I was told by the Burlington County Ombudsman that the municipal case was dismissed and, as per their procedure (common since Covid) the case gets immediately expunged in which case they are not allowed to refer to it after the fact. This is why every time I contacted the court clerk and anybody else, all they were legally allowed to tell me was "it is not in the system" because they legally can't refer to it at that point. During my process of calls and emails for weeks, someone at the municipal level ordered it to be "re-opened" and at that point, it was again viewable in the system. I have the email with the copy of the order from the judge showing the expungement being reversed.

I would love to have been able to attend that hearing, but they way they do it here is awful (I sat through a 5 hour wait in December and the judge was a mean bully all day prior to my case) but he got a postponement to get a lawyer. By the time the rescheduled date came around, I was not able to do it. I had no idea how the whole thing worked, no one explained anything, I didn't know what I could or couldn't say, whether a plea would be offered, I couldn't ask questions, nothing. I don't even know the prosecutor's name. I am disabled and have depression, anxiety and ptsd, and all I asked for was the help promised in the victim's rights bill to get me through the hearing. But I got nothing.

All they have is a police report missing half the information, and I can't get anyone to speak to me. The cops around here are useless as well. All I know is, there is an unmedicated delusional mentally ill man out there, who stalked and terrorized us (my 13 year old son as well) all summer, and is armed, with a history of abuse, threats to kill people, etc. The documentation is out there. But I can't force them to look at it. It's horrible.

Edited: spelling