New Jersey requires online gambling sites to monitor player activity

New Jersey mandates player monitoring rules for online gambling operators

New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport announced Tuesday that the state has embedded data-driven responsible-gaming requirements into regulations governing online operators, compelling them to monitor customers against specific problem-gambling criteria and intervene when those criteria are met. Operators must now provide access to live call or chat support for higher-risk cases and, where necessary, restrict play.

The regulations currently apply to online operators only. Davenport framed the move as a direct response to the expansion of digital gambling access, citing the proliferation of advertising and the ease of placing wagers from any location.

Davenport used the announcement to press New Jersey's pending Supreme Court petition, which asks the court to review a Third Circuit ruling that found the Commodity Exchange Act bars states from regulating sports event contracts on prediction markets. That decision conflicts with a Ninth Circuit ruling that allowed Nevada to prohibit such contracts. New Jersey's filing is joined by 39 other states. Davenport argued that Kalshi's claim to offer legal sports betting in all 50 states while declining to follow state consumer-protection frameworks is precisely what makes Supreme Court intervention necessary.

The Third Circuit conflict with the Ninth remains unresolved, and the Supreme Court has not yet indicated whether it will take the case.

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