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Attorney General Platkin Announces Leadership Changes in Department of Law and Public Safety

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Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today announced that Sundeep Iyer will serve the Office of Attorney General as Acting Executive Assistant Attorney General, and that he has appointed Yolanda Melville to serve as the Director of the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights, the state agency charged with protecting the civil rights of all New Jersey residents.