Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Douglas Burkholder

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2020

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Major discipline · 2020^[1]

Terminated

Rank as reported: Senior Corrections Officer
Sustained charge(s): not applicable
Separated while IA pending: not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

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

Senior Corrections Officer Douglas Burkholder was terminated by the Department Of Corrections in 2020. According to the record, Burkholder posted on social media a post of a racist nature that violated the Policy Prohibiting Discrimination in the Workplace.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

The officerposted on social media a post that was of racist nature and violates Policy Prohibiting Discrimination in the Workplace

Compensation and pension

Retired member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Monthly pension allowance: $3,937.81
Monthly total (incl. cost-of-living): $3,937.81
Final salary basis: $93,061
Retired: September 2022
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 25 years, 2 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.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2989. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Retired Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 332044 (member 44302056), snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Retired Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩