Communicating with New Jersey Legislators Via E-mail

According to the Office of Legislative Services, the only way for residents of New Jersey to contact Legislators by email is through an online form available on the website for the New Jersey State Legislature, http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ The online form has a number of significant problems that make it unnecessarily difficult for residents to use. Because of these problems, I asked the Office of Legislative Services for the email addresses of our State Legislators so that I could contact them without using the online form. The Office told me that the email addresses for the Legislators are not available to the public “because of severe spamming problems” and therefore “the form is the current protocol.”

If a resident wishes to contact his Legislator via email, he currently needs to go to the Legislature’s website, http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ If he knows his Legislator’s name, he can use the roster available on the site to get to a webpage that allows him to fill out an online form to send a message to the Legislator. If he does not know the elected official’s name, the resident can locate him as long as he knows either the municipality or election district in which that resident lives. Fair enough. On to filling out the form…

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