Suspended 45 daysmost recent record, 2023 · as reported
Casey has 2 sustained major discipline records from Franklin Twp PD, spanning 2022 to 2023. The records include a suspension. Sustained charges across the records include: Reporting for Duty, Sick Leave Policy; Departmental rules, regulations, policies and procedures.
Discipline timeline, 2022 to 2023
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2 records, 2022 to 2023
Major discipline records reported for Michael Casey, by year
The Franklin Township Police Department - Somerset County reported that between September 28, 2022, and June 15, 2023, Officer Michael Casey committed numerous infractions. These included failing to activate his body worn camera and mobile video recorder, leaving work early, and being insubordinate by not completing a report as instructed. Casey also failed to assign and label 65 body worn camera videos and left a marked patrol unit idling for approximately 4 hours. On August 29, 2023, he pleaded guilty to all charges and served a 45-calendar day unpaid suspension.
From September 28, 2022, through June 15, 2023, Officer Michael Casey committed a multitude of infractions. They include – responding to an extra duty assignment late, taking an excessive amount of time to respond to a call for service, failing to activate his body worn camera and mobile video recorder as required by policy, leaving work early, not submitting a summons in a timely manner causing a delay in court proceedings for accused driver, failing to complete a report in a timely manner, being insubordinate by not completing a report as instructed and in a timely manner, having repeated instances of misconduct that violate the public’s expectations of a police officer, failing to properly assign and label 65 BWC videos, failing to provide dispatch of race/sex of driver during a motor vehicle stop as well as the reason for the stop, failing to identify himself to a motor vehicle driver, failing to report for duty, failing to advise the department of his new residential address, failing to fully investigate a motor vehicle crash, improperly using lights and sirens, operating a department vehicle in a reckless manner, conducting a poor investigation of a motor vehicle crash, leaving a marked patrol unit idling in the parking lot for approximately 4 hours, failing to render aid during a medical emergency, failing to ensure a driver was able to operate his vehicle in a safe manner, failing to wear his ballistic panels after being ordered to do so by a supervisor, failing to maintain his duty weapon by not keeping the magazines at capacity with department issued ammunition, and failing to notify the department that he lost his badge and police identification. On August 29, 2023, Officer Michael Casey pleaded guilty to all the above charges and served a 45-calendar day unpaid suspension.
Officer Michael Casey was suspended for 8 days by the Franklin Township Police Department - Somerset County. The department reported that Casey failed to call out sick in a timely manner and was absent without leave from his shift.
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Questions and answers
What is a summary of Michael Casey's major discipline record?
Casey has 2 sustained major discipline records from Franklin Twp PD, spanning 2022 to 2023. The records include a suspension. Sustained charges across the records include: Reporting for Duty, Sick Leave Policy; Departmental rules, regulations, policies and procedures.
What is Michael Casey's major discipline record at Franklin Township Police Department?
Michael Casey has 2 major discipline records at Franklin Township Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2022, 2023. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
How large is Franklin Township Police Department, the department Michael Casey worked for?
Franklin Township Police Department reported 103 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 Casey individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1870. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2296. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[3]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1870. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. The timeline counts rows 1870, 2296. ↩
[4]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8574. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩