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Michael Anello

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2025

Suspended 15 days2025 · as reported

Senior Correctional Police Officer Michael Anello called out sick on 8/3/25 at Mid-State Correctional Facility without sufficient leave time and was placed in no-pay status. The Department of Corrections deemed this chronic and excessive absenteeism. Anello received a Final Notice of Disciplinary Action for a 15-day suspension.

Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2025[1]

Suspended 15 days
Rank as reported
Senior Correctional Police Officer (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
  • (a) General Causes (4) Attendance HRB 84-17
  • as amended A1 - Unsatisfactory attendance
Separated while IA pending
No

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On 8/3/25, Mid-State Correctional Facility's Senior Correctional Police Officer (SCPO) Michael Anello called out sick. SCPO Anello did not have sufficient leave time on that date and was therefore placed in “no pay" status. This is deemed excessive and chronic absenteeism. SCPO Anello was issued a Final Notice of Disciplinary Action for a 15-day suspension.

Background: Corrections agencies account for a large share of New Jersey's major police discipline.

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Other officers at Department Of Corrections

433 other named officers with reported major discipline records at this agency. Major discipline is final and post-appeal, as reported by the agency.

All 433 at the Department Of Corrections page

Compensation and pension

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Cite this page

Police Transparency NJ, "Michael Anello, Department Of Corrections," last updated 2026-09-28, https://policetransparencynj.com/officers/michael-anello-dept-of-corrections/. Source records: New Jersey Office of the Attorney General.

Questions and answers

What is a summary of Michael Anello's major discipline record?

Senior Correctional Police Officer Michael Anello called out sick on 8/3/25 at Mid-State Correctional Facility without sufficient leave time and was placed in no-pay status. The Department of Corrections deemed this chronic and excessive absenteeism. Anello received a Final Notice of Disciplinary Action for a 15-day suspension.

What is Michael Anello's major discipline record at Department Of Corrections?

Michael Anello has one major discipline record at Department Of Corrections in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

How large is Department Of Corrections, the department Michael Anello worked for?

Department Of Corrections reported 4,741 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Michael Anello individually.

Sources

  1. [1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 557. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  2. [2]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8641. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩