TRENTON – Senator Ronald L. Rice, who co-sponsored the State’s first legislative attempt to require window guards in apartments where children reside, today said he asked the State Department of Community Affairs to conduct a “top to bottom safety inspection” of the apartment complex where a young Newark boy fell to his death from a 15th floor window early Thursday evening.
“I want the State to determine if the complex had window guards where they were supposed to have them and whether all rules affecting quality of life issues were being followed,” said Senator Rice, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Community and Urban Affairs.