Apr 30, 2025 | City Council Seat | forged ballots and voter registrations | Haledon | new charges | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) | Paterson City Council President Alex Mendez | Paterson resident | Paterson’s May 2020 municipal election | stole ballots | superseding indictment | Third Ward | three alleged co-conspirators | Vote-By-Mail | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court | Public Integrity
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) announced that Paterson City Council President Alex Mendez along with three alleged co-conspirators and another Paterson resident are facing new charges in a superseding indictment that alleges they stole ballots, forged ballots and voter registrations, and submitted them to help Mendez win Paterson’s May 2020 municipal election.
Apr 29, 2025 | 911 Call | Alternative Responses to Reduce Instances of Violence and Escalation (ARRIVE) Together program | autopsy results | ballistics reports | Body-Worn Camera Footage | CED (Taser) | emergency medical services (EMS) | Emergency Services Unit (“ESU”) | Fatal Police Shooting | Hudson County Sheriff's Office | Independent Prosecutor Directive of 2019 | Investigation | Jersey City | Jersey City Medical Center (JCMC) | medical examiner | mental-health incident | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | photographs | Randolph Avenue | State Grand Jury | witness interviews | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release | Public Integrity
A state grand jury has voted not to file any criminal charges at the conclusion of its deliberations regarding the death of an individual from Jersey City, New Jersey, who was fatally shot by Jersey City Police Officer Stephen Gigante on August 27, 2023.
Apr 28, 2025 | A-1 Elegant Tours | American Star Transportation LLC | anticorruption profiteering penalty | decade-long ban from doing business with the State | Eastern Star Transportation | false representations for a government contract | Guilty Plea | hiring practices | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | OPIA | Paterson Bus Company | safety of its bus fleet | school buses | second-degree crime | six-figure penalty | Unqualified Drivers | Child Protection | Consumer Protection | Press Release | Public Integrity
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) announced that a Paterson school bus company pleaded guilty to a second-degree crime, and agreed to pay a six-figure penalty and face a decade-long ban from doing business with the State, after it put unqualified drivers behind the wheels of school buses and deceived school districts about its hiring practices and the safety of its bus fleet.
Apr 21, 2025 | 911 Call | active shooter | Columbia Street | East Stroudsburg | Fatal Police Encounter | footage | Independent Prosecutor Directive | Knowlton | Lehigh Valley Hospital | medical episode | Mount Pocono Regional | New Jersey State Troopers | NJSP | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) | one female victim | Pennsylvania | police body-worn cameras | radio and communication transmissions | Warren County | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release | Public Integrity
The Attorney General’s Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) released footage from police body-worn cameras, as well as radio and communication transmissions and a 911 call, capturing the events surrounding an individual’s death on February 12, 2024 following an encounter with New Jersey State Troopers
Apr 11, 2025 | "No Bill" | 911 call domestic dispute | Attorney General Directive 2019-4 | autopsy results | ballistics results | Fatal Police Shooting | Hamilton | Independent Prosecutor Directive | interviews | intoxicated | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) | photographs | review of body worn camera footage | standard operating procedures (SOPs) | State Grand Jury | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release | Public Integrity
A state grand jury has voted not to file any criminal charges at the conclusion of its deliberations regarding the death of a Hamilton Township man who was fatally shot while exchanging gunfire with two Hamilton police officers, striking one of them, on March 8, 2024.
Mar 28, 2025 | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release | Public Integrity
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of Public Integrity & Accountability (OPIA) announced the filing of criminal charges against a suspended information technology employee with the Department of Children and Families (DCF), who allegedly accepted unlawful payments to provide case assistance and confidential information to two individuals who had separate matters being handled by DCF.
