Apr 18, 2024 | Attorney General Directive 2024-02 | Forensic Science | Hamilton | Law Enforcement Guidelines | New Jersey State Police Forensic Technology Center | Sexual Assault | Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) | Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) | Sexual Assault Responses | Sexual Violence Prevention Symposium | Trenton | Division of Criminal Justice | Division of Violence Intervention and Victim Assistance | Press Release | Sexual Assault Victims | Violence Intervention
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today announced he has issued a Directive to law enforcement that expands the standard Sexual Assault Response Team activation period from five to seven days from when the incident is reported to have occurred, providing survivors of sexual assault more time to access the trauma-informed services consistent with enhancements in medical and forensic science.
Apr 15, 2024 | “clean slate” law | Backlog Reduction | Division of Criminal Justice | Expungement orders | New Jersey State Police | NJSP Expungement Unit | NJSP Software Programming Unit | Second Chance Agenda | Division of Criminal Justice | New Jersey State Police | Press Release
Governor Phil Murphy, Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin, the New Jersey State Police (NJSP), and the Division of Criminal Justice today announced a 117% increase in processed final expungement orders from 2022 to 2023 and a nearly 70% reduction in the number of pending applications from its peak.
Apr 5, 2024 | Division of Criminal Justice | New Jersey State Police | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin, the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ), and the New Jersey State Police today announced that eight people have been arrested and charged after law enforcement executed search warrants at a Cumberland County compound and two other locations related to a dogfighting network.
Apr 2, 2024 | DCJ Worker Protection and Fair Labor Enforcement Unit | Division of Criminal Justice | Tampering with Public Records | The New Jersey Department of Labor & Workforce Development (NJDOL) | Theft by Deception | theft of identity | U.S. Department of Labor's Office of the Inspector General | Unemployment Fraud | Defending our Workforce | Division of Criminal Justice | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) today announced a multi-month initiative to investigate and prosecute unemployment fraud, which resulted in cases against 20 defendants, who allegedly stole over $1.1 million collectively from New Jersey’s unemployment insurance trust fund.
Mar 17, 2024 | Division of Criminal Justice | Mercer County Prosecutor's Office | New Jersey State Police | Trenton | Trenton Police Department | Combating Gun Violence | Division of Criminal Justice | New Jersey State Police | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the New Jersey State Police, the Division of Criminal Justice, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office, and the Trenton Police Department today announced the arrest of a 26-year-old man suspected of three murders in Pennsylvania and two carjackings.
Mar 7, 2024 | 2021 | 2022 | anti-Arab | anti-Black | anti-Jewish | anti-Muslim | Antisemitism | Bias Crimes Public Awareness Campaign | Bias Incident Dashboard | Bias Incident Report | bias intimidation | Black | hate | Hispanic | Islamophobia | Jewish | Latinx/e | No Hate in the Garden State | Office of Justice Data | Preliminary Data | statistics | The Department of Law and Public Safety (LPS) | Addressing Hate, Bias & Discrimination | Bias and Discrimination | Civil Rights | Division of Criminal Justice | Division on Civil Rights | Office of Justice Data | Press Release | Racial Justice
Public Awareness Bias Campaign and Interactive Public Bias Data Dashboard Launched to Help Combat Rising Number of Bias Incidents For Immediate Release: March 7, 2024 Office of the Attorney General- Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General For Further Information: Media...
