Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Tasgeana Richardson

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2025

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Major discipline · 2025^[1]

Suspended 15 days

Rank as reported: Correctional Police Officer
Sustained charge(s): (a) General Causes (1) , or failure to perform duties (6) a public employee (7) (12) HRB 84-17, as amended A10 - Leaving assigned work area without permission but not creating a danger to persons or property B2 - , loafing, idleness or willful failure to devote attention to tasks which could result in danger to persons or property C11 - an employee 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)

An investigation found that on December 8, 2024, Correctional Police Officer Tasgeana Richardson left her assigned post inside the secured perimeter at Garden State Youth Correctional Facility and did not return, the Department of Corrections reported. Richardson, scheduled as the Closed Custody Unit Officer, admitted to hanging out with her supervisor in the parking lot. She signed a settlement agreement for a 15-day suspension on June 26, 2025.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

An Investigation revealed that on 12/12/24, Garden State Youth Correctional Facility’s Senior Correctional Police Officer (SCPO) Tasgeana Richardson admitted to leaving her assigned post inside the secured perimeter of the institution at 1859 hours on 12/8/24. SCPO Richardson was scheduled to work on 12/8/24 at 1330 hours to 2130 hours as the Closed Custody Unit Officer. SCPO Richardson admitted to "hanging out" with their supervisor in the parking lot and never returned to their post. SCPO Richardson signed a settlement agreement for a 15-day suspension on 6/26/25.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $111,086
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 11 years, 7 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 723. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 215538, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩