Halloween Curfew In Woodbridge

Woodbridge Township has announced a Halloween curfew.

The curfew will be in effect on Friday and Saturday nights, until the following mornings.

It runs from 7 p.m. until sunrise, and applies to everyone under the age of 18 who is not accompanied by a parent, guardian or other responsible adult, a township news release said.

“As Halloween has grown in popularity, so have responsibilities to safeguard and protect our ‘trick-or-treaters’ as they go from house-to-house and to the special holiday events sponsored by the Township Department of Recreation,” Mayor John E. McCormac said in a prepared statement. “While the Woodbridge Police Department will be watching out for our ‘ghosts and goblins’ as part of special Halloween patrols and the Health Department is available to provide information on healthy treats, the safety of our youngest ‘trick-or-treaters’ falls to parents and older children. We encourage everyone – young and old alike – to think ‘safety first’ as they attend the many Halloween events scheduled over the next several days and as youngsters take to the streets for ‘trick-or-treating’ on Halloween.”

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Woodbridge police plan to issues warnings and instructions to return home to first-time violators; for subsequent offenses, violators will be taken into custody and held until picked up by a parent or guardian, the township news release said.