NJ Civil Service Commission meetings and decisions
Every NJ Civil Service Commission meeting since 2019: the agenda, what was decided, and each decision with the rules it applies linked, searchable by kind of matter, title and employer.
Every meeting of the New Jersey Civil Service Commission since January 2019: what was on the agenda, what the Commission decided, the decision itself with every rule it applies linked to the rule, and the decisions it relied on. Read from the agendas, minutes and decisions CSC publishes at nj.gov/csc.
Next meeting: November 4, 2026 · CSC posts the agenda about a week ahead
October 14, 2026: the Commission met; CSC has not posted the minutes yet. What was on the agenda.
Most recent meeting with minutes: September 2, 2026 (26 items).
Search every decision by kind of matter, outcome, title, employer or rule · Chair/CEO decisions
The record by the numbers
4,421 matters at 145 meetings, January 16, 2019 to September 2, 2026. Counts describe matters decided at Commission meetings. Settled, withdrawn and unappealed cases never reach a meeting, so these are not odds for any particular appeal.
Appeals: outcome by kind of matter
"Went the appellant's way" counts grants, reversals and partial relief. Only appeals are counted (not requests an agency brings, such as a new title), and a share is shown only when at least 10 were decided.
| Kind of matter | Decided | Went the appellant's way |
|---|---|---|
| Examination eligibility | 754 | 54% |
| Examination scoring or administration | 683 | 31% |
| Removal from an eligible list | 671 | 41% |
| Discipline | 614 | 35% |
| Discrimination, retaliation or State Policy | 182 | 12% |
| Position classification | 164 | 13% |
| Request for reconsideration | 164 | 19% |
| Petition for interim relief or a stay | 95 | 32% |
| Bypass on a certification | 88 | 2% |
| Working test period | 40 | 15% |
| Reassignment, salary or separation | 28 | 46% |
| Counsel fees or back pay | 24 | 58% |
| Salary overpayment waiver | 20 | 20% |
| Leave or benefits | 14 | 43% |
Discipline: what happened to the penalty
Of 448 discipline appeals the Commission decided on the penalty, it left 293 as imposed, reduced 87 and reversed 68.
Removal from an eligible list, by the ground given
| Ground in the minutes | Decided | Name restored or appeal granted |
|---|---|---|
| Psychological evaluation | 220 | 36% |
| Falsification or omission | 92 | 24% |
| Background check | 82 | 32% |
| Did not respond or appear | 81 | 69% |
| Not stated in the minutes | 73 | 44% |
| Criminal record | 69 | 54% |
| Driving record | 44 | 18% |
| Employment record | 29 | 14% |
| Medical evaluation | 15 | 40% |
| Residency | 14 | 50% |
| Age | 5 | too few to compare |
| Education | 1 | too few to compare |
Hearing matters: what the Commission did with the ALJ's recommendation
| Year | Matters | Adopted | Modified | Rejected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 69 | 62 | 0 | 7 |
| 2020 | 70 | 63 | 5 | 2 |
| 2021 | 83 | 68 | 3 | 12 |
| 2022 | 79 | 76 | 2 | 1 |
| 2023 | 76 | 74 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 76 | 75 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 79 | 76 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026 | 55 | 51 | 0 | 4 |
Who has chaired the Commission
Read from the minutes of each meeting and the signature on each decision.
- Mary CruzActing Chairperson · March 18, 2026 to September 28, 2026
- Allison Chris MyersActing Chairperson · January 18, 2023 to March 4, 2026
- Deirdre L. Webster CobbChairperson · January 16, 2019 to December 21, 2022
Every meeting
2026
Mary Cruz began presiding on March 18, 2026.
- January 21
- February 4
- February 25
- March 18
- April 8
- April 29
- May 20
- June 10
- July 1
- July 22
- August 12
- September 2
2025
- January 15
- February 5
- February 26
- March 19
- April 9
- April 30
- May 21
- June 11
- July 2
- July 23
- August 13
- September 10
- September 24
- October 1
- October 15
- November 5
- November 26
- December 17
2024
- January 17
- February 7
- February 28
- March 20
- April 10
- May 1
- May 22
- June 12
- July 3
- July 24
- August 14
- September 4
- September 25
- October 16
- November 6
- November 27
- December 18
2023
Allison Chris Myers began presiding on January 18, 2023.
- January 18
- February 1
- February 22
- March 15
- March 29
- May 3
- May 24
- June 7
- June 28
- July 19
- August 2
- August 23
- September 20
- October 11
- November 1
- November 22
- December 6
- December 20
2022
- January 19
- February 2
- February 16
- March 2
- March 23
- April 6
- April 27
- May 18
- June 15
- June 29
- July 20
- August 3
- August 24
- September 21
- October 12
- November 2
- November 23
- December 7
- December 21
2021
- January 20
- February 3
- February 17
- March 3
- March 24
- April 7
- April 28
- May 19
- June 2
- June 30
- July 21
- August 4
- September 1
- September 22
- October 6
- October 27
- November 17
- December 1
- December 15
2020
- January 15
- January 29
- February 12
- February 26
- March 12
- April 15
- April 29
- May 20
- June 3
- June 17
- July 1
- July 17
- July 29
- August 19
- September 2
- September 16
- September 30
- October 21
- November 4
- November 24
- December 16
2019
- January 16
- February 6
- February 20
- March 6
- March 27
- April 17
- April 24
- May 9
- May 22
- June 12
- June 26
- July 9
- July 31
- August 14
- September 10
- September 25
- October 23
- November 6
- November 19
- December 4
- December 18
About this record
Sources. Everything here comes from the agendas, minutes and decisions the New Jersey Civil Service Commission publishes at nj.gov/csc, and the monthly archive bundles it publishes for 2019 through 2022. CSC does not publish its record before 2019 online. NJ Civil Service Navigator is an independent publication, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or an official resource of the State of New Jersey or the New Jersey Civil Service Commission.
What we add. Each decision is joined to the minutes item that decided it, to the rules and statutes it cites, to the job title and employer it concerns, and to the decisions it relies on. The kind of matter and the outcome are our classification of the minutes; the Commission's own words are quoted beside them. Counts carry their denominators, and a share is not shown for fewer than 10 matters.
Scanned decisions. About one in eight older decisions was published as a scanned image. Their text is recognized twice by OCR and checked against the minutes; a scan that cannot be confirmed shows only the facts the minutes record and the link to the official document.
Where CSC's documents disagree. On 37 pages, CSC's own documents disagree with each other, for example the minutes and a decision's caption giving different docket numbers. The minutes are treated as the index of record and the page says what disagrees. Each such note was checked against the exact documents CSC published and upheld by an independent review that tried to refute it.
Names. Appellants are named as the Commission named them in its public record, and identified only by initials where it used initials. This site does not offer a search by a person's name. To report an error, use the contact form. Nothing here is legal advice.