Overview

• Baraka filed a federal lawsuit on June 3 against U.S. Attorney Alina Habba and Homeland Security agent Ricky Patel, accusing them of false arrest and malicious prosecution after the trespassing charge from his May 9 ICE protest was dropped.
• He calls New Jersey’s school funding formula broken and proposes accountability measures for charter schools, incentives for district consolidation and support for desegregation efforts to advance equity.
• During his campaign he was arrested outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center on May 9 for trespassing during a protest of its opening, though federal prosecutors dropped the charge on May 23.
• His broader platform calls for tax reform with a 1.4% rate on the first $90,000 of income, reduced rates for middle-income earners, an overhaul of healthcare funding and solutions to housing and transportation challenges.
• Baraka points to his Newark tenure—where crime fell to a 60-year low, 23,000 lead service lines were replaced at no cost and homelessness dropped by 57%—as evidence of his executive record.