Major discipline · 2025[1]
Suspended 6 days- Rank as reported
- County Correctional Police Officer
- Sustained charge(s)
- , or failure to perform duties; ; and numerous policy violations.
- Separated while IA pending
- No
Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)
County Correctional Police Officer Brandy Valasa received a 6 day suspension on 10/28/2025, according to the Monmouth County Department of Corrections. An investigation sustained that Valasa failed to search an inmate while escorting her from her housing unit for transport to court. The inmate was searched by receiving officers at the courthouse and found in possession of CDS, which the investigation confirmed she had obtained from her cell and carried throughout the escort and transport. Sustained charges included failure to perform duties and numerous policy violations.
Synopsis as reported by the agency
On 10/28/2025, CPO Valasa received a 6 day suspension after an investigation sustained that she failed to search an inmate when escorting her from her housing unit to be transported to court. The inmate was then transported to the courthouse where she was searched by receiving Officers at the courthouse and found to be in possession of CDS on her person. The investigation further confirmed the inmate obtained the CDS from her cell inside her housing unit and the CDS was on her person prior to leaving her housing unit that morning and throughout her escort and subsequent transport to the courthouse.