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 18, 2024 | diagnostic testing | emergency room | gross incompetence | gross malpractice | gross negligence | License revocation | North Jersey Emergency Room Doctor | Overlook Medical Center | Patient Death | State Board of Medical Examiners | Summit | Wayne NJ | Consumer Protection | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division of Law | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey Consumers
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Consumer Affairs today announced that the State Board of Medical Examiners has permanently revoked the medical license of a North Jersey emergency room doctor for alleged conduct that resulted in a patient’s death at Overlook Medical Center in Summit, New Jersey, in 2017.
Apr 17, 2024 | 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 Findings of Probable Cause in 10 cases alleging that landlords and real estate agents violated the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD) by denying housing to individuals who stated that they wished to pay their rent using Section 8 vouchers, a form of government rental assistance.
Apr 16, 2024 | Fatal Crash | Motorized Scooter | Multiple vehicle collision | Ocean Township | Ocean Township Police Officer | OPIA | Route 35 | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release | Public Integrity
For Immediate Release: April 16, 2024 Office of the Attorney General – Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General Office of Public Integrity and Accountability – Thomas J. Eicher, Executive Director For Further Information: Media Inquiries- Dan Prochilo...
Apr 16, 2024 | 000 feet of school property | Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (ALKQN) street gang | Conspiracy | Corruption Bureau of the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) | Financial facilitation of criminal activity | gang member | Grand Jury | Hamilton | Indictment | Mercer County Prosecutor's Office | Pattern of official misconduct | Possession of CDS with intention to distribute within 1 | Possession of marijuana with intent to distribute | possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute | Tampering with public records (3rd degree) Official misconduct | Trenton Police Officer | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release | Public Integrity
For Immediate Release: April 16, 2024 Office of the Attorney General – Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General Office of Public Integrity and Accountability – Thomas J. Eicher, Executive Director For Further Information: Media Inquiries- Dan Prochilo...
Apr 15, 2024 | Division of Consumer Affairs | observers | patient protections | patients' rights | preventing sexual misconduct by physicians | professional settings | Proposed Rules | sexual misconduct and abuse | Consumer Protection | Division of Consumer Affairs | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey Consumers | Protecting New Jersey in Court | Sexual Assault Victims | Statutes, Regulations & Rules
Advancing New Jersey’s ongoing efforts to combat sexual misconduct and abuse in professional settings, Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Consumer Affairs (“Division”) today announced the publication of proposed rules to enhance and expand patient protections and help prevent sexual misconduct by physicians.
