CBS News: 2 N.J. emergency rooms diverting patients after Hackensack Meridian Health hit with potential cyber attack

CBS News: 2 N.J. emergency rooms diverting patients after Hackensack Meridian Health hit with potential cyber attack. “A ransomware attack on a health system in New Jersey is forcing two hospitals in the state to divert patients coming to their emergency rooms to other facilities. One of the hospitals is Hackensack Meridian Pascack Valley Medical Center in Westwood and the other is in Montclair.”

State of New Jersey: Office of the Secretary of Higher Education Launches BasicNeeds.NJ.gov Resource Hub at Convening of Campus Practitioners

State of New Jersey: Office of the Secretary of Higher Education Launches BasicNeeds.NJ.gov Resource Hub at Convening of Campus Practitioners . “BasicNeeds.NJ.gov – designed in collaboration with the Office of Innovation – centralizes information relevant to students regarding housing, food, transportation, child care, and other similar supports, while providing an overview of eligibility and the processes for seeking State assistance.”

NJ Spotlight News: New tool to ‘empower’ residents, local officials on warehouse development

NJ Spotlight News: New tool to ‘empower’ residents, local officials on warehouse development. “A new source of data on planned warehouses in New Jersey is designed to give residents information they can use to oppose the projects or urge local officials to protect some parcels from development by updating their master plans. The New Jersey League of Conservation Voters plans to hold a webinar Wednesday to launch the online platform that it says will provide users with descriptions of warehouse projects planned for their towns.”

Government of New Jersey: Governor Murphy Signs Legislation Launching a New Online Portal to Provide Access to Critical Reproductive Health Care Information

Government of New Jersey: Governor Murphy Signs Legislation Launching a New Online Portal to Provide Access to Critical Reproductive Health Care Information . ” Governor Phil Murphy today signed a bill (S-3275/A-4829) alongside members of his Administration, legislators, advocates, and public officials to launch a brand new website – the Reproductive Health Information Hub accessible at nj.gov/reproductivehealth – providing critical information on reproductive rights, access, and health care coverage across New Jersey.”

State of New Jersey: DEP Launches Online Mapping Tool To Target And Coordinate Coastal Resilience Projects

State of New Jersey: DEP Launches Online Mapping Tool To Target And Coordinate Coastal Resilience Projects. “The Coastal Ecological Restoration and Adaptation Planning Tool (CERAP Tool), provides the locations of at-risk areas, coastal resource restoration sites, and other data that will greatly assist in the targeting, development and coordination of projects needed to adapt communities to rising sea levels, increased flooding and more severe storms associated with climate change.”

State of New Jersey: Attorney General Platkin Announces the Launch of the “Criminal Justice Data Dashboard”

State of New Jersey: Attorney General Platkin Announces the Launch of the “Criminal Justice Data Dashboard”. “Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of Justice Data (OJD) announced the public release of the State’s first comprehensive data warehouse visualizing de-identified information on arrests in New Jersey from 2017 to 2022, including warrants, charges, dispositions, restitution, and fines, as well as demographic data.”

The Press of Atlantic City: Black History Month at Atlantic City Library strengthened by digitized collection

The Press of Atlantic City: Black History Month at Atlantic City Library strengthened by digitized collection. “The Atlantic City Library marked Black History Month by touting its newly digitized repository ‘The City of Dreams: The Atlantic City Experience.’ The repository, the digitization of which was facilitated by a federal grant, features about 14,000 items from 25 collections that tell the story of the Black community in Atlantic City and the impacts it has made both locally in South Jersey and across the country.”

InsideHook: Google Maps Incorrectly Directed Drivers to a Residential Driveway

InsideHook: Google Maps Incorrectly Directed Drivers to a Residential Driveway. “The next time I’m passing through [Warren, New Jersey], however, I’m going to be a little more aware of where my navigation of choice — in this case, Google Maps — is taking me. Why? Well, because a few Warren residents recently learned that Google Maps believes that their driveways are through streets, and is directing drivers accordingly.”

Stockton University: Center to Preserve Jewish Farming History Receives Grant

Stockton University: Center to Preserve Jewish Farming History Receives Grant. “The Alliance Heritage Center will use a new grant to create a public digital database of its collection documenting the history of Jewish farming in southern New Jersey. The New Jersey Historical Commission recently awarded more than $300,000 to 14 organizations to explore under-represented history in the state, including $24,500 to the Alliance Heritage Center at Stockton University.”

NJ .com: N.J. may soon set standards for students to learn how to separate fact from fiction on social media

NJ .com: N.J. may soon set standards for students to learn how to separate fact from fiction on social media . “Though Garden State schools already have some requirements to teach the topic, the state Legislature has overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan bill (S588) that would mandate a state Department of Education committee to develop specific statewide guidelines for lessons on information literacy across digital, visual, and technological media.”

Central Jersey: New Jersey Network collection added to American Archive of Public Broadcasting

Central Jersey: New Jersey Network collection added to American Archive of Public Broadcasting . “The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) has released the New Jersey Network (NJN) Special Collection, featuring more than 3,000 streaming programs from New Jersey public television dating from 1971 to 2011. The growing collection will eventually include nearly 25,000 items representing 40 years of programs from one of the largest producers of local public television in the United States, covering governmental, cultural and historic affairs, according to a press release.”

New Jersey 101.5: Digital archive catalogs thousands of Holocaust survivors in NJ

New Jersey 101.5: Digital archive catalogs thousands of Holocaust survivors in NJ. “When Stockton University professor Michael Hayse and some students started working in 2019 on a project to catalog South Jersey Holocaust survivors, they thought it would take about a year, and net a few hundred names. But three years later, the project continues, and now hundreds of involved students have found the names of 1,500 Holocaust survivors who live or lived in Atlantic, Cape May, and Cumberland counties.”