Feb 4, 2025 | ARRIVE Together | ARRIVE Together Alternative Response Program | ARRIVE Together Initiative | Jersey's National Model | NJ Residents | Arrive Together | Attorney General Statement | Office of Alternative Community Responses | Press Release | Strengthening Police-Community Relations
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced today that the adoption of the Alternative Responses to Reduce Instances of Violence and Escalation (ARRIVE) Together program in Brick Township and Toms River Township makes the landmark program available to residents of the state’s 15 most populous municipalities. Both police departments will partner with Bright Harbor Healthcare for the provision of mental health services during ARRIVE interactions with the public. According to 2020 census data, Brick has a population of more than 73,000 residents and Toms River has more than 95,000 residents.
Feb 3, 2025 | Affirmative Civil Enforcement Practice Group | cardiologist | Consent Order | criminal matters | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division of Law | family medicine | fourth-degree criminal sexual contact | Haledon | Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office | Jersey City | North Jersey Physicians | permanently revoked licenses | pretrial intervention program (“PTI”) | Professional Boards Prosecution Section | second-degree sexual assault | sexual contact during professional interactions | sexual misconduct | State Board of Medical Examiners (“Board”) | Division of Consumer Affairs | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey Consumers | Sexual Assault Victims
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Consumer Affairs announced that the State Board of Medical Examiners (“Board”) has permanently revoked the licenses of two North Jersey physicians charged in unrelated criminal matters involving alleged sexual misconduct in the workplace.
Jan 30, 2025 | Children | distributing images of child sexual abuse | dubauch the morals of a child | film | homemade content | husband and wife | image and video files | intent to distribute | Law Enforcement Officers | Mercer County Officers | multiple media files | National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) | New Jersey State Police | nude images | photographs | reproduction | sexual acts | Sexual Crimes | sexual offenses against children | Child Protection | Division of Criminal Justice | Press Release | Sexual Assault Victims
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) announced that a husband and wife – both law enforcement officers working in different departments within Mercer County – have been charged in connection with their respective roles in creating, producing, and distributing images of child sexual abuse.
Jan 24, 2025 | corruption profiteering penalties | crashes | drug problems | East Hanover | East Orange-based F&A Transportation Inc. | Essex County Criminal Division | Essex County School Bus Company | false representation for a government contract | improper licenses | New Jersey Superior Court | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Official Misconduct | OPIA | pretrial intervention program | prison | risking the lives of children | Sentencing | Tampering with public records or information | Unqualified Drivers | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release | Public Integrity
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) announced the sentencing of the owner of an Essex County-based school bus company that failed to perform drug tests and background checks on drivers — one of whom later crashed — as well as operating unsafe buses and trying to cover up the misconduct.
Jan 21, 2025 | Birthright citizenship | California | citizenship | City of San Francisco | Colorado | Connecticut | Constitutional Rights | Delaware | Dred Scott | Executive Order | Fourteenth Amendment | Hawaii | Immigrants' Rights | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Nevada | New Mexico | New York | North Carolina | President Trump | Rhode Island | Right to Vote | run for office | serve on juries | Social Security numbers | Supreme Court | the District of Columbia | the Immigration and Nationality Act | unlawful action | Vermont | Wisconsin | work lawfully | Addressing Hate, Bias & Discrimination | Bias and Discrimination | Child Protection | Equity & Inclusion | Immigrants' Rights | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
As President Trump Issues Order Ending Birthright Citizenship, New Jersey Leads 18 States in Defending Basic Constitutional Rights for All Americans.
Jan 16, 2025 | appealing to children | bright packaging | California | candy | chocolate | civil investigative demands | Coalition | Connecticut | distributing | Division of Consumer Affairs | e-cigarette retailers | e-cigarettes | electronic cigarettes | enforcement tools | flavored vapor products | fruit | Hawaii | Illinois | importing | lawsuits | licensing and consumer protection laws | marketing flavored e-cigarettes | Minnesota | New Jersey | New Jersey joins California | New York | Ohio | rise in tobacco sales | selling | subpoenas | to filing lawsuits | Tobacco | Vermont | warning letters | Washington D.C. | Child Protection | Consumer Protection | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division of Law | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey Consumers
Advancing efforts to protect New Jerseyans from the hazards of electronic cigarettes, Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced that the Division of Consumer Affairs sent letters to nearly 11,000 New Jersey businesses reminding them that selling flavored vapor products is unlawful and directing them to cease any such sales immediately.
