Apr 29, 2025 | addiction recovery | AmeriCorps | education of special needs students | educational | environmental needs | Funding | independent federal agency | mass layoffs | meaningful community-based service | mentoring programs | national disasters | operations | programs | Public Safety | recovery programs | relief program | urban areas | volunteer and service efforts terminated | DD-FederalFunding | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin filed a lawsuit with a coalition of 23 attorneys general challenging the Trump Administration’s dismantling of AmeriCorps, an independent federal agency that addresses the country’s educational, public safety, and environmental needs by engaging Americans in meaningful community-based service.
Dec 6, 2024 | 130 law enforcement agencies | crackdown | Division of Highway Traffic Safety | Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over | Funding | Grantee List | high-visibility sobriety checkpoints | Holiday Season | HTS | Impaired Driving | Nationwide Campaign to Promote Safer Roadways | saturation patrols | Division of Highway Traffic Safety | Highway Safety | Press Release
With the winter holidays fast approaching, Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Highway Traffic Safety (“HTS”) announced the kick-off of a statewide “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” enforcement crackdown on impaired driving.
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.
Jan 19, 2024 | Funding | New Jersey Trauma Recovery Center | NOAF | Violence Intervention Programming | VIVA | Division of Violence Intervention and Victim Assistance | Press Release | Victims of Crime Compensation Office | VIVA
Governor Phil Murphy and Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced today that an additional $3 million in federal Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) funds have been made available through a notice of funding to support New Jersey’s Trauma Recovery Center (TRC) Program.
