What is Sean May's major discipline record at Salem City Police Department?

Sean May has one major discipline record at Salem City Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2023. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

Does Sean May's record show a termination?

The major discipline records shown here do not report a termination for Sean May at Salem City Police Department.

What is Sean May's base salary on record?

Sean May's reported base salary is $92,180, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Sean May has 15 years, 2 months of reported service.

How large is Salem City Police Department, the department Sean May worked for?

Salem City Police Department reported 24 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Sean May individually.

How does Salem City Police Department score on this site's report card?

This site's report card places Salem City Police Department 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 Sean May individually.

Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Sean May

Salem City Police Department · 1 record · 2023

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

The Salem Police Department suspended Patrolman Sean May for 180 days in 2023 and noted loss of time. According to the record, on or about June 22, 2020, May deflated the tires on a former girlfriend's vehicle, kicked and damaged a landscaping light, unscrewed a porch lightbulb, and peered into her window while under the influence of alcohol. He was charged with invasion of privacy, criminal mischief, and harassment, and on or about June 5, 2023, pleaded guilty to a petty disorderly persons offense. The sustained charge was conduct unbecoming.

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.

Full caveats and definitions: methodology. To request a correction against the official record: corrections.

Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2023^[1]

Suspended 180 days

Rank as reported: Patrolman (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
Other sanction: Loss of time
Separated while IA pending: No

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On or abou t June 22, 2020, Patrolman Sean May deflated the tires on the vehicle of a former girlfriend, kicked a landscaping light at her residence and damaged it, unscrewed a lightbulb of a porch light, and peered into her window. At the time of the events, Patrolman May was under the influence of alcohol. On or about June 23, 2020, Patrolman May was charged on a criminal complaint ( 1712-S-2020-000365 with Invasion of Privacy (NJSA 2C:14-9A) a crime of the fourth degree, criminal mischief (NJSA 2C: 17-3A(1) disorderly persons offenseand harrassment (NJSA 2C:33-4C)a petty disorderly persons offense. On or about June 5, 2023, Patrolman May plead guilty to N.J.S.A. 2C:33-2(A) a petty disorderly persons offense and was sentenced to fines and court costs.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $92,180
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 15 years, 2 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.

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Questions and answers

What is a summary of Sean May's major discipline record?: The Salem Police Department suspended Patrolman Sean May for 180 days in 2023 and noted loss of time. According to the record, on or about June 22, 2020, May deflated the tires on a former girlfriend's vehicle, kicked and damaged a landscaping light, unscrewed a porch lightbulb, and peered into her window while under the influence of alcohol. He was charged with invasion of privacy, criminal mischief, and harassment, and on or about June 5, 2023, pleaded guilty to a petty disorderly persons offense. The sustained charge was conduct unbecoming.
What is Sean May's major discipline record at Salem City Police Department?: Sean May has one major discipline record at Salem City Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2023. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
Does Sean May's record show a termination?: The major discipline records shown here do not report a termination for Sean May at Salem City Police Department.
What is Sean May's base salary on record?: Sean May's reported base salary is $92,180, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Sean May has 15 years, 2 months of reported service.
How large is Salem City Police Department, the department Sean May worked for?: Salem City Police Department reported 24 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Sean May individually.
How does Salem City Police Department score on this site's report card?: This site's report card places Salem City Police Department 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 Sean May individually.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1868. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 216832, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
[3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8562. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩