Apr 12, 2024 | 9-8-8 mobile response | A5326/S4250 | ARRIVE Together | Camden County | CCRTs | Community Crisis Response Teams | Essex County | Funding | Grants | Hudson County | Mental health crisis | Mercer County | Middlesex County | Passaic County | Pilot Program | Seabrooks-Washington Community-Led Crisis Response Act | Arrive Together | Behavioral Health | Mental Health | Office of Alternative Community Responses | Press Release
Governor Phil Murphy and Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced today that up to $12 million in funding will be made available to establish the Community Crisis Response Team (CCRT) Pilot Program.
Mar 8, 2024 | concealing misconduct | Essex County | failing to perform background checks | failing to perform drug tests | Guilty Plea | hiring unqualified drivers | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | operating unsafe buses | OPIA | School Bus Company | Child Protection | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Policing Policy | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) announced today that an Essex County-based school bus company and one of its owners pleaded guilty, after hiring unqualified drivers, failing to perform drug tests and background checks, operating unsafe buses, and attempting to conceal their misconduct.
Feb 12, 2024 | Essex County | Fraud | Hunterdon County | Medicaid | Mental Health Clinics | Mercer County | Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor | OIFP | Union County | Warren County | Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor (OIFP) announced today that the State has seized approximately $6.4 million under a final judgment by consent, resolving a case against a now-deceased defendant whose chain of mental health clinics engaged in an elaborate bogus-billing scheme that defrauded Medicaid.
Feb 7, 2024 | Essex County | growth and development | independent | JJC | Juvenile Justice Commission | law-abiding citizens | Newark | productive | Restorative and Transformative Justice Hub | RTJ Hubs | Rutgers University | Juvenile Justice Commission | Juvenile Justice Reform | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Juvenile Justice Commission (JJC) today announced the opening of the first of four planned Restorative and Transformative Justice Hubs (RTJ Hubs) in New Jersey.
Oct 31, 2023 | Atlantic County | Bergen County | Division on Civil Rights | Enforcement Actions | Essex County | Finding of Probable Cause | New Jersey Law Against Discrimination. | Ocean County | Passaic County | Source of Income Discrimination | Union County | Bias and Discrimination | Civil Rights | Division on Civil Rights | Press Release
New Jersey’s Law Against Discrimination Bars Landlords from Discriminating Against Potential Tenants Based on Their Receipt of Government Rental Assistance.
