Mar 7, 2025 | “No Hate in the Garden State” public awareness campaign. | Acting Executive Assistant Attorney General | advanced technologies | algorithms | artificial intelligence | Civil Rights and Technology Initiative | Civil Rights Innovation Lab | combat pregnancy discrimination | Department of Law and Public Safety | Director of the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights | Disability Discrimination | discrimination against recipients of government rental assistance | discrimination based on prior criminal history | Discrimination in Home Appraisals | hold government institutions and large employers accountable for violating civil rights laws | Housing Discrimination | lawsuits and enforcement proceedings | Leadership Changes | minimum-income requirements for rentals | mortgage redlining | prevent address and remedy discrimination | safeguard students from discrimination in school | state-level initiative | technology | the Division of Consumer Affairs | Division on Civil Rights | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today announced that Sundeep Iyer will serve the Office of Attorney General as Acting Executive Assistant Attorney General, and that he has appointed Yolanda Melville to serve as the Director of the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights, the state agency charged with protecting the civil rights of all New Jersey residents.
Mar 6, 2025 | “Reductions in Force” (RIF) | employee families | Federal Probationary Employees | Lawsuit | Mass Firings | state finances | state-federal partnerships | Trump Administration | unlawful layoffs | veterans | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general in filing a lawsuit against numerous federal agencies for conducting illegal mass layoffs of federal probationary employees.
Mar 6, 2025 | Arizona | California | coalition of 23 attorneys general | Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware | disaster relief funding | drug-trafficking enforcement | Funding Freeze Policy | Hawaii | Illinois | Lawsuit | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Medicaid funding | Memorandum | Michigan | Minnesota | Nevada | New Mexico | New York | North Carolina | Office of Management and Budget (OMB) | Oregon | Preliminary Injunction | Rhode Island | temporary restraining order (TRO) | the District of Columbia | Trump Administration | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island | Vermont | Washington | Wisconsin | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and a coalition of 22 other attorneys general today won a preliminary injunction against the Trump Administration to block its illegal policy freezing funding to states for essential federal agency grants, loans, and other financial assistance programs. Judge John J. McConnell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island today granted the preliminary injunction after Attorney General Platkin and the coalition sued the Trump Administration to stop the funding freeze.
Mar 6, 2025 | California | Colorado | Complaint | Critical Teacher Training Programs | Illinois | Lawsuit | Maryland | Massachusetts | Montclair State University (MSU) | multistate | New York | Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) grant programs | Teacher Quality Partnership (TQP) | The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) | The Teacher Quality Partnership grants | Trump Administration | U.S. Education Department (USED) | Wisconsin | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced that New Jersey is joining with California and Massachusetts to co-lead a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its illegal early termination of U.S. Education Department (USED) grants to fund critical teacher preparation programs.
Mar 5, 2025 | Arizona | biomedical research | California | coalition of 22 attorneys genera | Colorado | Connecticut | cutting billions of dollars in funds | cutting-edge medical and public health research | Delaware | faculty | Hawaii | Illinois | infrastructure | lab | Lawsuit | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Massachusetts v. NIH | Michigan | Minnesota | nationwide preliminary injunction | Nevada | New Mexico | New York | North Carolina | Oregon | Preliminary Injunction | protects critical funds | Research Institutions | Rhode Island | the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) | the National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Trump Administration | Universities | Vermont | Washington | Wisconsin | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and a coalition of 21 other attorneys general have secured a nationwide preliminary injunction in Massachusetts v. NIH. The order prevents the Trump Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from cutting billions of dollars in funds that support cutting-edge medical and public health research at universities and research institutions across the country regardless of whether their states have joined the lawsuit.
