May 10, 2024 | cold-case investigations | Conviction Review Unit | Conviction Review Unit (CRU) | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | OPIA | overturned convictions | Public Defender | sexual assaults | Sussex County Prosecutor | unsolved homicides | violent crimes | Conviction Review Unit | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release | Public Integrity
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and OPIA Executive Director Drew Skinner today announced the appointment of a new director of the Conviction Review Unit (CRU), selecting a former longtime public defender in the Monmouth County trial region and current chief of staff in the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) to take on the role.
May 9, 2024 | “free” phone offers | “unlimited” data advertisements | Assurance of Voluntary Compliance (AVC) | AT&T | material conditions | material limitations | misleading and confusing advertising and sales tactics | monetary incentives to “switch” wireless networks | multistate | Settlement | T-Mobile | Verizon Wireless | Wireless Carriers | Consumer Protection | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division of Law | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Consumer Affairs, together with 50 other attorneys general, announced a $10.25 million agreement with the nation’s largest cell phone companies to resolve an investigation into their allegedly misleading and confusing advertising and sales tactics.
May 9, 2024 | “Hate Has No Home in Ocean County” Initiative | Attorney General’s Initiative Award | Detective Joseph Seals Valor Award | Excellence in Policing Awards | Franklin Police Department | Greater Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church Outstanding Youth Engagement Award | Hackettstown Police Department | Lakewood Community Coalition | Lakewood Police Department | Lifetime Achievement Award | Milltown Police Department | Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office | National Police Week | Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office | Outstanding Community Partnership Award | Pablo Santiago Resiliency Award | Plainfield Police Department | Police Chaplain of the Year | Queen City Mentoring Academy | Salvation and Social Justice | Excellence in Policing | Policing Policy | Press Release
For Immediate Release: May 9, 2024 Office of the Attorney General- Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General For Further Information: Media Inquiries-Mariluz Garcia-DiazOAGpress@njoag.gov View Livestream TRENTON — Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today announced the...
May 8, 2024 | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division on Civil Rights | Home Appraisal Discrimination Initiative | Interagency Task Force on Property Appraisal Valuation Equity | New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD) | New Jersey State Real Estate Appraiser Board | Newark NAACP | NJHMFA’s First-Time Homebuyer Program | Wealth Disparity Task Force | Addressing Hate, Bias & Discrimination | Bias and Discrimination | Civil Rights | Consumer Protection | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division on Civil Rights | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey Consumers
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced today that the Division on Civil Rights (DCR) and Division of Consumer Affairs (DCA) have launched several new public education resources as part of Attorney General Platkin’s Home Appraisal Discrimination Initiative.
May 1, 2024 | Attorney General Directive 2019-4 | Beachwood | Fatal Crash | Fatal Police Involved Encounter | Investigations | Monmouth County | Ocean Township | OPIA | Route 35 South | Sunset Avenue | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release | Public Integrity
The Attorney General’s Office today identified the decedent and the officer from a fatal crash involving an Ocean Township police vehicle that occurred on April 15, 2024, in Ocean Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Apr 25, 2024 | Chatsworth Deli | DEP | Environmental Enforcement Actions | Environmental Justice Communities | Environmental Lawsuits | FM Equities | Gas Mart | Hidden Mills Associates | Judgment | Little Mason | McWane Ductile | Shell Portfolio/Pontus Capital | Wilenta Feed | DD-EnvironmentalJustice | Division of Law | Environmental Justice | Press Release | Securing Environmental Justice
Court Enters Judgement in DEP’s Favor in One Case, Another Case Settles For Immediate Release: April 25, 2024 Office of the Attorney General- Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney GeneralDivision of Law- Michael T.G. Long, Director For Further Information: Media...
