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This week former Monmouth County Prosecutor Thomas Huth was honored by the Asbury Park City Council for the countless hours he served helping the reduce crime in the city.

“We thank him for 29 years of outstanding commitment to justice and service to the city and its residents,” Deputy Mayor Amy Quinn said in reading from a proclamation or recognition Wednesday. “Mr Huth has been essential in the outreach efforts in the Asbury Park and Neptune communities.”

A graduate of the University of Connecticut, who went on to obtain a master of science in jurisprudence from Seton Hall before becoming an Essex County Prosecutor.

Huth began his tenure with the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office in 1998, serving as a Trial Team Leader, Director of the Asbury Park Satellite Office, Director of the Major Crimes Unit, and most recently Senior Litigation Counsel.

In February 2011 he helped establish and served as Co Chair of the Community Development Initiative [CDI], which brings together communities stakeholders in an effort to prevent juvenile crime and promote positive outcomes for our youth, Quinn said.

“Mr Huth’s genuinely care and concern for Asbury Park, its future, the youth and efforts to affect positive outcomes in the community led him to transfer from Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office in Dec of 2016 to serve as the Associate Council in the Governor’s Office,” Quinn said.

Huth said the CDI was a collaborative effort with then Mayor Ed Johnson and several stakeholders aimed at bringing together all of the leadership in the city in a crime prev capacity.

“Along the way, our Coalition grew to the Greater Asbury Park CDI,” Huth said. “I feel that along the way we have made a difference in people’s lives.”

The mission was to establish crime prevention initiatives at the beginning of people’s lives rather than at the moment of arrest.

“It’s a tremendous game changer for someone to be invited and loved by a community who expresses that by asking you to come into their churches, into their homes, into their schools to talk to their children, and to come into their community centers. The welcoming that Asbury Park has given me is going to resonate with me for the rest of my life.”

Mayor John Moor thanked Huth’s wife.

“He spent thousands of hours in Asbury Park on his own time,” Moor said.

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