LeRoy J. Jones, Jr.

LeRoy J. Jones Jr. (born September 5, 1957) is an American Democratic Party politician, who served four terms in the New Jersey General Assembly, where he represented the 27th Legislative District. He is currently a partner at 1868 Public Affairs and a political operative serving as the Democratic Party chairman for both East Orange and Essex County, New Jersey.

Jones received his undergraduate degree from Seton Hall University, with a major in accounting. He was awarded a master's degree in Business Management from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Jones who served two terms on the Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders from 1988 to 1993. and four-terms in the New Jersey General Assembly, where he represented the 27th Legislative District from 1994 to 2000. As a member of the New Jersey General Assembly, Jones served on the Solid and Hazardous Waste Committee and was Deputy Minority Leader from 1996 to 1998. He was first elected in 1993 along with Nia Gill, and the pair won re-election in 1995, 1997 and 1999.

Saying that box cutters had become "the weapon of choice" for gang members, Jones proposed legislation in the Assembly in 1995 that would ban the sale of box cutters to those under 18 years old, with a fine of up to $7,000 and 18 months in jail imposed on those violating the ban. In 1998, Jones proposed legislation that would require children up to the age of 14 to wear ski helmets and would require ski areas to make them available for use by all underage skiers.

After a highly publicized incident involving four minority men along the New Jersey Turnpike in April 1998, and the publication in January 1999 of State Police data which, for the first time, provided solid and reliable evidence supporting the complaints of minority motorists who were being illegally targeted by the State Police. On May 18, 1998, Assemblyman LeRoy J. Jones Jr. and Senator Shirley Turner, requested Senate President Donald DiFrancesco and Assembly Speaker Jack Collins to impanel a bicameral legislative task force to review the issue of racial profiling. Their request was denied. On May 28, 1998 Assemblyman Jones and Senator Turner introduced legislation to create a joint legislative task force to hold public hearings to investigate racial profiling and minority employment discrimination within the State Police. Jones said, "If you know something is wrong . . . you are duty bound to challenge that procedure, particularly when you know it is wrong," he said.

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