(a)(6) a Public Employee (a)(12) - Violation of Department Rules and Regulations
Separated while IA pending
No
Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)
Police Officer Ivan Guzman was suspended for 30 days by the Long Branch Police Department in 2025. On April 29, 2024, Guzman engaged in a pattern of harassing behavior toward a party protected by the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act, and he improperly accessed the department's police records system for reasons unrelated to his duties. The sustained charges were conduct unbecoming a public employee and other sufficient cause for violating department rules and regulations.
Synopsis as reported by the agency
On April 29, 2024 Officer Guzman knowingly and purposefully engaged in unreasonable conduct in the form of a pattern of harassing behavior toward a party protected by the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act. Officer Guzman further violated department rules and regulations by improperly accessing the department's police records system for reasons other than those related to his duties.
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 464. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 234765, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩