‘The Essex County vicinage is the busiest court system in New Jersey and one of the twenty busiest vicinages in the United States,’ said Sheriff Fontoura.

He and his staff oversee three offices and file well over 500 consumer bankruptcy cases per year in all three New Jersey vicinages .

However, the state is divided into three vicinages , with designated counties for each vicinage, as follows.

In New Jersey, there are 15 vicinages and 21 counties.

Indeed, many municipalities and judicial vicinages in New Jersey have already put similar programs in place for dealing with neighborhood disputes, small claims matters and petty criminal offenses.