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Vito Vitone

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2025

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Major discipline · 2025^[1]

Suspended 15 days

Rank as reported: Senior Correctional Police Officer
Sustained charge(s): (a) General Causes (12) HRB 84-17, as amended D7 - Violation of administrative procedure and/or regulations involving safety and security 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)

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.

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.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $114,697
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 21 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 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/. ↩