Stefano Barahona, CSC Docket No. 2024-2291
NJ Civil Service Commission decision of September 25, 2024, CSC Docket No. 2024-2291: discipline, penalty upheld. Stefano Barahona, Police Officer, Pompton Lakes, Police Department, removal, effective April 24, 2024, on charges of incompetency, inefficiency or failure to perform duties, conduct unbe
Commission decisions · Meeting of September 25, 2024
Stefano Barahona, Police Officer, Pompton Lakes, Police Department, removal, effective April 24, 2024, on charges of incompetency, inefficiency or failure to perform duties, conduct unbecoming a public employee, neglect of duty and other sufficient cause.
- Matter
- Discipline
- Decided
- September 25, 2024, item A-2
- Outcome
- Penalty upheld
- ALJ's recommendation
- Uphold the removal.
- What the Commission did with it
- Adopted the ALJ's recommendation
- Penalty appealed
- removal
- Title
- POLICE OFFICER
- Employer
- Pompton Lakes Borough
- Chair at the time
- Allison Chris Myers, Acting Chairperson
- Official decision
- CSC's PDF
Action recorded in the minutes: The Civil Service Commission affirmed the recommendation of the Administrative Law Judge.
The decision
CSC published this decision as a scanned image. The text below was recognized by OCR, read twice and checked against the meeting minutes, but OCR can misread a word. The official document is the record.
BackgroundThe appeal of Stefano Barahona, Police Officer, Pompton Lakes, Police Department, removal, effective April 24, 2024, on charges, was heard by Administrative Law Judge Nanci G. Stokes (ALJ), who rendered her initial decision on August 14, 2024. No exceptions were filed.
AnalysisHaving considered the record and the ALJ’s initial decision, and having made an independent evaluation of the record, the Civil Service Commission, at its meeting of September 25, 2024, accepted the Findings of Fact and Conclusions of the ALJ as well as her recommendation to uphold the removal.
ORDER
The Civil Service Commission finds that the action of the appointing authority in removing the appellant was justified. The Commission therefore upholds that action and dismisses the Stefano Barahona.
ClosingThis is the final administrative determination in this matter. Any further review should be pursued in a judicial forum.
About this page
Not an official copy. The decision of record is CSC's PDF. The text above was extracted from it by OCR and may differ in layout or, rarely, in a character.
Names appear as the Commission published them in its public minutes and decisions, initials where it used initials. This site does not offer a search by a person's name.
The labels are ours. The kind of matter and the outcome are our reading of the minutes; the ACTION text the Commission recorded is quoted verbatim above. A decision applies the rules to its own facts and is not a prediction for any other matter, and nothing here is legal advice.
To report an error on this page, use the contact form.