The RG Evolution Of New Jersey's Gambling Regulations Czar
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David Rebuck is the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement Director. He was a novice in the gaming industry when he took the job in 2010. His focus was on brick-and-mortar casinos in Atlantic City. He got started before the technological revolution that would revolutionize the industry.
Rebuck is the current governor of New Jersey. He is responsible gaming czar. Keith Whyte, the National Council on Problem Gambling's executive director, wrote a plan for implementing 25 key points of the new law. Rebuck's staff has implemented about 20 of them. Rebck got an 'A' for the overall compliance with the law, even though the plan was expanded to 30 points.
Rebuck is the Gambling regulations czar in New Jersey. He is an attorney and an administrator. Rebuck was disappointed when he met with responsible gambling groups. The bill signed by Gov. Chris Christie more than a decade ago required an annual DGE review of academic research associated with problem gambling. Rutgers University was chosen to do such research. Dr. Lia Nower, professor and director of the Center for Gabbling Studies at Rutgers, was named chairman of research committee for the National Council for Problem Gamblering in 2019.
Rebuck has been meeting with online gaming and mobile sports betting operators in New Jersey for the past year. He believes technology could be used as an early warning system regarding problem gambling. Rebuck and his staff laid out the standards for what would be put in place. They must be implemented by all 60 or so online casino and sportsbetting operators by January 1, 2023.
Regulators can learn from each other. New Jersey's first casino opened in 1978. Massachusetts and Ontario, Canada are creative in carving out helpful regulations. “I don't know of anybody who is an adversary, not an advocate, of trying to do better and to try things we have never done before”
