New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement

What the Division is and what it does

The Division of Gaming Enforcement, usually shortened to DGE, sits inside the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. It describes itself as the investigative arm of the casino regulatory system, staffed by attorneys, investigators and accountants, with State Troopers and prosecutors from the Division of Criminal Justice assigned to support it. Its home page says it investigates and challenges applicants for casino and casino related licenses, reviews and audits casino hotel operations, prosecutes casino related crimes, and tests slot machines and internet gaming platform systems before they go into use.

The legal anchor is the Casino Control Act, which the Division says it is responsible for enforcing. Its internet gaming page cites N.J.S.A. 5:12-92a(3) and the rule N.J.A.C. 13:69O-1.2r, which defines a dispute as a complaint that cannot be resolved after all reasonable means have been exhausted by the casino permit holder. The act that brought internet gaming into the Casino Control Act is listed in search results as Public Law 2013, chapter 27. We did not read its text, because the legislature's host timed out for our client.

What it licenses

For online casino play, the Division issues internet gaming permits to the Atlantic City casinos that hold them. The permit is the credential that matters to a resident: the Division's own sites page says that any site not on its list is not approved to offer internet gaming in New Jersey. The Division also describes a Transactional Waiver, a petition that lets a company with a pending application for internet licensure do business with a casino licensee or platform provider in the meantime. The internet gaming pages we read speak of casino and poker sites together under the same permit and publish no separate sports wagering list.

What it publishes, and where

Four items are public on the Division's site.

1. A permit holder list as a PDF, headed with the Division's own "Last Update" date of September 22, 2026. The Division's text says it is updated as permits are issued.
2. An Internet Gaming Sites page, which groups approved domains under the permit holder that offers them. It shows a green check beside each domain and no update date.
3. Guidance documents on know your customer checks, responsible gaming, multi-factor authentication and advertising, linked from the internet gaming page.
4. News and updates, plus a page of the Director's actions and orders, reached from the Division's home page.

How to check a permit holder, step by step

1. Open the Internet Gaming Sites page on the Division's site and look for the exact domain. A near match is not a match.
2. Note the permit holder the Division groups that domain under.
3. Open the permit holder PDF and confirm that holder appears with a permit number in the form NJIGP 26-0xx. We counted nine permit numbers when we read it on November 11, 2026.
4. If the domain is on neither list, the Division's wording is plain that it is not approved.

Our own register of those holders is on the legal online casinos in New Jersey page, and the general method is described in how to check an online casino license.

Complaints and disputes

A resident with a problem starts with the casino. Under the Division's rule, a patron must first complain to the casino and receive its response before filing an Internet Gaming Dispute Form, attaching the original complaint and the casino's answer. The Division gives igaming@njdge.gov and (609) 984-0909 as contacts. The Casino Control Commission's FAQ states that the Division handles disputes with internet casino permit holders. For gambling problems, the Commission's FAQ gives 1-800-GAMBLER, and the Division runs a Self Exclusion Program with its own page.

Recent actions on its site

On October 20, 2026, Attorney General Jennifer Davenport and the Division announced adopted rules making data-driven responsible gaming mandatory. The release says each operator must appoint a responsible gaming lead, use play thresholds and behavioral triggers to flag patrons, run a due diligence review when a patron meets them, and apply up to three phases of intervention. It cites no statute and gives no effective date; the adopted rules are posted on the Division's Proposed Rules page. The same release says the state will consider further changes over reports of aggressive marketing to people showing signs of gambling disorder, and that New Jersey is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its case against Kalshi over prediction markets.

The Division's home page also shows monthly revenue releases, dated September 16, 2026 for August and October 19, 2026 for September.

Unlicensed and sweepstakes operators

The Division's sites page does not name sweepstakes casinos. Its only statement on the point is the general one: a site that is not on the approved list is not approved for internet gaming in the state. Industry trackers report that New Jersey enacted a ban on sweepstakes casinos in 2025; the law is treated on the sweepstakes page for the state.

What we read

On November 11, 2026 the nj.gov and njoag.gov robots.txt files allowed the pages and the PDF, and we read all of them with our normal client. The Division's older web address now shows a notice that the page has been replaced.