(a) General Causes (12) HRB 84-17, as amended A1 - Unsatisfactory attendance, E1 - Violation 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)
Senior Correctional Police Officer Gavin Woolson called out sick and refused mandatory overtime at New Jersey State Prison on multiple dates between 4/29/25 and 6/18/25 without sufficient sick leave time to support the absences. The Department of Corrections deemed this chronic or excessive absenteeism. Woolson signed a Last Chance settlement agreement for a 15-day suspension on 9/8/2025.
Synopsis as reported by the agency
On 4/29/25, 4/30/25, 5/1/25, 5/5/25, 5/10/25, 5/17/25, 5/27/25, 5/28/25, 5/30/25, 5/31/25, 6/7/25, 6/13/25, 6/17/25, 6/18/25, New Jersey State Prison’s Senior Correctional Police Officer (SCPO) Gavin Woolson called out sick and refused to work mandatory overtime. SCPO Collins did not have sufficient sick leave time to support the absences. This was deemed . SCPO Woolson signed a Last Chance settlement agreement for a 15-day suspension on 9/8/2025.
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 771. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 213986, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩