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James Lawson

Department Of Corrections · 2 records · 2021

DemotedSuspended 90 daysmost recent record, 2021 · as reported

Lawson has 2 sustained major discipline records from Dept Of Corrections, all from 2021. The records include a demotion and a suspension.

Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2021[1]

Suspended 30 days

Plain-language summary

Written by this site from the cited record only.

Sergeant James Lawson was suspended for 30 days by the Department of Corrections in 2021. The record states Lawson violated the violence in the workplace policy. The agency did not provide the specific sustained charges for this record.

Rank as reported
Sergeant (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
not provided
Separated while IA pending
not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Violated violence in workplace policy.

Major discipline · 2021[2]

DemotedSuspended 90 days

Plain-language summary

Written by this site from the cited record only.

Sergeant James Lawson was demoted and suspended for 90 days by the Department Of Corrections in 2021, the record shows. The listed reason was an inappropriate social media post. Lawson was not terminated. The agency did not report the sustained charges or any other sanction.

Rank as reported
Sergeant (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
not provided
Separated while IA pending
not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Inappropriate social media post.

Similar records

AnalysisComputed by this site from shared agency, year, charge category, and sanction outcome. Not a legal or factual equivalence.

  • Anthony Meza · Department Of Corrections · 2021

    Terminated

    same agency · same year

  • Jerome Gunter · Department Of Corrections · 2021

    Terminated

    same agency · same year

  • Andraia Bridges · Department Of Corrections · 2021

    TerminatedSuspended 0 days

    same agency · same year

  • Arthur Bonitz · Department Of Corrections · 2021

    Terminated

    same agency · same year

  • Keesha Miller · Department Of Corrections · 2021

    Terminated

    same agency · same year

Other officers at Department Of Corrections

433 other named officers with reported major discipline records at this agency. Major discipline is final and post-appeal, as reported by the agency.

All 433 at the Department Of Corrections page

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney[3]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis)
$56,810
Pension fund
Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service
27 years, 5 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.

Questions and answers

What is a summary of James Lawson's major discipline record?

Lawson has 2 sustained major discipline records from Dept Of Corrections, all from 2021. The records include a demotion and a suspension.

What is James Lawson's major discipline record at Department Of Corrections?

James Lawson has 2 major discipline records at Department Of Corrections in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2021. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

What is James Lawson's base salary on record?

James Lawson's reported base salary is $56,810, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. James Lawson has 27 years, 5 months of reported service.

How large is Department Of Corrections, the department James Lawson 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 James Lawson individually.

Sources

  1. [1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2707. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  2. [2]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2732. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  3. [3]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 215440, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
  4. [4]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/. ↩