Major discipline · 2024[1]
Suspended 90 days- Rank as reported
- Senior Correctional Police Officer
- Sustained charge(s)
- N.J.A.C. 4A: 2-2.3(a) 6. an employee (a)(7) (a)(8) , including motor vehicles N.J.A.C. 4A: 2-2.3(a) 12. . B2: , loafing, idleness or willful failure to devote attention to tasks that could result in danger to persons or property. B8: Serious mistake due to carelessness which may result in danger and/or injury to persons or property. B9: Incompetence or inefficacy. C11: an employee. D4: improper or unauthorized contact with inmate - undue familiarity with inmates, parolees, their families or friends. D7: Violation of administrative procedures and/or regulations involving safety and security. D11: including motor vehicles used for unauthorized or unofficial purposes. E1: Violations of a rule, regulation, policy, procedure, order or administrative decision.
- Separated while IA pending
- No
Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)
The Department of Corrections suspended Senior Correctional Police Officer Duane Dare for 90 days in 2024. On August 15, 2024, the New Jersey Department of Transportation reported that two incarcerated persons on Dare's detail crew were relieving themselves in plain sight. An investigation found that Dare and the crew were in an unauthorized location and had traveled through various South Jersey shore towns they were not authorized to visit. The sustained charges included neglect of duty and misuse of public property. Dare signed a settlement agreement on October 17, 2024.
Synopsis as reported by the agency
On August 15, 2024 a complaint was received by the NJ Department of Transportation that two Incarcerated Persons on Officer Dare's detail crew were relieving themselves in plain sight. An investigation determined that the Officer Dare and the Incarcerated Persons were in an unauthorized location and the Incarcerated Persons were permitted to relieve themselves in the area. The investigation also revealed that Officer Dare's detail crew traveled through various South Jersey shore towns that they were not authorized to travel to. Officer Dare's actions resulted in a risk to the safety and security of the Incarcerated Persons assigned to the detail crew as well as members of the general public. Officer Dare signed a settlement agreement on this matter on October 17, 2024.