(a) General Causes (4) or lateness HRB 84-17, as amended A1b- Unsatisfactory attendance: .
Separated while IA pending
No
Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)
On 7/12/25 at Garden State Correctional Facility, Senior Correctional Police Officer Taquier Battle called out sick without sufficient leave time and was issued a 15 working-day suspension. Battle again called out sick on 8/3/25 without sufficient leave and received a removal charge. Both matters were settled with a Last Chance agreement under which Battle received a 15-day suspension on 11/28/25 from the Department of Corrections.
Synopsis as reported by the agency
On 7/12/25, Garden State Correctional Facility's Senior Correctional Police Officer (SCPO) Taquier Battle called out sick. He did not have sufficient leave time. He was issued a 15 working-day suspension. On 8/3/25, SCPO Battle called out sick. He did not have sufficient leave time. He was issued a removal charge for his absence. Both matters were settled with a Last Chance settlement agreement wherein SCPO Battle received a 15-day suspension on 11/28/25.
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 565. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 215221, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩