Corrections and removal requests

If this site misstates the official record

Use the form below. Every fact on a page carries a numbered source note naming the file, sheet, and row it came from; referencing that note speeds the check. Claims are verified against the cited source file, and pages that misstate it are corrected. A note recording the correction is added to the page.

If the official record itself is wrong

This site republishes what agencies reported to the New Jersey Attorney General. It cannot change the underlying government record. If you believe the reported record is itself in error, the correction has to happen at the source: the reporting agency or the Attorney General's office. When an updated official release changes a record, this site regenerates from the new release and the page follows automatically.

About named officers

Officers are named on this site only where they are named in the Attorney General's major discipline releases, which cover final, post-appeal discipline. Values are shown exactly as reported, alongside the AG's own caveats (see methodology). Requests to remove accurately reported public records are generally declined; requests tied to a demonstrated error in the official record are handled as corrections, as above.

About salary and pension figures

Where an officer page shows a salary or pension figure, the amount is as reported by New Jersey Treasury, but the link between the officer and that pension record is an inference: a records-based match on name and employing agency, not a certified identity. If a compensation figure is attached to the wrong person, tell us and it is removed. Unlike a disputed discipline record, a mismatched pension figure is taken down on request and kept suppressed, because the association is ours, not the official record's. See how these matches are made.

About FBI staffing figures

Where a department page shows a staffing figure, the count itself is as reported to the FBI, but the link between an FBI record and this site's department page is also an inference: a match between the FBI's own agency identifier and this site's canonical department, not a certified one-to-one mapping. If a staffing figure is attached to the wrong department, tell us and it is removed. As with pension figures, a mismatched staffing figure is taken down on request and kept suppressed, because the match is ours, not the official record's. See how these matches are made.

About fatal encounter records

Fatal encounter pages are built from the Fatal Encounters dataset, an independent journalism project, not a government record. Two kinds of problems have two different fixes. If a record is attributed to the wrong department, that link is this site's inference, and it is fixed here: tell us and a mismatched attribution is removed and kept suppressed, the same way a mismatched pension or staffing figure is. If the underlying record itself contains a factual error, the source dataset stopped collecting in December 2021 and may not be correctable at the source; this site will annotate the page with the disputed point and the evidence provided, and will correct anything that is this site's own error outright. See how these records are handled.

For family members of the deceased: these pages describe the hardest day of your family's life, and we treat requests about them accordingly. A family member can request correction of a record page, or its removal, by using the form above or writing to [email protected]. State your relationship to the person named; no documentation of grief is required. This site errs on the side of sensitivity in these requests, and an honored removal is kept permanent.

About military equipment (1033 program) data

Equipment pages are built from the Defense Logistics Agency's federal transfer records. If transfers are attributed to the wrong department, that match is this site's inference from the file's free-text recipient names: tell us and it is corrected, and a disputed match is suppressed while it is checked. If an item is classed tactical that you believe is mundane, or the reverse, the classification is this site's published editorial judgment; challenges are reviewed against the written rationale for that supply class and the classification table is updated when a challenge holds. Questions about dollar figures usually trace to what the source reports: values are the original cost to the Department of Defense, not current or market value, and line totals are this site's multiplication of quantity by that original per-unit cost. See how this data is processed.