What is Patricia Cauley's major discipline record at Burlington County Corrections?

Patricia Cauley has one major discipline record at Burlington County Corrections in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

Does Patricia Cauley's record show a termination?

The major discipline records shown here do not report a termination for Patricia Cauley at Burlington County Corrections.

What is Patricia Cauley's base salary on record?

Patricia Cauley's reported base salary is $98,526, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Patricia Cauley has 22 years, 9 months of reported service.

How does Burlington County Corrections score on this site's report card?

This site's report card places Burlington County Corrections in the second-highest fifth of its peer group on reported internal affairs volume and discipline severity. The grade is analysis by this site, not an official rating, and it describes the department, not Patricia Cauley individually.

Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Patricia Cauley

Burlington County Corrections · 1 record · 2025

Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)

Captain Patricia Cauley was demoted and suspended for 60 days by the Burlington County Department of Corrections in 2025 on a sustained charge of discrimination that affects equal employment opportunity, including sexual harassment. An independent investigation determined that Cauley engaged in acts of sexual harassment, including discussing her sex life at work. The investigation also found that she acted in a way seen as controlling, retaliatory, demeaning, and threatening at times, and that she failed to maintain a culture of personal integrity, respect, civility, dignity, and professionalism.

About this data

Records on this page come from the Attorney General's major discipline releases: final, post-appeal discipline as reported by the employing agency. They are sustained charges, not allegations.
All figures are self-reported by agencies to the New Jersey Attorney General and shown as reported. Blank fields read "not reported," never "no."
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 · 2025^[1]

DemotedSuspended 60 days

Rank as reported: Captain (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s): Discrimination that affects equal employment opportunity (including sexual harrassment
Separated while IA pending: No

Synopsis as reported by the agency

An independent investigation determined that Captain Cauley engaged in acts of sexual harrassment including discussing her sex life at work. Furthermore she acted in a way that was seen as controlling, retailitary, demeaning, and threatening at times. Captain Cauley also failed to exhibit and maintain a culture of personal integrity, respect, civilty, dignity, and professionalism at all times

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $98,526
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 22 years, 9 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.

Similar records

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

Terrance Benson · Burlington County Corrections · 2025
Suspended 15 days
Sustained charge(s): Incompetency, Ineffiency, or failure to perform duties
same agency · same year
Jonathan Carroll · Burlington County Corrections · 2025
Suspended 15 days
Sustained charge(s): Incompetency, Ineffiency, or failure to perform duties
same agency · same year
Ryan McHugh · Burlington County Corrections · 2025
Suspended 30 days
Sustained charge(s): Discrimination that affects equal employment opportunity (including sexual harrassment
same agency · same year
Nicholas Morton · Burlington County Corrections · 2025
Terminated
Sustained charge(s): Incompetency, Ineffiency, or failure to perform duties
same agency · same year
Robert Grabowski · Bloomingdale Borough Police Department · 2025
DemotedSuspended 88 days
Sustained charge(s): BPD Rules and regulations set 2.1.3 General duties of an officer
same year · similar sanction outcome

Questions and answers

What is a summary of Patricia Cauley's major discipline record?: Captain Patricia Cauley was demoted and suspended for 60 days by the Burlington County Department of Corrections in 2025 on a sustained charge of discrimination that affects equal employment opportunity, including sexual harassment. An independent investigation determined that Cauley engaged in acts of sexual harassment, including discussing her sex life at work. The investigation also found that she acted in a way seen as controlling, retaliatory, demeaning, and threatening at times, and that she failed to maintain a culture of personal integrity, respect, civility, dignity, and professionalism.
What is Patricia Cauley's major discipline record at Burlington County Corrections?: Patricia Cauley has one major discipline record at Burlington County Corrections in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
Does Patricia Cauley's record show a termination?: The major discipline records shown here do not report a termination for Patricia Cauley at Burlington County Corrections.
What is Patricia Cauley's base salary on record?: Patricia Cauley's reported base salary is $98,526, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Patricia Cauley has 22 years, 9 months of reported service.
How does Burlington County Corrections score on this site's report card?: This site's report card places Burlington County Corrections in the second-highest fifth of its peer group on reported internal affairs volume and discipline severity. The grade is analysis by this site, not an official rating, and it describes the department, not Patricia Cauley individually.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 89. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 244123, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩