Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Alyssa Kavanaugh

Jersey City Police Department · 2 records · 2021

About this data

Records on this page come from the Attorney General's major discipline releases: final, post-appeal discipline as reported by the employing agency. They are sustained charges, not allegations.
All figures are self-reported by agencies to the New Jersey Attorney General and shown as reported. Blank fields read "not reported," never "no."
Data is a yearly snapshot. Cases are not tracked across years, and major discipline appears only in the year it became final after all appeals.
In internal affairs data, allegations are not findings: many complaints end unfounded, exonerated, or not sustained.
Any compensation figure below comes from New Jersey Treasury pension data, a separate source from the discipline records. It is matched to this officer by name and employing agency at high confidence, not by certified identity.

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Major discipline · 2021^[1]

Suspended 60 days

Rank as reported: Officer
Sustained charge(s): Traffic Laws
Separated while IA pending: not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)

Police Officer Alyssa Kavanaugh was suspended for 60 days by the Jersey City Police Department in 2021 on a sustained charge involving traffic laws. The department reported that Kavanaugh was involved in a one-car motor vehicle accident while off duty in Linden and was charged with DWI, reckless driving, and careless driving. She pled guilty to reckless driving, and the other charges were dismissed.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Police Officer Alyssa Kavanaugh was involved in a one car MVA while off duty in Linden, NJ. P.O. A. Kavanaugh was charged with violations of DWI 39:4-50, Reckless Driving and Careless Driving and pled guilty to Reckless Driving. Other charges were dismissed.

Major discipline · 2021^[2]

Suspended 0 days

Rank as reported: Officer
Sustained charge(s): Intox. Off Duty
Separated while IA pending: not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)

Police Officer Alyssa Kavanaugh was disciplined by the Jersey City Police Department in 2021 on a sustained charge of intoxicants off duty. According to the department, Kavanaugh was involved in a one-car motor vehicle accident while off duty in Linden and was charged with DWI, reckless driving, and careless driving. She pled guilty to reckless driving, and the other charges were dismissed. The record lists a suspension without a reported number of days.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[3]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $81,000
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 5 years, 8 months

How to read this

The amount is as reported by the New Jersey Department of the Treasury in its YourMoney pension data, as of March 31, 2026. It is the pension-basis figure and may not include overtime, accrued leave, stipends, or other pay. The link between this officer and this pension record is a records-based match at high confidence (exact name and exact employing agency), not a certified identity. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2581. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2595. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[3]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 233215, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩