Senior Correctional Police Officer Shay Barnes called out sick on numerous dates between December 2024 and August 2025 at New Jersey State Prison without sufficient sick leave. The Department of Corrections deemed this chronic or excessive absenteeism. Barnes signed a Last Chance settlement agreement for a 15-day suspension on 9/15/25.
On 12/15/24, 12/19/24, 12/28/24, 12/29/24, 12/30/24, 1/2/25, 4/16/25, 4/17/25, 4/18/25, 4/19/25, 5/13/25, 5/27/25, 6/17/25, and 8/12/25, New Jersey State Prison's Senior Correctional Police Officer (SCPO) Shay Barnes called out sick. SCPO Barnes did not have sufficient sick leave time to support the absences. This was deemed . SCPO Barnes signed a Last Chance settlement agreement for a 15-day suspension on 9/15/25.
Sustained charge(s): NJAC 4a:2-2.3(a) General Causes (1) Incompetency, inefficiency or failure to perform duties (6) Conduct unbecoming a public employee (7)…
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
Sustained charge(s): N.J.A.C. 4A:2-2.3(a) General Causes (12) Other Sufficient Cause HRB 84-17, as amended A1 - Unsatisfactory attendance, Chronic or excessive…
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
Sustained charge(s): N.J.A.C. 4A:2-2.3(a) General Causes (12) Other Sufficient Cause HRB 84-17, as amended A1 - Unsatisfactory attendance, Chronic or excessive…
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
Sustained charge(s): N.J.A.C. 4A:2-2.3(a) General Causes (12) Other Sufficient Cause HRB 84-17, as amended A1 - Unsatisfactory attendance, Chronic or excessive…
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
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.
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Police Transparency NJ, "Shay Barnes, Department Of Corrections," last updated 2026-09-28, https://policetransparencynj.com/officers/shay-barnes-dept-of-corrections/. Source records: New Jersey Office of the Attorney General.
Questions and answers
What is a summary of Shay Barnes's major discipline record?
Senior Correctional Police Officer Shay Barnes called out sick on numerous dates between December 2024 and August 2025 at New Jersey State Prison without sufficient sick leave. The Department of Corrections deemed this chronic or excessive absenteeism. Barnes signed a Last Chance settlement agreement for a 15-day suspension on 9/15/25.
What is Shay Barnes's major discipline record at Department Of Corrections?
Shay Barnes has one major discipline record at Department Of Corrections in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Shay Barnes's base salary on record?
Shay Barnes's reported base salary is $91,720, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Shay Barnes has 16 years of reported service.
How large is Department Of Corrections, the department Shay Barnes 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 Shay Barnes individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 564. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 213575, 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 8641. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩