Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Tenica Nazario

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2024

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Major discipline · 2024^[1]

Suspended 10 days

Rank as reported: Correctional Police Sergeant
Sustained charge(s): N.J.A.C. 4A: 2-2.3(a) 6. an employee N.J.A.C. 4A: 2-2.3(a) 12. . C11: an employee. E1: Violations 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)

The Department of Corrections suspended Correctional Police Sergeant Tenica Nazario for 10 days in 2024. On April 4, 2024, Nazario was charged with simple assault, a disorderly persons offense, over a domestic violence incident that occurred while she was in NJDOC uniform and duty belt, and she was found to be the aggressor. The charges were later dismissed. Nazario signed a settlement agreement on July 3, 2024.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

An investigation revealed that on April 4, 2024, Sgt. Nazario was charged with N.J.S.A. 2C:12-1a. Simple Assault, a disorderly persons offense for a Domestic Violence incident. while in NJDOC uniform and duty belt, Sgt. Nazario was found to be the aggressor in the incident. the charges were later dismissed. Sgt. Nazario signed a settlement agreement on this matter on July 3, 2024 .

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $56,942
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 19 years, 3 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 1355. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 216071, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩