NJ Residents: Check Public Information Online at DataUniverse

If you are a NJ resident, did you ever wonder how much your child’s math teacher makes every year? And what’s the salary of your mayor? How about the price of the house two blocks down the street that was just sold? Or if you are buying a house, do you want to know the crime records of the town, the SAT scores of its high school, and the previous owner(s) of the property?

Well, if you are eager to get all these information, but don’t know where to go, DataUniverse is the place you should check out. DataUniverse is an online database provided by Asbury Park Press. With DataUniverse, NJ residents can find an array of public information, including:

• Salary information of about 275,000 NJ public employees
• 187 NJ fire districts taxes
• Death record from 1962 to 2006
• NJ school report cards from 2003 to 2006
• County, district, school SAT results from 2003 to 2006
• NJ crime records from 1996 to 2005
• Property sales records from 1996 to 2006
• Over 3 million property owners and assessments
• Information of NJ state employees
• NJ Election Law Enforcement Commission records political contributions
• Records of all NJ certificated public school teachers
• NJ DoC state inmates information
• NJ sex offender internet registry
• Sources of medical information
• NJ consumer affairs

And, here’s the search result of Jon Corzine, the governor of NJ, who doesn’t collect the $185,000 annual governor’s salary.

Considering the depth of his pocket, it shouldn’t surprise anybody.

*Photo from PCUSA.org