The Sparta Police Department suspended Patrolman Morris for 20 days in 2024 on a sustained charge of insubordination. The record states that Morris was directly ordered by a lieutenant to forward a specific NJTR-1 report to the Traffic Lieutenant without reviewing or modifying it, but he modified the report before forwarding it, in violation of departmental policy.
As a result of a sustained Internal Affairs investigation, The Sparta Police Department has suspended Officer Kurt Morris for 20 days for . Officer Morris was directly ordered by a Lieutenant to forward a specific NJTR-1 report to the Traffic Lieutenant without reviewing the report or modifying the report in any way. Despite the explicit directive, Officer Morris disregarded the order and modified the NJTR-1 report prior to forwarding it to the Traffic Lieutenant. This action violated departmental policy, leading to this disciplinary action.
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What is a summary of Kurt Morris's major discipline record?
The Sparta Police Department suspended Patrolman Morris for 20 days in 2024 on a sustained charge of insubordination. The record states that Morris was directly ordered by a lieutenant to forward a specific NJTR-1 report to the Traffic Lieutenant without reviewing or modifying it, but he modified the report before forwarding it, in violation of departmental policy.
What is Kurt Morris's major discipline record at Sparta Police Department?
Kurt Morris has one major discipline record at Sparta Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Kurt Morris's pension on record?
Kurt Morris's reported monthly pension allowance is $8,095.53, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Kurt Morris has 25 years, 2 months of reported service.
How large is Sparta Police Department, the department Kurt Morris worked for?
Sparta Police Department reported 37 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Kurt Morris individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1430. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Retired Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 376144 (member 44375615), snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Retired Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
[3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8596. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩