[directive] To facilitate this prosecutorial review, following generation of a private citizen complaint the eCDR system, in all private citizen complaints containing an indictable offense will be electronically forwarded to the County Prosecutor for review, prior to being sent to the court for a probable cause determination.  of  County Prosecutors will have 45 calendar days following receipt the electronically forwarded private citizen complaint to conduct their review either approve or deny the and complaint.  As part of their approval authority, the County Prosecutor may modify the of charge(s).  The Prosecutor's office may also apply to the court for extensions time to review the complaint of to ten calendar days each, which extension applications shall granted be up of by the court a showing of good cause.  Each these actions will be done through the on computer system changes noted previously.  If the prosecutor approves the private citizen complaint, the complaint will be automatically routed to the court through eCDR for a probable cause determination.  Under the new rules, only a judge authorized to determine probable cause a private citizen on is complaint charging indictable offense.  As such, these complaints will only sent to be an judges.  Effective January 2020, municipal court administrators and deputy municipal court 1, administrators (hereinafter collectively referred to as court administrators), will no longer be permitted to determine probable cause private citizen complaints charging indictable an on offense.  of  Importantly, this change quasi-judicial responsibility does not affect the authority in court administrators to determine probable cause and issue complaints for other matters.  Thus, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2B:12-21(a), authorized court administrators may still determine probable cause and issue process on all complaints filed by law enforcement (including 2 #26-19 Directive December 2019 20, Page 3 complaints containing indictable charge), as well as complaints filed by private citizens an that do not include indictable offense.  Moreover, these rule changes retain the an requirement that if authorized court administrator finds that no probable cause exists to an issue a complaint, that finding must be reviewed by a judge.  If the County Prosecutor denies the citizen complaint, the complaint does not move forward to the court for a probable cause determination.  The complaint at that point is effectively terminated.  When this occurs, the Prosecutor required to report the denial to is the Assignment Judge the record or writing, as well as notify both the citizen complainant on in and the defendant as to that outcome.  If the prosecutor does not take action on the complaint of (either to approve or to deny) within the 45 day timeframe and extension time has been no requested, such absence of action shall be deemed the prosecutor not objecting to the as complaint.  such instance the complaint will automatically be routed to the judge In electronically for a probable cause determination.  Electronic processes are being developed eCDR to support each of the above requirements.  in Private Citizen Complaints Charging a Disorderly Persons Offense