Feb 19, 2025 | Beachwood | certain persons not to have weapons | Conspiracy | Division of Criminal Justice | drugs | Firearms | ghost guns | Gun Violence Reduction Task Force | illegal possession and distribution | manufacture transport disposition and defacement of a weapon | methamphetamine | New Jersey State Police’s Crime Suppression South Unit | Ocean County | possession of a controlled dangerous substance | possession of a defaced firearm | possession of a firearm without a serial number | possession of a handgun | possession of a large capacity ammunition magazine | possession of an assault firearm | possession of brass knuckles | possession of methamphetamine | Stafford Township Police Department | three counts of possession of a shotgun | transporting a manufactured firearm without a serial number | Whiting | Combating Gun Violence | Division of Criminal Justice | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Criminal Justice announced that two Ocean County residents were indicted on charges of illegal possession and distribution of firearms and drugs.
Feb 13, 2025 | 14 Attorneys General | Birthright | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Constitution | Delaware | Executive Order | Fourteenth Amendment | Hawaii | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Nevada | New Jersey | New Mexico | New York | North Carolina | Preliminary Injunction | Rhode Island | statement | the City of San Francisco | the District of Columbia | Trump Administration | unconstitutional | Vermont | Wisconsin | Attorney General Statement | Division on Civil Rights | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin joined in the response to a preliminary injunction being granted by a federal judge against President Trump’s unconstitutional executive order terminating birthright citizenship in the multi-state lawsuit led by New Jersey.
Feb 10, 2025 | 24 attorneys general | disaster relief | District of Rhode Island | Elon Musk | Freezing Federal Funds | Head Start | law enforcement programs | litigation | Medicaid | Motion to Enforce | Trump Administration | VP Vance | Attorney General Statement | DD-FederalFunding | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following statement in response to the District of Rhode Island’s decision to enforce the court’s prior order preventing the Trump Administration from implementing its freeze of up to $3 trillion in federal funding.
Feb 10, 2025 | Bergen County | Consent Decree | denying housing opportunities | Division on Civil Rights (DCR) | Enforcement Actions | Essex County | Findings of Probable Cause | government rental assistance | Housing Rights Initiative (HRI) | Howard Hanna Rand Realty | Hudson County | KP Edgestone Realty LLC | Monmouth County | New and Modern Group LLC | New Jersey Law Against Discrimination. | Opirhory Realtors | Passaic County | Property Advisers LLC d/b/a/ Better Home Realty | Property Owners | real estate brokerages | real estate brokers | Settlements | source of lawful income | United Real Estate | violations | Addressing Hate, Bias & Discrimination | Civil Rights | DCR Investigations and Enforcement | DD-CivilRights | Division on Civil Rights | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division on Civil Rights (DCR) today announced that DCR has taken enforcement action in 20 cases alleging violations of the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination’s (LAD)
Feb 9, 2025 | "deferred resignation" | “Fork in the Road” directive | 21 state attorneys general | accept a legally fraught “buyout” | AFGE Local 3707 | Arizona | California | Colorado | Connecticut | County and Municipal Employees | Delaware | Donald Trump | Elon Musk | federal employees | federal ethics regulations | Hawaii | Illinois | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Nevada | New York | North Carolina | Oregon | potential termination | Rhode Island | the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) | the American Federation of State | the District of Columbia | the National Association of Government Employees | the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) | Trump administration’s federal “buyout” plan | Vermont | Washington | DD-FederalFunding | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today joined a coalition of 21 state attorneys general, standing with the nation’s federal employees in a challenge to the Trump administration’s federal “buyout” plan. The so-called “Fork in the Road” directive is an attempt to force federal workers to choose, with only days to decide, between accepting a legally fraught “buyout” and potentially being terminated.
