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Therese Key

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2020

Suspended 30 days2020 · as reported

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.

Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2020[1]

Suspended 30 days
Rank as reported
Senior Corrections Officer (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
not applicable
Separated while IA pending
not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

Synopsis as reported by the agency

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.

Similar records

AnalysisComputed by this site from shared agency, year, charge category, and sanction outcome. Not a legal or factual equivalence.

  • Michael Green · Department Of Corrections · 2020

    Suspended 120 days

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  • Daniel Kaminsky · Department Of Corrections · 2020

    Suspended 10 days

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  • Derek Jovanovic · Department Of Corrections · 2020

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  • Alan Houghton · Department Of Corrections · 2020

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  • Asya Wyche · Department Of Corrections · 2020

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Other officers at Department Of Corrections

433 other named officers with reported major discipline records at this agency. Major discipline is final and post-appeal, as reported by the agency.

All 433 at the Department Of Corrections page

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis)
$119,844
Pension fund
Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service
17 years, 8 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.

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. [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. [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. [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/. ↩