On May 29, 2025, while supervising an incarcerated person Highway Detail off Garden State Youth Correctional Facility grounds, Senior Correctional Police Officer Vito Vitone drove into a local park and allowed the incarcerated persons to use public Porta-Johns without conducting proper security checks, the Department of Corrections reported. One incarcerated person had prearranged a meeting with a female acquaintance inside a Porta-John to exchange cash, contraband and sex. Vitone signed a settlement agreement for a 15-day suspension on July 9, 2025.
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Synopsis as reported by the agency
A New Jersey Department of Corrections (NJDOC) Special Investigations Division investigation revealed that on 5/29/25, Garden State Youth Correctional Facility’s Senior Correctional Police Officer (SCPO) Vito Vitone, while off institutional grounds supervising an incarcerated person Highway Detail, drove into a local park and allowed the incarcerated persons to use public Porta-Johns without doing proper security checks of those bathrooms. The investigation revealed that one of the incarcerated persons had prearranged and executed a surreptitiously meeting with a female acquaintance inside the Porta-John to exchange cash, contraband and sex. On 7/9/25, SCPO Vitone signed a settlement agreement for a 15-day suspension.
Sustained charge(s): NJAC 4a:2-2.3(a) General Causes (1) Incompetency, inefficiency or failure to perform duties (6) Conduct unbecoming a public employee (7)…
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
Sustained charge(s): N.J.A.C. 4A:2-2.3(a) General Causes (12) Other Sufficient Cause HRB 84-17, as amended A1 - Unsatisfactory attendance, Chronic or excessive…
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
Sustained charge(s): N.J.A.C. 4A:2-2.3(a) General Causes (12) Other Sufficient Cause HRB 84-17, as amended A1 - Unsatisfactory attendance, Chronic or excessive…
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
Sustained charge(s): N.J.A.C. 4A:2-2.3(a) General Causes (12) Other Sufficient Cause HRB 84-17, as amended A1 - Unsatisfactory attendance, Chronic or excessive…
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
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.
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Police Transparency NJ, "Vito Vitone, Department Of Corrections," last updated 2026-09-28, https://policetransparencynj.com/officers/vito-vitone-dept-of-corrections/. Source records: New Jersey Office of the Attorney General.
Questions and answers
What is a summary of Vito Vitone's major discipline record?
On May 29, 2025, while supervising an incarcerated person Highway Detail off Garden State Youth Correctional Facility grounds, Senior Correctional Police Officer Vito Vitone drove into a local park and allowed the incarcerated persons to use public Porta-Johns without conducting proper security checks, the Department of Corrections reported. One incarcerated person had prearranged a meeting with a female acquaintance inside a Porta-John to exchange cash, contraband and sex. Vitone signed a settlement agreement for a 15-day suspension on July 9, 2025.
What is Vito Vitone's major discipline record at Department Of Corrections?
Vito Vitone has one major discipline record at Department Of Corrections in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Vito Vitone's base salary on record?
Vito Vitone's reported base salary is $114,697, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Vito Vitone has 21 years, 3 months of reported service.
How large is Department Of Corrections, the department Vito Vitone 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 Vito Vitone individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 752. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 215632, 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/. ↩