Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Shay Barnes

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2025

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Major discipline · 2025^[1]

Suspended 15 days

Rank as reported: Senior Correctional Police Officer
Sustained charge(s): (a) General Causes (12) HRB 84-17, as amended A1 - Unsatisfactory attendance, 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)

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.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

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.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $91,720
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 16 years

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 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/. ↩