Mar 11, 2025 | Advance Funding Partners/Same Day Funding | African | Chinese | DCR | denying services | Discrimination | Division on Civil Rights | employment discrimination | Finding of Probable Cause | Hostile Work Environment | lending discrimination | loan applicants | national origin | nationality | New Jersey Law Against Discrimination. | NJ LAD | Ocean | offensive memes | race | racist | Spanish | subpeona | verified complaint | Addressing Hate, Bias & Discrimination | Bias and Discrimination | Civil Rights | Division on Civil Rights | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division on Civil Rights (DCR) announced today that DCR has issued a Finding of Probable Cause alleging that Advance Funding Partners/Same Day Funding (Advance Funding), a New Jersey business that provides cash advances and loans to borrowers, violated the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD) by engaging in unlawful lending discrimination and employment discrimination.
Mar 11, 2025 | cancelled courses | create a new teacher pipeline | Early Court Decision | Grants | hard-to-staff school districts | improve teacher quality | larger class sizes | math | Montclair State University (MSU) | Preliminary Injunction | science | special education | Teacher Quality Partnership and Supporting Effective Educator Development grant programs | teacher residency program | teacher shortages | temporary restraining order | The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) | The U.S. Department of Education | train teachers | Trump Administration | Unlawful Termination of K-12 Teacher Preparation Pipeline Grants | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today secured a decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts temporarily blocking the Trump Administration’s unlawful termination of K-12 teacher preparation pipeline grants while the states seek a preliminary injunction.
Mar 10, 2025 | Division of Law | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced that the State of New Jersey secured over half a million dollars from a surety company, International Fidelity Insurance Company (IFIC), and its parent, I.A.T. Insurance Group (IAT), to resolve a whistleblower lawsuit accusing them of improperly keeping monies of New Jersey residents in the form of unused collateral in violation of the New Jersey False Claims Act and the New Jersey Uniform Unclaimed Property Act.
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.
