Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Kristin McDonald

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2025

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.
In internal affairs data, allegations are not findings: many complaints end unfounded, exonerated, or not sustained.
Any compensation figure below comes from New Jersey Treasury pension data, a separate source from the discipline records. It is matched to this officer by name and employing agency at high confidence, not by certified identity.

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Major discipline · 2025^[1]

Separated while IA pending

Rank as reported: Senior Correctional Police Officer
Sustained charge(s): (a) General Causes (12) HRB 84-17, as amended A1 - Unsatisfactory attendance, E1 - Violation 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 Kristin McDonald called out sick on numerous dates between 11/30/24 and 1/31/25 at New Jersey State Prison without sufficient sick time to cover them, the Dept Of Corrections reported. McDonald signed a settlement agreement on 4/16/2025 for retirement. The agency reported she separated while an internal affairs matter was pending.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On 11/30/24, 12/1/24, 12/4/24, 12/5/24, 12/12/24, 12/13/24, 1/25/25, 1/29/25, 1/30/25 and 1/31/25, New Jersey State Prison’s Senior Correctional Police Officer (SCPO) Kristin McDonald called out sick. SCPO McDonald did not have sufficient sick time to cover those dates. SCPO McDonald signed a settlement agreement on 4/16/2025 for retirement.

Compensation and pension

Retired member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Monthly pension allowance: $4,424.00
Monthly total (incl. cost-of-living): $4,424.00
Final salary basis: $106,176
Retired: July 2025
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 23 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.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 677. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Retired Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 371927 (member 44367522), snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Retired Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩