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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.

Background: The officers disciplined more than once.

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

No confident pension match found. This site links a pension record to a named officer only when the name and the exact employing agency both match a New Jersey Treasury record. Where that bar is not met, nothing is shown rather than a guess. See methodology for how these matches are made and what is withheld.

Cite this page

Police Transparency NJ, "James Lawson, Department Of Corrections," last updated 2026-09-28, https://policetransparencynj.com/officers/james-lawson-dept-of-corrections/. Source records: New Jersey Office of the Attorney General.

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.

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]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/. ↩