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Michael Kowalski

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2024

Terminated2024 · as reported

Senior Correctional Police Officer Michael Kowalski was terminated by the Dept Of Corrections. On March 2, 2023, Kowalski was arrested for shoplifting at the Vineland Home Depot after attempting to leave the store without paying for $307.54 worth of merchandise. Kowalski did not report the incident to the department in a timely manner and waited 7 days to report it. Sustained charges included conduct unbecoming an employee and shoplifting.

Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2024[1]

Terminated
Rank as reported
Senior Correctional Police Officer (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
  • N.J.A.C. 4A: 2-2.3(a) 6. an employee N.J.A.C. 4A: 2-2.3(a) 12. . C11: an employee. E1: Violations of a rule
  • regulation
  • policy
  • procedure
  • order or administrative decision. N.J.S.A. 2C: 20-11. Shoplifting.
Separated while IA pending
No

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On March 2, 2023, Officer Kowalski was arrested for shoplifting at the Vineland Home Depot and attempting to leave the store without paying for $307.54 worth of merchandise. Officer Kowalski did not report this incident to NJDOC in a timely manner, and waited 7 days to report the incident.

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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

Retired member · NJ Treasury YourMoney[2]

This site: records-based match

Monthly pension allowance
$0.00
Monthly total (incl. cost-of-living)
$0.00
Final salary basis
$88,352
Retired
September 2025
Pension fund
Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service
23 years

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 Michael Kowalski's major discipline record?

Senior Correctional Police Officer Michael Kowalski was terminated by the Dept Of Corrections. On March 2, 2023, Kowalski was arrested for shoplifting at the Vineland Home Depot after attempting to leave the store without paying for $307.54 worth of merchandise. Kowalski did not report the incident to the department in a timely manner and waited 7 days to report it. Sustained charges included conduct unbecoming an employee and shoplifting.

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

Michael Kowalski has one major discipline record at Department Of Corrections in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

Does Michael Kowalski's record show a termination?

Yes. At least one of Michael Kowalski's major discipline records shows a termination, reported for 2024.

What is Michael Kowalski's pension on record?

Michael Kowalski's reported monthly pension allowance is $0.00, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Michael Kowalski has 23 years of reported service.

How large is Department Of Corrections, the department Michael Kowalski 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 Kowalski individually.

Sources

  1. [1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1391. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  2. [2]YourMoney Retired Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 376660 (member 44376472), 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 8641. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩