On Saturday, September 12, 2020, Senior Corrections Officer Therese Key, then assigned as the first-shift sergeant, entered the front lobby carrying a brown paper bag and intentionally circumvented the security checkpoint, including the view scan machine and x-ray machine. The Department Of Corrections suspended Key for 30 days.
on--Sat., 9/12/20--while--assigned--as--the--1st--shift--Sergeant, the officer entered the front lobby of the building carrying a brown paper bag and intentionally circumvented the security checkpoint area including the view scan machine and x-ray machine.
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 (matching name, exact employing agency, police-confirmed occupation, no competing candidate, and a scored match probability above the published floor; see the methodology), not a certified identity. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.
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Police Transparency NJ, "Therese Key, Department Of Corrections," last updated 2026-09-28, https://policetransparencynj.com/officers/therese-key-dept-of-corrections/. Source records: New Jersey Office of the Attorney General.
Questions and answers
What is a summary of Therese Key's major discipline record?
On Saturday, September 12, 2020, Senior Corrections Officer Therese Key, then assigned as the first-shift sergeant, entered the front lobby carrying a brown paper bag and intentionally circumvented the security checkpoint, including the view scan machine and x-ray machine. The Department Of Corrections suspended Key for 30 days.
What is Therese Key's major discipline record at Department Of Corrections?
Therese Key has one major discipline record at Department Of Corrections in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2020. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Therese Key's base salary on record?
Therese Key's reported base salary is $119,844, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Therese Key has 17 years, 8 months of reported service.
How large is Department Of Corrections, the department Therese Key worked for?
Department Of Corrections reported 4,741 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Therese Key individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2974. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 213289, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
[3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8641. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩