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Dakotah Witte

Department Of Corrections · 2 records · 2025

Suspended 10 daysmost recent record, 2025 · as reported

Witte has 2 sustained major discipline records from Dept Of Corrections, all from 2025. The records include a suspension. Sustained charges across the records include: N.J.A.C. 4A:2-2.3(a) General Causes (4) Attendance HRB 84-17, as amended A9 - Refusal or failure to work overtime without a reasonable excuse; N.J.A.C. 4A:2-2.3(a) General Causes (4) Attendance HRB 84-17, as amended A9 - Refusal or failure to work overtime without a reasonable excuse.

Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2025[1]

Suspended 10 days

Plain-language summary

Written by this site from the cited record only.

On 4/10/25, Senior Correctional Police Officer Dakotah Witte was mandated to work overtime at Garden State Youth Correctional Facility but did not complete his mandated shifts and failed to provide justification documentation within the allotted time frame. Witte was issued a Final Notice of Disciplinary Action for a 10-day suspension.

Rank as reported
Senior Correctional Police Officer (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
  • (a) General Causes (4) Attendance HRB 84-17
  • as amended A9 - Refusal or failure to work overtime without a reasonable excuse
Separated while IA pending
No

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On 4/10/25, Garden State Youth Correctional Facility's Senior Correctional Police Officer (SCPO) Dakotah Witte was mandated to work overtime. SCPO Witte did not complete his mandated shifts and failed to provide proper justification documentation within the allotted time frame. SCPO Witte was issued a Final Notice of Disciplinary Action for a 10-day suspension.

Major discipline · 2025[2]

Suspended 10 days

Plain-language summary

Written by this site from the cited record only.

Senior Correctional Police Officer Dakotah Witte was mandated to work overtime at Garden State Youth Correctional Facility on 3/21/25. Witte did not complete his mandated shifts and failed to provide justification documentation within the allotted time frame. He was issued a Final Notice of Disciplinary Action for a 10-day suspension.

Rank as reported
Senior Correctional Police Officer (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
  • (a) General Causes (4) Attendance HRB 84-17
  • as amended A9 - Refusal or failure to work overtime without a reasonable excuse
Separated while IA pending
No

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On 3/21/25, Garden State Youth Correctional Facility’s Senior Correctional Police Officer (SCPO) Dakotah Witte was mandated to work overtime. SCPO Witte did not complete his mandated shifts and failed to provide proper justification documentation within the allotted time frame. SCPO Witte was issued a Final Notice of Disciplinary Action for a 10 -day suspension.

Similar records

AnalysisComputed by this site from shared agency, year, charge category, and sanction outcome. Not a legal or factual equivalence.

  • Michael Anello · Department Of Corrections · 2025

    Suspended 15 days

    Sustained charge(s): N.J.A.C. 4A:2-2.3(a) General Causes (4) Attendance HRB 84-17, as amended A1 - Unsatisfactory attendance, Chronic or excessive absenteeism

    same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome

  • Dominick Aneses · Department Of Corrections · 2025

    Suspended 30 days

    Sustained charge(s): NJAC 4a:2-2.3(a) General Causes (1) Incompetency, inefficiency or failure to perform duties (6) Conduct unbecoming a public employee (7)…

    same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome

  • Malcolm Austin · Department Of Corrections · 2025

    Suspended 10 days

    Sustained charge(s): N.J.A.C. 4A:2-2.3(a) General Causes (12) Other Sufficient Cause HRB 84-17, as amended A1 - Unsatisfactory attendance, Chronic or excessive…

    same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome

  • Malcolm Austin · Department Of Corrections · 2025

    Suspended 15 days

    Sustained charge(s): N.J.A.C. 4A:2-2.3(a) General Causes (12) Other Sufficient Cause HRB 84-17, as amended A1 - Unsatisfactory attendance, Chronic or excessive…

    same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome

  • Malcolm Austin · Department Of Corrections · 2025

    Suspended 10 days

    Sustained charge(s): N.J.A.C. 4A:2-2.3(a) General Causes (12) Other Sufficient Cause HRB 84-17, as amended A1 - Unsatisfactory attendance, Chronic or excessive…

    same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome

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

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney[3]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis)
$76,858
Pension fund
Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service
10 years, 3 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.

Questions and answers

What is a summary of Dakotah Witte's major discipline record?

Witte has 2 sustained major discipline records from Dept Of Corrections, all from 2025. The records include a suspension. Sustained charges across the records include: N.J.A.C. 4A:2-2.3(a) General Causes (4) Attendance HRB 84-17, as amended A9 - Refusal or failure to work overtime without a reasonable excuse; N.J.A.C. 4A:2-2.3(a) General Causes (4) Attendance HRB 84-17, as amended A9 - Refusal or failure to work overtime without a reasonable excuse.

What is Dakotah Witte's major discipline record at Department Of Corrections?

Dakotah Witte has 2 major discipline records 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 Dakotah Witte's base salary on record?

Dakotah Witte's reported base salary is $76,858, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Dakotah Witte has 10 years, 3 months of reported service.

How large is Department Of Corrections, the department Dakotah Witte 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 Dakotah Witte individually.

Sources

  1. [1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 768. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  2. [2]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 769. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  3. [3]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 215658, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
  4. [4]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/. ↩