A fellow journalist in New Jersey posted this article describing their experience of almost being arrested for washing off their children in a beach stall after going in the ocean.

I'm sure they're a wee bit biased and possibly a bit melodramatic but it does sound like an initial police officer at the beach thought the children being naked was against the community's law and wanted to see the family punished.

It's an interesting and amusing read. I'll leave it up to you to decide if you go to Spring Lake with your family.