Tag: Attorney General
More Schools Reconsider Transgender Student Policies
The Holmdel Board of Education voted during its Sept. 27 meeting to abolish its transgender student policy, state Department of Education guidance Policy 5756. A second confirmation vote, slated for its next regular meeting in October, will officially repeal the policy if it passes. Until then, Policy 5756 remains in effect.
No Fraud in ’22 Local Elections, State Concludes
The state cleared up confusion about last year’s general election in a recent report, noting a software error was to blame for incorrect vote counts. The report discloses why in four Monmouth County municipalities, some votes were counted twice.
Transgender Student Policy Ignites Local vs. State Legal Battle
The township board of education went to court Tuesday against state Attorney General Matthew Platkin and the director of the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights Sundeep Iyer over a controversial transgender student policy revision.
Partisan Pushback Over Transgender School Policy Changes
Following the adoption of transgender student policy revisions last week by three county school boards, state Attorney General Matthew Platkin quickly filed lawsuits to halt the changes. Area Republican legislators were seemingly just as quick to fire back.
