Major discipline · 2022[1]
Suspended 60 days- Rank as reported
- Officer
- Sustained charge(s)
- a Public Employee Discrimination that affects equal employment opportunity including sexual harassment
- Separated while IA pending
- not applicable (collected 2023 and later)
Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)
Officer Carlos Medina was suspended for 60 days by the Hudson County Department of Corrections in 2022. The agency reported that on March 16, 2021, a corrections officer on duty received an obscene phone call that came from within the facility. Camera review showed Medina pick up the phone at the exact time the call was made, and Medina admitted to making a prank call. The sustained charges were insubordination, conduct unbecoming a public employee, and discrimination that affects equal employment opportunity including sexual harassment.
Synopsis as reported by the agency
On March 16, 2021, a Hudson County Corrections Officer received an obscene phone call described as heavy breathing and sexual sounds while on duty at the facility. The phone call came from within the Corrections facility. A review of the camera system revealed Officer Medina pick up the phone at the exact time the call was made. Medina admitted to making a prank call.