Officer Tamayo-Acosta signed a last-chance agreement acknowledging the terms of her discipline. She had been out on sick leave for prenatal and postnatal care but failed to return to work from December 15, 2022, to August 7, 2023, and was absent again from August 1, 2023, to May 17, 2024. Newark PD deemed the absenteeism excessive and chronic, sustained a charge of chronic or excessive absenteeism, and imposed a 180-day suspension.
Officer Tamayo-Acosta was suspended for six months and signed a last-chance agreement acknowledging the terms. The officer had been out on sick leave for prenatal and postnatal care but failed to return to work from December 15, 2022, to August 7, 2023. Additionally, the officer was absent from August 1, 2023, to May 17, 2024. The officer’s absenteeism was deemed excessive and chronic.
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Police Transparency NJ, "Deleidi Tamayo-Acosta, Newark Police Department," last updated 2026-09-28, https://policetransparencynj.com/officers/deleidi-tamayo-acosta-newark-pd/. Source records: New Jersey Office of the Attorney General.
Questions and answers
What is a summary of Deleidi Tamayo-Acosta's major discipline record?
Officer Tamayo-Acosta signed a last-chance agreement acknowledging the terms of her discipline. She had been out on sick leave for prenatal and postnatal care but failed to return to work from December 15, 2022, to August 7, 2023, and was absent again from August 1, 2023, to May 17, 2024. Newark PD deemed the absenteeism excessive and chronic, sustained a charge of chronic or excessive absenteeism, and imposed a 180-day suspension.
What is Deleidi Tamayo-Acosta's major discipline record at Newark Police Department?
Deleidi Tamayo-Acosta has one major discipline record at Newark Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Deleidi Tamayo-Acosta's base salary on record?
Deleidi Tamayo-Acosta's reported base salary is $89,570, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Deleidi Tamayo-Acosta has 5 years, 3 months of reported service.
How large is Newark Police Department, the department Deleidi Tamayo-Acosta worked for?
Newark Police Department reported 1,119 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Deleidi Tamayo-Acosta individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1076. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 218896, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
[3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8643. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩