Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Stephan Kirksey

Youth Justice Commission · 1 record · 2025

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Major discipline · 2025^[1]

Suspended 8 days

Rank as reported: SCPO
Sustained charge(s): 1. , , or Failure to Perform Duties 12. HR: 19.7 E1 Violation of a rule, regulation, policy, procedure, order, statute or administrative decision ED:01.11 Suicide Prevention Secure Care Facilities
Separated while IA pending: No

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

SCPO Kirksey received an 8-day suspension from the Youth Justice Commission. The record found that Kirksey violated the agency's Suicide Prevention Secure Care Facilities policy by not properly conducting security checks on a resident who was on 15-minute close observation status. The report also substantiated that Kirksey misrepresented the Special Observation Status Monitoring Record by indicating that 15-minute checks were conducted on the resident at 9:15pm, 9:30pm, and 9:45pm.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

SCPO Kirksey violated the YJC Suicide Prevention Secure Care Facilities Policy by not properly conducting security checks on a resident who was on a 15-minute close observation status. Additionally, the report substantiated that SCPO Kirksey misrepresented the YJC Special Observation Status Monitoring Record by indicating that 15 minutes checks were conducted on the resident at 9:15pm, 9:30pm, and 9:45pm.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $80,748
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 4 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 783. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 211355, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩