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AI Laws in Morristown, New Jersey
As of 2026-06-17, AI Laws USA tracks 19 AI rules that apply to people and businesses in Morristown, New Jersey: 10+ federal protections, 8 New Jersey state-level rules, and 1 local Morristown ordinance. Coverage is strongest on consumer protection, automated decision-making, AI hiring and employment, and AI disclosure and transparency. 8 of these rules are already in effect. Each entry below links to its official source.
Morristown local AI rules
1 local AI rule specific to Morristown, New Jersey.
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Proposed / pending Proposed or pending
Morristown NJ DC Zoning
Morristown, NJ · TAPinto Morristown, June 2026
Morristown, New Jersey's Town Council introduced a zoning amendment restricting data centers to designated industrial zones and requiring conditional-use approval.
New Jersey-level AI rules
8 New Jersey state rules apply to residents and businesses in Morristown. Sorted strongest first.
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In effect Moderate protection
NJ AG Platkin / DCR
NJ · Effective 2025-01-09 · NJ AG Platkin / DCR — Guidance on Algorithmic Discrimination and the NJLAD (2025-01-09)
13-page guidance affirming NJLAD applies to ADS-driven discrimination in employment, housing, credit, public accommodations. Launches Civil Rights and Technology Initiative and Civil Rights Innovation Lab.
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In effect Moderate protection
NJ Supreme Court GenAI Notice
NJ · Effective 2024-01-25 · NJ Supreme Court Notice (Jan. 25, 2024)
The New Jersey Supreme Court issued a binding notice requiring lawyers using generative AI to comply with the Rules of Professional Conduct, including verifying citations, protecting client confidentiality, and supervising AI output. Sanctions follow citation hallucination.
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In effect Limited protection
New Jersey Data Protection Act
New Jersey · Effective 2025-01-15 · P.L.2024, c.9 (N.J. SB 332)
New Jersey's comprehensive privacy law grants residents rights to access, correct, delete, and port personal data and to opt out of data sales and targeted advertising. Controllers must get opt-in consent for sensitive data (health, biometric, precise location) and honor universal opt-out signals since July 2025.
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In effect Limited protection
NJ DOI AI Bulletin
NJ · Effective 2025-02-11 · New Jersey DOBI Insurance Bulletin 25-03 (2025-02-11)
The NJ Department of Insurance adopted the NAIC Model Bulletin on Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems by Insurers. Insurers licensed in NJ must maintain a written AI program with governance, risk-management, testing, third-party-AI oversight, and documentation controls. The bulletin operationalizes existing unfair-trade-practice and unfair-discrimination law as applied to insurers' AI use cases — underwriting, pricing, claims, fraud detection, and marketing.
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In effect Limited protection
NJ Bot Disclosure Act (bots must identify themselves)
New Jersey · Effective 2020-07-19 · N.J.S.A. 56:18-1 et seq.; P.L. 2019, c.486
New Jersey makes it unlawful to use an online bot to communicate or interact with a person in the state in order to deceive them about the bot's artificial identity, when the goal is to sell or advertise merchandise or real estate, or to solicit support for a candidate, party, or ballot question in an election. The use of the bot is allowed if it is clearly and conspicuously disclosed up front. The Attorney General enforces the law and can pursue civil penalties.
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In effect Limited protection
NJ N.J.A.C. 13:16 (bias law covers AI hiring tools)
New Jersey · Effective 2025-12-15 · N.J.A.C. 13:16 (R.2025 d.150); N.J.S.A. 10:5-1 et seq.
New Jersey's Division on Civil Rights adopted rules confirming that the state's Law Against Discrimination reaches automated employment decision tools, including AI, that automate, aid, or replace human employment decision-making. The rules define such tools broadly and give concrete examples of how they can produce a disparate impact on applicants and employees in protected classes. Employers remain responsible even for vendor-supplied tools.
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In effect Limited protection
NJ Deceptive AI Deepfakes Act
New Jersey · Effective 2025-04-02 · P.L.2025, c.40 (N.J. A3540/S2544)
New Jersey's omnibus deepfake law establishes criminal and civil penalties for producing or distributing deceptive AI audio/video used to facilitate crimes — including sexual exploitation of minors, harassment, extortion, and election interference. Violations are a third-degree crime carrying up to five years and fines up to $30,000, and victims can sue.
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In effect Limited protection
NJ EO 346 (AI Task Force)
NJ · Effective 2023-10-10 · N.J. Exec. Order No. 346 (Oct. 10, 2023)
Governor Murphy's EO 346 created New Jersey's AI Task Force to study societal impacts of AI and recommend ethical-use policies for state government. It directs state agencies to inventory their AI use and coordinate with the Task Force on guidance.
Federal AI rules that apply in Morristown, New Jersey
These federal protections apply everywhere in the United States, including Morristown, New Jersey. Showing the 10 strongest and most recent.
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In effect Stronger protection
Bartz v. Anthropic
N.D. Cal. · Effective 2025-09-05 · Bartz v. Anthropic PBC, No. 3:24-cv-05417 (N.D. Cal.)
Authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson sued Anthropic over its use of pirated-book datasets to train Claude. In June 2025 Judge William Alsup issued a split ruling: training on lawfully purchased books was fair use, but ingesting pirated copies from LibGen was not. In September 2025 Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion class settlement — the largest AI copyright recovery to date.
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In effect Stronger protection
Banner v. Tesla (Autopilot)
S.D. Fla. · Effective 2025-08-01 · Banner v. Tesla, Inc., No. 1:21-cv-21940 (S.D. Fla. Aug. 1, 2025)
A Florida federal jury found Tesla 33% liable in August 2025 for the 2019 death of Naibel Benavides Leon, in a crash involving Autopilot. The verdict awarded $243M (later reduced to ~$220M) — the first Autopilot wrongful-death verdict against Tesla.
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In effect Stronger protection
COPPA + 2025 Rule (childrens data)
United States · Effective 2025-06-23 · 15 U.S.C. §§ 6501–6506; 16 C.F.R. Part 312
COPPA requires online services aimed at children under 13 to get verifiable parental consent before collecting kids' personal data. The 2025 rule update — fully in effect since April 22, 2026 — adds biometric identifiers (like face templates and voiceprints, which matter for AI tools), requires separate parental consent before sharing children's data for targeted advertising, and tightens data retention limits.
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In effect Stronger protection
TAKE IT DOWN Act
United States · Effective 2025-05-19 · Pub. L. No. 119-12 (S. 146)
Makes it a federal crime to knowingly publish intimate images of someone without consent, including AI-generated deepfakes. Social media and similar platforms must give victims a way to request removal and must take the content (and known copies) down within 48 hours. The platform removal requirement became enforceable May 19, 2026, and the FTC has already begun enforcement.
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In effect Stronger protection
Thaler v. Perlmutter (Copyright)
D.C. Cir. · Effective 2025-03-18 · Thaler v. Perlmutter, 130 F.4th 1039 (D.C. Cir. 2025)
The companion copyright case: Stephen Thaler sought to register a copyright with 'Creativity Machine' (his AI) as the author. The D.C. Circuit affirmed in March 2025 that the Copyright Act's human-authorship requirement is constitutional and dispositive. AI cannot be a copyright author under U.S. law.
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In effect Stronger protection
Thomson Reuters v. Ross
D. Del. · Effective 2025-02-11 · Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH v. Ross Intelligence, Inc., 694 F. Supp. 3d 467 (D. Del. 2025)
Thomson Reuters sued legal-research startup Ross Intelligence in 2020 for copying Westlaw headnotes to train a competing AI legal-research tool. In February 2025, Judge Stephanos Bibas (sitting by designation) granted summary judgment to Thomson Reuters on direct copyright infringement and rejected Ross's fair-use defense — the first definitive U.S. ruling on AI-training fair use. The 2023 jury trial verdict had been deadlocked; the 2025 ruling resolved liability.
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In effect Stronger protection
Louis v. SafeRent
D. Mass. · Effective 2024-11-20 · Louis v. SafeRent Solutions, LLC, No. 1:22-cv-10800 (D. Mass.)
SafeRent agreed in November 2024 to a $2.275M settlement and a five-year ban on using its 'SafeRent Score' for housing-voucher applicants, after a class action alleged its AI tenant-screening tool systematically denied housing to Black and Hispanic Section 8 voucher holders. The first major AI tenant-screening Fair Housing Act settlement.
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In effect Stronger protection
NetChoice v. Yost (Ohio)
S.D. Ohio · Effective 2024-04-30 · NetChoice, LLC v. Yost, No. 2:24-cv-00047 (S.D. Ohio Apr. 30, 2024)
Ohio's Social Media Parental Notification Act — requiring parental consent for minors' social-media use, including algorithmic feeds — was permanently enjoined as unconstitutional in April 2024.
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In effect Stronger protection
FTC Impersonation Rule (AI)
United States · Effective 2024-04-01 · 16 C.F.R. Part 461; 89 Fed. Reg. 15017
The FTC's Impersonation Rule lets the agency directly sue scammers who pretend to be a government agency or a real business — including those who use AI-cloned voices or generated images to do so. Civil penalties can reach $53,088 per violation. The FTC also issued a supplemental notice in February 2024 proposing to extend the rule to all individual impersonation.
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In effect Stronger protection
TCPA (AI voice calls)
United States · Effective 2024-02-08 · 47 U.S.C. § 227; FCC 24-17
Robocalls using AI-cloned or AI-generated voices are treated like other 'artificial voice' calls: callers need your prior express consent, must identify themselves, and must offer opt-outs for telemarketing. You can personally sue violators for $500 to $1,500 per illegal call.
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