On January 20, 2022, Atlantic County Superior Court Judge John C. Porto approved a $1.1 million settlement of a disabled woman’s August 19, 2016 lawsuit in which she claimed that two police officers–one from Brigantine and the other from Atlantic City–groomed her as their sexual victim when she was a child. The woman, referred to […]
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Court upholds firing of Gloucester County borough cop for repeatedly having on-duty sex with a female subordinate.
On April 4, 2022, Gloucester County Superior Court Judge Samuel J. Ragonese upheld Paulsboro Borough’s firing of a police officer who had on-duty sex with a female subordinate officer who was assigned to him for training five to ten times from August 2020 to November or December 2020. According to a Memorandum of Decision appended […]
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Closter quietly paid $150,000 to settle former probationary cop’s discrimination, wrongful termination lawsuit.
In November 2021, the Borough of Closter (Bergen County) paid $150,000 to a former probationary police office who claimed that he was subjected to a hostile work environment due to his ethnicity and fired in retaliation for his whistle blowing activities. In his October 2019 lawsuit, Nelson Sanchez, who described himself as “a dark-skinned Latino […]
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Salem County borough’s BA resigns, gets a full year’s salary as a payout. Borough officials not allowed to disclose “the alleged factual basis” of any claims that the BA alleged against them.
On May 13, 2022, the Business Administrator of a Salem County borough resigned from his position. Two weeks later, he and Borough officials quietly executed a “Confidential Settlement Agreement and Release” under which the former BA would not pursue his “allegations of improper actions initiated by members of the Borough Council” in exchange for a […]
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Cumberland County paid out $300,000 to settle jail inmate’s excessive force lawsuit.
On June 2, 2022, Cumberland County, New Jersey agreed to pay $300,000 to an inmate who said that he was beaten by jail guards despite being compliant with their attempt to handcuff him. Criminal charges that were brought against one correction officer involved in the alleged beating were resolved by the officer pleading guilty to […]