Due Process, winner of 25 New York and Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards, is the critically acclaimed series on law and justice. Launched in 1996 at New Jersey Network, Due Process has spanned over 23 years with the same cutting edge coverage that has marked its long tenure.

Social and Criminal Justice, Urban Issues, Civil Rights, National Security, Government and Politics, Race and Class, Public Policy – those are the elements of the Due Process beat.

Hosting Due Process is award-winning veteran journalist Sandra King. Sandy also writes, reports and produces Due Process along with Co-Producer Tania Bentley.

The need for serious public discourse about critical issues of law and justice has never been greater, as challenges grow to our privacy, equal treatment and civil liberties. From mass incarceration and race and class bias in the criminal justice system to a “war on drugs” that continues to jail thousands for the use of marijuana, from government incursions on our privacy to a desperate need for immigration reform, there are issues and questions that beg to be explained and explored.

Our recent programs on bail reform, reentry issues, wrongful conviction, eminent domain, plea bargains, juvenile justice and police brutality speak directly to the need for public attention and official response.

Meanwhile, the American audience is mesmerized in the tens of millions by The Kardashians, and the “Real Housewives.” Network news operations are shrinking and celebrity gossip, fires and murders dominate the local coverage. It’s a national small screen wasteland magnified here in New Jersey.

Squeezed between the #1 and #4 markets, New Jersey has always been short-changed on TV attention to the issues that impact this state and its people. Our coverage by New York and Philadelphia continues to be largely limited to sensational crime and spectacular fires, with public policy questions largely ignored. It is in that context that “Due Process” was launched – and continues – responding to the public need for relevant examination of critical issues of law and social justice.