Breastfeeding mom says worker called police on her on NJ beach

A mom of three is speaking out after a municipal employee called the cops because she was breastfeeding her 2-year-old daughter on a New Jersey beach.

Michelle Ayala said she started breastfeeding her daughter on the beach at a Franklin Borough pond Tuesday when a member of the borough’s recreation committee working at this concession stand approached her.

“She said, ‘I see what you were doing there I would just ask that you do it somewhere else,” Ayala told Eyewitness News.

According to New Jersey State law, breastfeeding in public is permitted, and Ayala said she told the borough employee.

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