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Marla Saracino

Passaic County Prosecutor's Office · 1 record · 2025

Suspended 20 days2025 · as reported

Captain Saracino campaigned for and ran in the 2024 Republican primary for Passaic County Sheriff, then, after winning, campaigned and ran in the general election, all while employed by the Passaic County Prosecutors Office, the office reported. The conduct was sustained as violations of the Attorney General's and county prosecutor's codes of ethics governing political activity. Saracino was suspended for 20 days.

Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2025[1]

Suspended 20 days
Rank as reported
Captain (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
  • Violations of: The Attorney General's Code of Ethics of Prosecuotr's - Political Activity
  • Passaic County Prosecutor's Code of Ethics - Political Activity
  • Passaic County Prosecutor's Office Policy and Procedures - Polictical Activity.
Separated while IA pending
No

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Captain Saracino campaigned for and ran in the 2024 Republican primary for Passaic County Seriff. After winning, she campaigned and ran in the general election for Passaic County Seriff. This all occurred while still employed by the Passaic County Prosecutor's Office.

Background: What a suspension actually means in New Jersey police discipline.

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Compensation and pension

Retired member · NJ Treasury YourMoney[2]

This site: records-based match

Monthly pension allowance
$9,798.32
Monthly total (incl. cost-of-living)
$9,798.32
Final salary basis
$179,283
Retired
June 2025
Pension fund
Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service
25 years, 7 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 (matching name, exact employing agency, police-confirmed occupation, no competing candidate, and a scored match probability above the published floor; see the methodology), not a certified identity. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.

Cite this page

Police Transparency NJ, "Marla Saracino, Passaic County Prosecutor's Office," last updated 2026-09-28, https://policetransparencynj.com/officers/marla-saracino-passaic-co-prosecutors-office/. Source records: New Jersey Office of the Attorney General.

Questions and answers

What is a summary of Marla Saracino's major discipline record?

Captain Saracino campaigned for and ran in the 2024 Republican primary for Passaic County Sheriff, then, after winning, campaigned and ran in the general election, all while employed by the Passaic County Prosecutors Office, the office reported. The conduct was sustained as violations of the Attorney General's and county prosecutor's codes of ethics governing political activity. Saracino was suspended for 20 days.

What is Marla Saracino's major discipline record at Passaic County Prosecutor's Office?

Marla Saracino has one major discipline record at Passaic County Prosecutor's Office in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

What is Marla Saracino's pension on record?

Marla Saracino's reported monthly pension allowance is $9,798.32, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Marla Saracino has 25 years, 7 months of reported service.

How large is Passaic County Prosecutor's Office, the department Marla Saracino worked for?

Passaic County Prosecutor's Office reported 70 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Marla Saracino individually.

Sources

  1. [1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 504. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  2. [2]YourMoney Retired Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 366664 (member 44360045), snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Retired Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
  3. [3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8556. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩