The Department of Corrections suspended Correctional Police Sergeant Ernest Brooks for 15 days in 2024. Brooks filed for disability retirement on March 30, 2023, withdrew the application in January 2024, and had not returned to work. Human Resources sent several letters offering him the options to resign, retire, or return to work, and Brooks failed to respond. He signed a settlement agreement on April 30, 2024. The sustained charge was job abandonment.
N.J.A.C. 4A: 2-2.3(a) 12. . A2b. Abandonment of job as a result of absence from work as scheduled without permission for 5 consecutive days.
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Synopsis as reported by the agency
On March 30, 2023, Sergeant Brooks filed for disability retirement and subsequently withdrew his application in January 2024 and had not returned to work. Human Resources sent out several letters to Sergeant Brooks regarding his status and gave him the options to either resign, retire, or return to work. Sergeant Brooks failed to respond to these letters. Sergeant Brooks later signed a settlement agreement on this matter on April 30, 2024.
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Questions and answers
What is a summary of Ernest Brooks's major discipline record?
The Department of Corrections suspended Correctional Police Sergeant Ernest Brooks for 15 days in 2024. Brooks filed for disability retirement on March 30, 2023, withdrew the application in January 2024, and had not returned to work. Human Resources sent several letters offering him the options to resign, retire, or return to work, and Brooks failed to respond. He signed a settlement agreement on April 30, 2024. The sustained charge was job abandonment.
What is Ernest Brooks's major discipline record at Department Of Corrections?
Ernest Brooks has one major discipline record at Department Of Corrections in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
How large is Department Of Corrections, the department Ernest Brooks 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 Ernest Brooks individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1337. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]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/. ↩