School Board Candidate James Carifi Promotes Educational Law and Order
Get to know your candidates and cast an informed vote Nov. 6.
James Carifi, 43, became a Parsippany Police captain in 2010, so it's no surprise he is about keeping better order in the schools—and on the school board. Carifi is a decade-long Parsippany resident who's married with two kids and the brother of Town Council member Paul Carifi Jr. He is active in the youth sports scene and a member of his local PTA. On issues, he is outspoken on the issue of residential stacking and making sure that the only children who attend Parsippany schools are the children who live legally within the township. At the recent Par-Troy Council of PTAs debate, Carifi announced that he had made a number of Open Public Records Act requests to the school district to find out exactly how many students were registered in …