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A top New Jersey cop spewed an offensive remark about the Jewish attorney general and his young son on “Bring Your Child to Work Day this Year,” according to a newly revealed complaint.
The state Attorney General's Office sued Hanover Township in Morris County and three Monmouth County school districts last year for enacting policies Platkin said could "out" transgender students ...
Last year, the New Jersey State Police employed 173 female troopers, which was roughly 5% of the agency's 3,264 officers. In 2022, there were 174 female troopers and 171 in 2021, data from the ...
Alexander Griffith was the first Colonial New Jersey Attorney General. 1714 –1719: Thomas Burnett Gordon (17 April 1652—April 28, 1722) was a Scottish emigrant to the Thirteen Colonies who became Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court and New Jersey Attorney General for the Province of New Jersey. [3] 1719 –1723: Jeremiah Basse
On February 3, 2022, Governor Murphy announced that he was appointing Platkin to serve as Acting Attorney General. Platkin assumed office on February 14, 2022, succeeding Andrew Bruck as Acting Attorney General. [8] [9] He assumed the position in full on September 29, 2022, after the confirmation of his appointment by the New Jersey State ...
Although New Jersey is a Democratic-leaning state, having last backed a Republican for governor in Chris Christie's landslide 2013 re-election and for President in 1988, recent statewide elections have been notably competitive: in 2021, Governor Murphy was re-elected by 3.2 points, considerably down from his 14.1-point victory in 2017.
Matthew Platkin, the attorney general of New Jersey. “The cases prosecuted by the Corruption Bureau tend to be high-profile, high-stakes, and complex,” said Platkin.
The Agriculture Retention and Development Act was created as part of New Jersey's efforts to counteract the loss of farmland in the state. The legislation formed the basis needed for the state to purchase the easements of New Jersey farms in order to ensure they remain as farms, and could never be sold for housing or for non-farming commercial development.