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Bruce Gansert

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2025

Separated while IA pending2025 · as reported

Senior Correctional Police Officer Bruce Gansert of Bayside State Prison filed for retirement effective 2/1/25, but on 11/2/24 he opened a 'sick number' and stopped reporting to work while inaccurately advising operations that his retirement was effective 11/1/24. After Department of Corrections Human Resources advised him that he had no approved leave and needed to return to work or submit FMLA documentation, Gansert failed to respond to repeated correspondence. He was issued a Final Notice of Disciplinary Action for a resignation not in good standing, effective 2/18/25.

Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2025[1]

Separated while IA pending
Rank as reported
Senior Correctional Police Officer (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
  • (a) General Causes (12) N.J.A.C. 4A:2-6.2(B) Resignation not in Good Standing - Any employee who is absent from duty for five or more consecutive business days without the approval of his or her supervisor shall be considered to have abandoned her or her position and shall be recorded as a resignation not in good standing. Approval of the absence should not be unreasonably denied. HRB 84-17
  • as amended A2b - Abandonment of job as a result of absence from work as scheduled without permission for five consecutive work days
Separated while IA pending
Yes

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Bayside State Prison’s Senior Correctional Police Officer (SCPO) Bruce Gansert filed for retirement effective 2/1/25. On 11/2/24, SCPO Gansert opened a “sick number” and stopped reporting to work. SCPO Gansert inaccurately advised operations that his retirement was effective 11/1/24. SCPO Gansert was advised by New Jersey Department of Corrections (NJDOC) Human Resources (HR) that he did not have an approved leave and would need to either return to work or submit FMLA documentation to cover his absences. SCPO Gansert failed to respond to repeated correspondence from NJDOC HR. SCPO Gansett was issued a Final Notice of Disciplinary Action for a resignation not in good standing, effective 2/18/25.

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Other officers at Department Of Corrections

433 other named officers with reported major discipline records at this agency. Major discipline is final and post-appeal, as reported by the agency.

All 433 at the Department Of Corrections page

Compensation and pension

Retired member · NJ Treasury YourMoney[2]

This site: records-based match

Monthly pension allowance
$4,345.63
Monthly total (incl. cost-of-living)
$4,345.63
Final salary basis
$104,295
Retired
February 2025
Pension fund
Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service
20 years, 1 month

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.

Questions and answers

What is a summary of Bruce Gansert's major discipline record?

Senior Correctional Police Officer Bruce Gansert of Bayside State Prison filed for retirement effective 2/1/25, but on 11/2/24 he opened a 'sick number' and stopped reporting to work while inaccurately advising operations that his retirement was effective 11/1/24. After Department of Corrections Human Resources advised him that he had no approved leave and needed to return to work or submit FMLA documentation, Gansert failed to respond to repeated correspondence. He was issued a Final Notice of Disciplinary Action for a resignation not in good standing, effective 2/18/25.

What is Bruce Gansert's major discipline record at Department Of Corrections?

Bruce Gansert has one major discipline record at Department Of Corrections in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

What is Bruce Gansert's pension on record?

Bruce Gansert's reported monthly pension allowance is $4,345.63, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Bruce Gansert has 20 years, 1 month of reported service.

How large is Department Of Corrections, the department Bruce Gansert worked for?

Department Of Corrections reported 4,741 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Bruce Gansert individually.

Sources

  1. [1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 622. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  2. [2]YourMoney Retired Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 365653 (member 44358013), snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Retired Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
  3. [3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8641. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩