Gov. Phil Murphy’s nominee for Attorney General has picked up a confirmation vote from Senate President Pro-Tempore Sandra Cunningham (D-Jersey City), who praised Matt Platkin for helping her work on issues related to job training and health care while serving as chief counsel to the governor.
“Matt has consistently been willing to listen to broker between departmental and community concerns, and to seek thoughtful alternatives to traditional criminal justice processes,” Cunningham said.
Cunningham said she has worked with the Murphy administration to “expand and strengthen the expungement process, to restore voting rights, and to improve reentry services for persons being released from state prisons and county jails.”
“Matt Platkin has assisted me in further reaching those objectives,” she said. “I look forward to his confirmation in the State Senate.”
Platkin will become the acting attorney general on Monday and assume responsibility for running the state Department of Law and Public Safety as he awaits confirmation by the New Jersey State Senate.