Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Sean McNamara

Tenafly Police Department · 1 record · 2024

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 · 2024^[1]

Terminated

Rank as reported: Police Officer
Sustained charge(s): Incompetence, , Code of Ethics, General Duties/Truthful at all times, ,Obedience to Law and Rules, Reports & All other conduct Violation under NJSA 40A:14-128
Separated while IA pending: No

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

Officer McNamara lied, lacked candor, and provided conflicting information when answering internal affairs written interrogatories and during his internal affairs interview, according to the Tenafly Police Department. The record states that objective evidence established he provided knowingly false information regarding the facts surrounding his use of a family illness. McNamara was terminated by the department on March 19, 2024.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

PO McNamara lied/lacked candor/failed to be truthful/provided conflicting information in answering his internal affairs case written interrogatories and his internal affairs interview. Objective evidence established that you lied/lacked candor or provided knowingly false information regarding the facts and circumstances surrounding your use a family illness. PO McNamara was terminated by the Tenafly Police Department March 19, 2024.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $185,672
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 23 years, 8 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.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 889. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 227182, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩