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Matthew Gorham

Q: What is Matthew Gorham's base salary on record?

Matthew Gorham's reported base salary is $78,160, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Matthew Gorham has 11 years, 2 months of reported service.

Ventnor Police Department · 1 record · 2024

Suspended 180 days2024 · as reported

Officer Matthew Gorham of the Ventnor Police Department was suspended for 180 days for a violation of standards of conduct. According to the record, Gorham was charged with and convicted of a violation of N.J.S.A. 39:4-50 while off-duty.

About this data

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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 records

Major discipline · 2024^[1]

Suspended 180 days

Rank as reported: Officer (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s): Standards of Conduct
Separated while IA pending: No

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Officer was suspended for a period of one hundred eighty (180 days) after being charged with and convicted of a violation of N.J.S.A. 39:4-50 while off-duty.

Similar records

AnalysisComputed by this site from shared agency, year, charge category, and sanction outcome. Not a legal or factual equivalence.

Michael DiBona · Allenhurst Police Department · 2024
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Michael Vega · Atlantic City Police Department · 2024
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Warren Young · Atlantic City Police Department · 2024
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Sustained charge(s): Standards of Conduct / Obedience to Laws and Regulations / Other Criminal Violation - Domestic Violence
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Suspended 30 days
Sustained charge(s): Performance of duty
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Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $78,160
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 11 years, 2 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.

Questions and answers

What is a summary of Matthew Gorham's major discipline record?

What is Matthew Gorham's major discipline record at Ventnor Police Department?

Matthew Gorham has one major discipline record at Ventnor Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

What is Matthew Gorham's base salary on record?

Matthew Gorham's reported base salary is $78,160, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Matthew Gorham has 11 years, 2 months of reported service.

How large is Ventnor Police Department, the department Matthew Gorham worked for?

Ventnor 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 Matthew Gorham individually.

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Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 860. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 227995, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
[3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8126. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩