Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Bruce Gansert

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2025

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Major discipline · 2025^[1]

Separated while IA pending

Rank as reported: Senior Correctional Police Officer
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

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

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.

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.

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.

Sources

[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]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/. ↩