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Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office

Reported as: Atlantic County Prosecutors OfficeCounty prosecutor

Jurisdiction context

Civil service status not verified

We could not match this agency to the NJCSC roster with confidence. Whether the Title 4A framework applies here is not asserted either way.

See the context on non-civil-service departments.

Reflects the NJCSC Appendix A roster as of 2026-07-04. Context only, not legal advice.

In brief

The Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office is a county prosecutor agency in Atlantic County. It named 2 officers in internal affairs cases in 2025 and reported 2 investigations, a rate of 100 per 100 officers, level with the county median of 100 and under the 107.5 median for prosecutor agencies. Reading a rate against a median cuts both ways, since a larger caseload can mean more misconduct or a stronger habit of documenting complaints. Both of the 2 investigations detailed for 2025 reported sustained complaints. The only allegation category listed was Other Departmental Rule Violation.

Ten major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2020, 2022 and 2024, including 6 terminations. The office received a C on the report card, at the 48th percentile among 21 peers in the group of all prosecutor agencies, a medium-confidence grade.

Written by this site strictly from the figures on this page; every number is cited below.

Officers named in IA cases, 2025

2[1]

Distinct officers in that year's IA investigations, not total staffing

IA investigations, 2025

2[1]

Incidents, 2025

2[1]

Major discipline records

10

All years, 2020-2025

Staffing

As reported by the department to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) census, full-time personnel as of October 31 each year. This is a different measurement from the "officers named in IA cases" figure above; see the methodology.

Sworn officers, 2025

73[6]

50 years reported

73 sworn officers in 2025, up from 30 in 1976 (+143%).
Yearsworn officers
197630
197745
197837
197949
198038
198139
198241
198341
198464
198569
198650
198759
198859
198963
199063
199163
199262
199363
199468
199565
199670
199769
199868
199971
200071
200176
200276
200373
200472
200573
200675
200772
200876
200978
201077
201176
201278
201378
201474
201577
201674
201777
201873
201972
202072
202174
202273
202372
202473
202573

Civilian employees, 2025

108[7]

1.48 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

20[8]

27.4% of sworn officers

AnalysisComputed by this site from LEE reported totals; not an official statistic.

How Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office's sworn staffing compares with its real peer group (same agency type, similar size band), not an assumed bell curve.

Peer group: County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies (n=20)

Sworn officers: County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies
RangeAgencies
0–509
50–1008
100–1503

Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office: 73 sworn officers: 69th percentile among County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies (n=20).

The match between this FBI record and this department is this site's inference, not a certified mapping. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.

Military surplus equipment (1033 program)

No 1033 transfers recorded. No surplus-equipment transfers appear for this agency under a high-confidence name match in the Defense Logistics Agency's file as of 2026-06-30. That can mean the agency received nothing through the program, or that a recipient name in the federal file did not confidently match this department. See the methodology for how the match is made, or the statewide 1033 overview for how the program spreads across New Jersey.

Internal affairs investigations by year

counts

Internal affairs investigations reported by Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Categorycounts
20215
202224
20237
202412
20252

Incidents

2 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
20215
202221
20236
202410
20252

Officers on IA rows

2 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2022not reported
2023not reported
202412
20252
Analysis

Computed by this site from the two figures the agency reports each year. Not a misconduct rate: it describes how an agency resolved what it investigated.

share of total · 5 reported years

Share of internal affairs investigations sustained by Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
202258.333
202342.857
202450
2025100

Statewide, 19.5 percent of investigations reported a sustained complaint in 2025. How dispositions break down statewide.

Complaint mix, 2025

Most serious allegation per investigation, as categorized by the reporting agency. Officer-level rows list 2 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office, 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation2
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office, 2025
Sustained2

Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025

AnalysisRanked and folded by this site. The counts inside each panel are as reported.

Other Departmental Rule Violation

26 of 50

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
20214
20229
20234
20247
20252

Preventable MV Accident

12 of 50

Preventable MV Accident allegations reported by Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20227
20232
20243
20250

Demeanor

3 of 50

Demeanor allegations reported by Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
20211
20222
20230
20240
20250

Improper Entry

3 of 50

Improper Entry allegations reported by Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20223
20230
20240
20250

Other (5 categories)

6 of 50

Other (5 categories) allegations reported by Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20223
20231
20242
20250
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office100.0
County median, county prosecutor (1)100.0
NJ median, county prosecutor (21)107.5

Investigations per 100 officers named in that year's IA investigations (the Attorney General's own "Number of Officers" field, a distinct-officer count drawn from the IA case data itself, not a department headcount). A higher number is ambiguous on its own: it can reflect more misconduct, or a stronger internal reporting culture. Medians are computed within the same agency type only.

AnalysisA second, independent rate using FBI-reported staffing instead.

2 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 73 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[20] = 2.7 per 100 FBI-reported sworn officers. This is a genuinely different denominator from the rate above, not a correction of it; the two should not be added or averaged together. See the methodology for why these two officer counts diverge.

Report card

Grade C: Middle fifth of peers

On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology

Combined standing
48th percentile of 21 peers
Confidence
Medium confidence
  • small agency; per-officer rates swing widely on a handful of cases

Where this agency falls among its peers

The actual spread of discipline severity across Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office's real peer group, not an assumed bell curve. If the group is skewed, it is shown skewed.

Peer group: County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies (n=21)

Discipline severity: County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies
RangeAgencies
0–10016
100–2002
200–3002
300–4001

Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office: 329.787 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 98th percentile among County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies (n=21).

How the grade is built

Three components, each a percentile within the peer group. The combined standing is their weighted mean, re-ranked among peers; the grade is the fifth of the peer group it lands in.

IA volumeweight 40%

12th percentileof 21 peers

102.9 investigations per 100 officers (multi-year mean)

Internal affairs investigations per 100 reported officers, averaged over the years where the agency reported both figures.

Discipline severityweight 40%

98th percentileof 21 peers

329.8 severity-weighted discipline per 100 officers, 2020-2025

Major discipline records weighted by sanction (termination 4, demotion 3, suspension 2, other 1) per 100 officers.

Allegation severityweight 20%

7th percentileof 21 peers

1.39 mean severity tier (1 low - 4 critical)

Mean severity tier of IA allegations across 2021-2025, using the published tier map; unknown values excluded.

What this grade can and can't tell you

  • The underlying data is self-reported by agencies, one yearly snapshot at a time.
  • Allegations are not findings; many complaints end unfounded, exonerated, or not sustained.
  • There is no arrest or call-volume denominator in this data, so nothing here is a per-capita misconduct rate. A genuinely independent staffing-based rate, sourced from the FBI rather than this grade's own data, appears above when available. It is a different measurement, not a more accurate version of the grade.
  • A higher internal affairs volume is ambiguous: it can indicate more misconduct, or a more robust oversight and reporting culture. The grade weighs it anyway, because volume is what the record offers; that choice is published, not hidden.
  • The grade is one lens. The records it reads are on this page above.

Where this agency ranks

AnalysisRankings compare agencies of the same type only, on figures as reported. A high rank is reported volume, not a verdict.[21] How each metric is defined.
This agency's rank on each metric, among agencies of the same type
MetricValueRank
IA per 100 investigated officers2025100.012th of 21 county prosecutor
IA investigations2025218th of 21 county prosecutor
IA incidents2025218th of 21 county prosecutor
Major discipline2020-2025101st of 16 county prosecutor
Terminations2020-202561st of 4 county prosecutor
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present563rd of 15 county prosecutor

Major discipline records

0 major discipline records in 2025, down from 2 in 2020 (-100%).
Yearmajor discipline records
20202
20210
20226
20230
20242
20250

0 major discipline records in 2025, down from 2 in 2020 (-100%).

Major discipline records reported by Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office, 2020-2025
YearOfficerRankSanction as reportedSrc
2024Denise MontgomeryDetectiveSuspended 120 days[22]
2024Bryan CaseyDetectiveSuspended 45 days[23]
2022Essence HenryDetectiveTerminated[24]
2022Essence HenryDetectiveTerminated[25]
2022Essence HenryDetectiveTerminated[26]
2022Essence HenryDetectiveTerminated[27]
2022Essence HenryDetectiveTerminated[28]
2022Essence HenryDetectiveTerminated[29]
2020Lawrence AcheyDetectiveOther sanction[30]
2020Jason DornDetectiveSuspended 25 days[31]

Every name links to the officer's record page with the agency's full synopsis and citation.

Fatal encounters recorded involving this agency

From the independent Fatal Encounters dataset, 2000-2021

In brief (written by this site from the records below)

One record in the Fatal Encounters dataset names Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office, in 2010. The dataset records the force on it, in its own as-recorded terms, as Gunshot. The dataset comes from Fatal Encounters, an independent crowdsourced journalism project that logged deaths occurring during police encounters of any kind, including vehicle pursuits, overdoses, and medical emergencies. A record means a death occurred during an encounter with the agency named in the as-reported agency field; it is not a finding of fault. Collection ended in December 2021, so the dataset is frozen at that point and later years are simply not covered.

Fatal Encounters is an independent, crowdsourced dataset that documented deaths during police encounters nationwide from 2000 until its collection ended in December 2021.[2] It records all deaths that occurred during a police encounter of any kind: vehicle pursuits, suicides in police presence, and medical emergencies are included alongside uses of force. A record appears here because Atlantic County Prosecutor's Officeis named in the record's as-reported agency field. A listing is not a misconduct finding, and it is not connected to the Attorney General discipline records above. See the methodology. Each record links to its own page with the full as-reported details.

  • Donald Hoffman

    April 26, 2010 · Hammonton · Highest level of force as recorded: Gunshot

Public records requests

Records requests about this department filed through OPRAmachine, an independent site that files Open Public Records Act requests in public and publishes the responses.[3] This is a third-party, user-generated source, separate in origin from the Attorney General records elsewhere on this page.

Current as of 12 July 2026. These figures are a point-in-time snapshot and do not update: requests filed to OPRAmachine after that date do not appear here. For live activity, see this body on OPRAmachine.

Police-related requests

56[3]

Every request filed to this department

Most recent request

October 2025[3]

First recorded November 2018

Awaiting a response

16[3]

Requests with no response recorded yet

What happened to those requests

Statuses as recorded on OPRAmachine. They are set by the person who filed the request when they classify what came back, not by the agency and not by any court. They describe the fate of a records request and nothing else.

Recorded outcomes of records requests to Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office (requests)
Awaiting agency response15
Requester reported success12
Request refused9
Under internal review9
Requester reported partial success5
Agency said records not held4
Awaiting clarification1
Withdrawn by requester1

Recent requests

The 12 most recent requests to Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office, by date and recorded status. Each was written by a member of the public. A request is a question somebody asked. It is not a finding, not an allegation this site makes, and not evidence that anything happened.

  1. 2025-10-01Awaiting agency response
  2. 2025-09-14Requester reported success
  3. 2025-09-10Awaiting agency response
  4. 2025-07-24Requester reported success
  5. 2025-02-23Awaiting clarification
  6. 2024-09-14Agency said records not held
  7. 2024-05-13Requester reported success
  8. 2024-04-11Awaiting agency response
  9. 2024-04-10Request refused
  10. 2024-03-13Requester reported partial success
  11. 2024-02-20Requester reported success
  12. 2024-02-20Request refused
Show what each request asked for, as the requester wrote it

These titles are quoted from OPRAmachine exactly as the requester typed them. They are the requester's words, not this site's, and some describe what the requester believed or suspected. Nothing here has been established as fact.

File your own records request

Anyone can request records from this department under the Open Public Records Act. This link opens a request on OPRAmachine, pre-filled with a neutral starting point you can edit or replace before you send it. The request, and any response, will be published there.

File an OPRA request about this department

See every request filed to Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office on OPRAmachine.

What this section can and can't tell you

  • A request is not a finding. Every entry records what a member of the public asked for. None of it establishes that an agency did anything, and none of it is an allegation this site is making.
  • Statuses come from the requester, not the agency. On OPRAmachine the person who filed the request classifies the response they got, so “successful” means they said they got what they asked for. It is not the agency's word and not an adjudication.
  • Request volume is not a measure of misconduct. A long list usually reflects public interest, local journalism, or one determined requester. A short list usually means few people have asked.
  • This covers OPRAmachine only. Most OPRA requests in New Jersey are filed directly with agencies and never appear here, so this is a floor, not a total.
  • It is frozen at 12 July 2026. The figures come from a snapshot of OPRAmachine taken on that date and nothing refreshes them, so anything filed since is missing. Treat every number here as a lower bound that is only getting further out of date.

The match between this OPRAmachine body and this department is this site's inference, not a certified mapping. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.

Questions and answers

What is a summary of Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office's internal affairs and discipline record?

The Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office is a county prosecutor agency in Atlantic County. It named 2 officers in internal affairs cases in 2025 and reported 2 investigations, a rate of 100 per 100 officers, level with the county median of 100 and under the 107.5 median for prosecutor agencies. Reading a rate against a median cuts both ways, since a larger caseload can mean more misconduct or a stronger habit of documenting complaints. Both of the 2 investigations detailed for 2025 reported sustained complaints. The only allegation category listed was Other Departmental Rule Violation. Ten major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2020, 2022 and 2024, including 6 terminations. The office received a C on the report card, at the 48th percentile among 21 peers in the group of all prosecutor agencies, a medium-confidence grade.

How many internal affairs investigations did Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office report in 2025?

Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office reported 2 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 2 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office have?

Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office has 10 major discipline records in the Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, of which 6 were terminations. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

How many officers does Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office have?

Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office reported 73 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 27.4% of them female. This is a different measurement from the "officers named in IA cases" figure elsewhere on this page, which counts distinct officers in that year's internal affairs investigations, not total staffing.

How many deaths during police encounters are recorded for Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office?

The independent Fatal Encounters dataset contains 1 record naming Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office, from 2010 through 2010. Fatal Encounters is a crowdsourced journalism project, not a government source, and it documented deaths that occurred during police encounters of any kind. Each record links to a page showing it exactly as the project recorded it.

Sources

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  21. [21]Ranks computed by this site over the Attorney General internal affairs agency totals and major discipline releases, within agency type. Each ranking page lists every agency and its source rows.
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