Major discipline · 2025[1]
Suspended 90 days- Rank as reported
- Senior Correctional Police Officer
- Sustained charge(s)
- (a) General Causes (6) a public employee (7) (8) , include motor vehicles (12) HRB 84-17, as amended B2- , loafing, idleness or willful failure to devote attention to tasks which could result in danger to persons or property. B8- Serious mistake due to carelessness which may result in danger and/or injury to persons or property. B9- Incompetence or . C11- an employee. D4- Improper or unauthorized contact with incarcerated person undue familiarity with incarcerated persons, parolees, their families, or friends. D11- , including motor vehicles used for unauthorized or unofficial purposes. E1- Violation of a rule, regulation, policy, procedure, order or administrative decision.
- Separated while IA pending
- No
Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)
On July 18, 2025, while supervising Bayside State Prison Highway Detail #136, Senior Correctional Police Officer Paul Ricci was approached by a former incarcerated person on Route 55 and did not report the interaction, the Department of Corrections reported. GPS records showed the detail's vehicle was at the East Point Lighthouse on six occasions, a location not listed in the logbook. Ricci told investigators he had taken the incarcerated persons there to show them an osprey and an eagle. He signed a settlement agreement for a 90-day suspension.
Synopsis as reported by the agency
On 7/18/25, while assigned as the supervising Senior Correctional Police Officer (SCPO) of Bayside State Prison (BSP) Highway Detail #136, SCPO Paul Ricci was approached by a former incarcerated person during detail on Route 55. SCPO Ricci did not report this interaction. The Special Investigation Division (SID) received the Global Positioning System (GPS) of the vehicle assigned to BSP Highway Detail #136. The GPS records showed that the vehicle was at 261 East Point Road, Maurice River (East Point Lighthouse) on six occasions and this location was not in the logbook and not part of the deployment records. During the SID investigation, SCPO Ricci stated that he transported the incarcerated persons to the East Point Lighthouse to show them the difference between an osprey and an eagle. SCPO Ricci signed a settlement agreement for a 90-day suspension on 9/29/25.