

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Lawyers: Arrest, seizure violated photographers rights

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ERIK LARSEN AND STEPH SOLIS

@ERIK_LARSEN AND @STEPHMSOLIS

LACEY A freelance photographer arrested after he

refused to surrender his camera to a law enforcement

officer at an accident scene was denied his federal constitutional rights as well other legal protections accorded working journalists in New Jersey, legal experts
said Monday.
Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato has
acknowledged there was no legal basis for his detective
to order Andrew P. Flinchbaugh, 23, of Lacey to relinquish his camera. Detective David Margentino

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charged Flinchbaugh with obstructing administration

of law, a disorderly persons offense. Coronato, who
learned of the Thursday arrest hours after it happened,
later dropped the charge.
experts

It never should have come to that, the legal

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The First Amendment broadly protects the right to
gather information and publish the news. In modern
times, that includes taking photographs and shooting
video in public including of police activity.
Moreover, individuals are protected from having
their digital content confiscated without a search warrant, according to the American Civil Liberties Union
of New Jersey.
The seizure of the video violates the free press protection of the New Jersey Constitution and the United

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