Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Kevin McNear

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2024

About this data

Records on this page come from the Attorney General's major discipline releases: final, post-appeal discipline as reported by the employing agency. They are sustained charges, not allegations.
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Data is a yearly snapshot. Cases are not tracked across years, and major discipline appears only in the year it became final after all appeals.
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Major discipline · 2024^[1]

Separated while IA pending

Rank as reported: Senior Correctional Police Officer
Sustained charge(s): N.J.A.C. 4A: 2-2.3(a) 3. . N.J.A.C. 4A: 2-2.3(a) 6. an employee N.J.A.C. 4A: 2-2.3(a) 12. . C11: an employee. E1: Violations of a rule, regulation, policy, procedure, order or administrative decision.
Separated while IA pending: Yes

Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)

Senior Correctional Police Officer Kevin McNear separated from the Department of Corrections while an internal affairs case was pending in 2024. On February 7, 2024, McNear was pulled over by Bridgeton police and arrested for driving while intoxicated. On October 21, 2024, he was found guilty of refusing to take a breathalyzer test, which the record notes was his third driving while intoxicated charge stemming from a refusal. McNear signed a settlement agreement on November 22, 2024.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On February 7, 2024 Officer McNear was pulled over by Bridgeton Police and subsequently arrested for driving while intoxicated and was subsequently charged with N.J.S.A. 39: 4-50.2. Consent to taking of samples of breath; record of test; independent test; prohibition of use of force; informing accused. On October 21, 2024, Officer McNear was found guilty in court for refusing to take a breathalyzer test. This is Officer McNear's third driving while intoxicated charge due to refusal of taking a breathalyzer. Officer McNear signed a settlement agreement on this matter on November 22, 2024.

Compensation and pension

Retired member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Monthly pension allowance: $5,724.74
Monthly total (incl. cost-of-living): $5,724.74
Final salary basis: $104,218
Retired: December 2024
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 25 years, 11 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.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1365. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Retired Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 361443 (member 44350925), snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Retired Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩