Documented timeline 22 events
The record, in brief
A relationship ends. The stalking begins within weeks. It continues for years — across town lines, through organizational mailing lists, through a camera lens pointed at her from public events, from her roof, from inside her building. She delays filing for three years because she knows exactly what he will do when she does. She files anyway.
The courts grant restraining orders. He violates them. He is arrested. The criminal charge is converted to permanent civil restraints — which he signs, and violates three times within the next two months. A judge finds him guilty on all three counts. He is ordered to pay his victim directly, and to pay the State of New Jersey. He refuses to pay for so long that the court orders seizure of his financial records.
Throughout all of this, he tells anyone who will listen that he was found innocent. That it's political. That she made it up. His own signature on his own court documents says otherwise.
What to make of it
This is not a complicated story. It has a paper trail. It has court dates and docket numbers and a judge's signature. It has his signature.
The question worth sitting with is not whether this happened — the record answers that. The question is what it means that a man with this record has spent years seeking public office, building coalitions, and asking for your trust. And what it means that every time someone got close enough to see the record clearly, he told them not to trust what they were reading.
You read it. You decide.
About this site
This site documents, in chronological order, the publicly available court record of Charlie Kratovil's pattern of domestic violence and stalking. Charlie Kratovil is a local journalist and politician in New Brunswick, NJ who has repeatedly claimed he was "found innocent" or that legal actions against him are political.
The documents linked throughout this timeline — police reports, court orders, Facebook messages entered into evidence, and judicial findings — tell a different story: a years-long pattern of physical abuse, stalking, photo surveillance, multiple restraining orders, an arrest for violating one, and a court finding of guilt on three separate violation occasions.
This site is not for profit and never will be. It exists solely to make the public record accessible.