AG Platkin Announces Paterson Will Receive Funding to Run Youth Boxing Programs
After-School Initiative Will Provide Safe Spaces to Youth in Paterson City.
Press Releases : Paterson
AG Platkin: Two Defendants Indicted for Issuing Bogus Paterson City Building Permits, Other Records in Exchange for Payments
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today announced a state grand jury has voted to indict a Paterson housing and zoning inspector as well as an accomplice, charging them for their alleged roles in a conspiracy to accept money in exchange for illegitimate building permits bearing forged signatures, purported to be issued by the City of Paterson.
State Grand Jury Declines to Criminally Charge Paterson Police Detective in Connection with Fatal Shooting in Paterson on December 29, 2021
A state grand jury has voted not to file any criminal charges at the conclusion of its deliberations regarding a fatal police-involved shooting on December 29, 2021, in Paterson.
Attorney General Platkin Announces Paterson’s Participation in New Jersey’s ARRIVE Together Alternative Response Program
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced today that the City of Paterson, New Jersey’s third largest city, will be the first municipality in Passaic County to participate in the Alternative Responses to Reduce Instances of Violence and Escalation (ARRIVE) Together program.
State Grand Jury Criminally Charges Paterson Police Officer In Connection with June 2022 Shooting of Fleeing Man in the Back
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability today announced that a state grand jury has voted to file criminal charges against a Paterson police officer who allegedly shot a fleeing man in the back in June 2022, leaving the victim paralyzed.