Jan 9, 2025 | AI | Artificial Intelligence Task Force | automated decision-making tools | bias | Civil Rights and Technology Initiative | Civil Rights Innovation Lab | Contracting | credit | DCR | diverse communities | Division on Civil Rights | Employment | Guidance on Algorithmic Discrimination | housing | innovation | New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD) | places of public accommodation | technological innovations | 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 that DCR has launched a new Civil Rights and Technology Initiative to address the risks of discrimination and bias-based harassment stemming from the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other advanced technologies.
Jan 7, 2025 | "Advocate Form" | Affirmative Civil Enforcement Practice Group | against medical advice | aneurysm | cheap labor | Colonia | Conspiracy to Conceal | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division of Law | Enforcement Bureau | Final Consent Order | Harboring Aliens | Household Servants | housekeepers | India | medically compromised | Physician Sentenced to Federal Prison | Professional Boards Prosecution Section | Revoked License | rheumatology practice | State Board of Medical Examiners | verified complaint | Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey’s Community Health Center | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division of Law | Immigrants' Rights | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Consumer Affairs announced that the State Board of Medical Examiners has permanently revoked the medical license of a Central Jersey physician facing 27 months in federal prison for conspiring with others to illegally recruit, conceal, and harbor two women from India to be household servants for low pay.
Jan 7, 2025 | Antitrust Litigation Competition Enforcement Assistant Section | Building Services Companies | competitive labor market | Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) | Guardian Service Industries | improved wages and benefits | Inc. (“Guardian”) | Inc. (“Planned”) | limitation of competition | New York | No-Poach Agreements | Planned Building Services | residential and commercial buildings | restriction of employment opportunities | Settlements | Suppression of wages | Workers' Rights | Defending our Workforce | Division of Law | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and New York Attorney General Letitia James announced settlements with Guardian Service Industries, Inc. (“Guardian”), and Planned Building Services, Inc. (“Planned”), as well as Planned’s affiliated companies, concerning the use of illegal no-poach agreements.
Jan 2, 2025 | Affirmative Civil Enforcement Practice Group | Bodywork | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division of Law | Enforcement Bureau | female client | gross negligence | inappropriate | incompetence | License revocation | malpractice | Massage Therapist | permanent revocation | Professional Boards Prosecution Section | rules of professional conduct | sexual misconduct | unwanted sexual contact | verified complaint | Verona | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division of Law | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey Consumers | Protecting New Jersey in Court | Sexual Assault Victims
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Consumer Affairs announced that the New Jersey Board of Massage and Bodywork Therapy (“Board”) has permanently revoked the license of an Essex County massage therapist amid allegations he engaged in inappropriate and unwanted sexual contact with a female client during a massage session.
Dec 20, 2024 | Attorney General Directive 2019-4 | autopsy | body-worn camera | Death in Custody | Independent Prosecutor Directive | medical records | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) | Paterson Police Department Headquarters | standard operating procedures (SOPs) | State Grand Jury | state medical examiner | surveillance footage | toxicology | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release | Public Integrity
A state grand jury has voted not to file any criminal charges at the conclusion of its deliberations regarding the death of an individual from Paterson, New Jersey, who died on February 18, 2022, while in custody at the Paterson Police Department.