PINE VALLEY - OCTOBER 1996: General view taken during a Pine Valley Golf Club photo shoot held in October 1996 at the Pine Valley Golf Club, in New Jersey. (David Cannon/Getty Images)PINE VALLEY, N.J. - Acting Attorney General Matthew J.
Platkin announced the filing of a civil rights complaint against the Pine Valley Golf Club. On Tuesday, Acting Attorney General Matthew J Platkin announced the Division on Civil Rights (DCR) complaint alleging "a pattern of gender-based discrimination by the historically male-dominated club." DCR is a state agency that aims to prevent, eliminate and find solutions for discrimination and bias-based harassment through the enforcement of New Jersey's Law Against Discrimination (LAD), Family Leave Act and Fair Chance in Housing Act.
The complaint alleges the club violated the Law Against Discrimination (LAD) by banning women from becoming members and restricting their ability to access club facilities and golf on the property.
The complaint also alleges the club used discriminatory practices to prevent women from owning homes on club land unless they co-own the house with a man and enforced employment policies that discriminated against employees on the basis of sex and gender. "Gender-based discrimination has no place in New Jersey, period.