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Sheriff's Officer Janaysia James was suspended for 25 days by the Middlesex County Sheriffs Office in 2024. James was assigned to a hospital detail from 2300 hours on July 16, 2024, to 0700 hours on July 17, 2024, and during the shift left her post three times for more than one hour and seventeen minutes total. Video showed James wearing a non-issued sweatshirt while on duty and not wearing her department-issued body armor or body worn camera. The sustained charges were not reported.
Officer James was assigned to a hospital detail at SPUH from 2300hrs on July 16, 2024, to 0700hrs on July 17, 2024. During the shift, Officer James left her post three different times totaling in excess of one hour and seventeen minutes. When Officer James leaves her post, she is seen on video exiting the ICU Unit on the 5th floor, leaving the 5th floor itself, exiting the hospital building and walking outside away from the building. Officer James is also observed on video wearing a non-issued sweatshirt while on duty and not wearing her department issued body armor or her body worn camera.
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Questions and answers
What is a summary of Janaysia James's major discipline record?
Sheriff's Officer Janaysia James was suspended for 25 days by the Middlesex County Sheriffs Office in 2024. James was assigned to a hospital detail from 2300 hours on July 16, 2024, to 0700 hours on July 17, 2024, and during the shift left her post three times for more than one hour and seventeen minutes total. Video showed James wearing a non-issued sweatshirt while on duty and not wearing her department-issued body armor or body worn camera. The sustained charges were not reported.
What is Janaysia James's major discipline record at Middlesex County Sheriff's Department?
Janaysia James has one major discipline record at Middlesex County Sheriff's Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
Does Janaysia James's record show a termination?
The major discipline records shown here do not report a termination for Janaysia James at Middlesex County Sheriff's Department.
What is Janaysia James's base salary on record?
Janaysia James's reported base salary is $76,700, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Janaysia James has 6 years, 8 months of reported service.
How does Middlesex County Sheriff's Department score on this site's report card?
This site's report card places Middlesex County Sheriff's Department in the highest fifth of peers of its peer group on reported internal affairs volume and discipline severity. The grade is analysis by this site, not an official rating, and it describes the department, not Janaysia James individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1184. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 247706, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩