The officer spotted a woman outside a school, then used police tools to find her address and ask for her number, according to the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office.
There are signs that decades-old policy may be coming to an end as a way to resolve a court case brought by the state of New Jersey that could cost the group $25,000 a day in fines for violating state beach access laws.
Volunteers and staff wearing PPE spent several hours on Wednesday removing the frightened cats from a bug-infested apartment in Neptune Township after the Monmouth County SPCA was anonymously tipped off.
Two men have each been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for their respective roles in a botched robbery that culminated with a fatal shooting in 2018 in Monmouth County.