Galloway Township
Galloway Township certified a police investigative database, a police message board and police equipment to the State as drug prevention, counted July to December 2024 purchases in two report years, and has put none of its settlement spending to a documented abatement program.
Published 09/25/2026 · Updated 10/03/2026
TLDR
- Galloway Township told the State its settlement money ran a police drug prevention and awareness program.
- The purchases behind that program include a LeadsOnline investigative database for 13,605.00 and a message board for the Police Department for 20,550.00.
- The FY2024 report counted purchases made after the year closed. The FY2025 report counted the same 27,330.21 of purchases again.
- The FY2025 encumbered figure, 50,666.46, is the year's receipts less its spending. No open order supports it.
- The FY2026 report certifies 16,304.77 spent, the year's payments to the cent, as the same program. It also answers No to funding any program.
- Of 75,944.72 the account paid through 08/31/2026, no payment is documented as part of an abatement program.
Summary
Galloway Township, Atlantic County, reported receiving 195,852.80 in opioid settlement money through 06/30/2025. The national settlements list abatement uses such as treatment, recovery, connection to care, prevention and harm reduction. The list is not exhaustive. Other documented, evidence-based programs that address the epidemic also qualify. The money must add to existing spending, not replace it.
The Township's settlement account, G-02-41-716-000-000, paid 75,944.72 from 02/14/2023 to 08/31/2026, net of a 21.08 refund. It held 4,584.10 in open orders on 08/31/2026. This project classifies 53,688.55 of the payments as non-conforming and 22,256.17 as unverified. None is documented as conforming.
The Township's reports to the Department of Human Services certify 88,398.55 spent through 06/30/2025. The account paid 54,041.09 by that date. The FY2026 report certifies 16,304.77 for 07/01/2025 to 06/30/2026, which equals the account's payments in that year. Read the Township's findings.
What the Township told the State
The FY2023 report certifies 8,499.00 spent and names the Cops in Schools Program, run by the Galloway Township Police Department. The account paid one order that year, 8,499.00 to Kaeser and Blair Inc for opioid awareness supplies. The figures agree.
The FY2024 report certifies 41,310.21 spent. It names one new program, Galloway Township Police Department Drug Prevention and Awareness. Its primary category is Primary Prevention, Education, and Training. It describes educational resources about the dangers of opioids and connecting people with addiction to community resources. The FY2025 report certifies the same program at 38,589.34.
What the program bought
The ledger shows what the two certified figures are made of.
| Purchase | Paid | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| LeadsOnline, investigative system service | 05/14/2024 | 13,605.00 |
| Traffic Safety Service, message board for Police Dept. | 10/22/2024 | 20,550.00 |
| Police Department media, speaker, microphone and audio equipment | 07/09/2024 to 09/10/2024 | 4,395.69 |
| Bike patrol training, four registrations | 07/09/2024 to 10/08/2024 | 625.00 |
| Sex crimes information conference | 12/23/2024 | 650.00 |
| NJNEOA memberships, two | 05/14/2024 | 80.00 |
| Police exam gloves | 12/10/2024 | 520.00 |
| Vinyl wrap for a police F150 truck | 04/08/2025 | 2,969.00 |
| Wraps for two motorcycles and three helmets | 10/28/2025 | 4,095.00 |
| Total | 47,489.69 |
The reports name none of these purchases. No record produced shows any of them used in a prevention or education program. Certified police gear and training as drug prevention.
The LeadsOnline vendor report covers every account from 2018 to 2026. The 13,605.00 is the only payment on it. Paid 13,605.00 for a police investigative database.
The Traffic Safety Service vendor report shows one purchase in the same years, the message board. It is the largest payment from the account. Paid 20,550.00 for a Police Department message board.
The same purchases in two years
The FY2024 report covers 07/01/2023 to 06/30/2024. The account paid 14,285.00 in that period.
| Record | Amount |
|---|---|
| Certified expended, FY2024 | 41,310.21 |
| Paid 01/01/2024 to 12/31/2024, fifteen payments | 41,015.21 |
| Line 2 of order 24-01569, voided 07/03/2024 | 295.00 |
| Paid in the FY2024 period | 14,285.00 |
The certified figure is calendar 2024. It leaves out a 600.00 conference paid in December 2023. It adds 27,330.21 paid from July to December 2024, after the year closed. The program page gives the program a launch date of 01/01/2024. FY2024 report counted purchases made after the year closed.
The FY2025 report covers 07/01/2024 to 06/30/2025.
| Record | Amount |
|---|---|
| Certified expended, FY2025 | 38,589.34 |
| Paid in the FY2025 period, before a 21.08 refund | 31,257.09 |
| Order 25-01530, motorcycle and helmet wraps, paid 10/28/2025 | 4,095.00 |
| Order 25-01570, T-shirts, paid 07/08/2025 | 2,942.25 |
| The same voided line of order 24-01569 | 295.00 |
The 27,330.21 of July to December 2024 purchases, the message board among them, sits in both years. Two orders unpaid at 06/30/2025 are counted as spent. FY2025 report counted the same purchases a second time.
What the reports say is left
The FY2025 report certifies 50,666.46 encumbered. It also certifies 89,255.80 received and 38,589.34 spent in the year. The first figure is the second less the third, to the cent. On 06/30/2025 the account held two open orders totaling 7,037.25, and the report already counts both as spent. Certified a 50,666.46 encumbrance no open order supports.
The FY2024 report certifies 1,388.52 encumbered. Five order lines make that figure to the cent. Two of them were first encumbered on 07/03/2024, after the year closed. The certified unspent balance of 78,252.38 subtracts payments made through 07/09/2024. That the balances were struck in July 2024 is this project's inference. FY2024 encumbrance matches orders open in July 2024.
Purchases the Township already made from other accounts
The Dash Medical Gloves vendor report shows the Police Personnel Expendable Supplies line buying gloves and patrol supplies from this vendor in each year from 2018 to 2022. It paid 520.00 for exam gloves on 03/26/2024. The settlement account paid an identical 520.00 on 12/10/2024. The police line bought gloves again on 12/23/2025. New Jersey law, N.J.S.A. 26:2G-39(f), requires settlement money to add to local spending, not replace it. Paid for police gloves the police supply line also buys.
The Kaeser and Blair vendor report shows Cops in School giveaways paid from the Community Policing account in 2022. It shows Cops in Schools purchases paid from Municipal Alliance accounts in 2024, 2025 and 2026. The settlement account paid the same vendor 9,645.24 for opioid awareness supplies, drug prevention stickers and community policing basketballs. That the settlement money replaced spending those accounts would otherwise have carried is this project's inference. Settlement money bought giveaways other accounts paid for.
FY2026
The FY2026 report covers 07/01/2025 to 06/30/2026. It certifies 16,304.77 spent. The account paid exactly that in ten payments from 07/08/2025 to 04/14/2026, for T-shirts, football jerseys, a tent, yard signs, stickers, sports balls, a first aid case and the motorcycle wraps.
| Record | Amount |
|---|---|
| Certified expended, FY2026 | 16,304.77 |
| Paid 07/08/2025 to 04/14/2026, ten payments | 16,304.77 |
| Of which already certified as spent in FY2025, orders 25-01530 and 25-01570 | 7,037.25 |
The report puts the whole 16,304.77 in the Drug Prevention and Awareness program. Its Question 17 answers No to whether the Township funded any program in the year. The motorcycle wraps and the first T-shirt order were certified as spent in FY2025, before they were paid, and now sit in both years. Certified 16,304.77 spent, then said no program was funded.
Spending since 06/30/2026
In July and August 2026 the account paid 5,619.94 for e-bikes and helmets. It holds open orders for an e-bike rack, embroidered e-bike bags and a 4,235.00 PD vehicle wrap. The update to the ledger closes at 87,609.83 on 08/31/2026. Committed 10,204.04 to e-bikes and a vehicle wrap in 2026.
What the records do not show
The Township produced its receipts only from 04/01/2026. Six settlement receipts from 05/07/2026 to 08/05/2026 total 27,985.82. Earlier deposits are not in the record, so the certified receipts cannot be tied to the books.
The Township did not produce the police budget lines for community relations, community policing, crime prevention and drug awareness that were requested. Those lines would show whether settlement money replaced police spending.
Some purchases may have carried prevention messages. The FY2024 report mentions decals advertising the State's addiction help line. No record produced shows what the wraps, signs or giveaways display. This project classifies those purchases as unverified, not as conforming.
What should happen
The account paid 53,688.55 for purchases no documented abatement program uses. The Township can restore that money to the fund and spend it on a listed use or a documented, evidence-based program.
The open orders for e-bike equipment and a police vehicle wrap were still open on 08/31/2026. The Township can cancel them against this account.
The State relies on these reports to verify compliance. The Department of Human Services and the Office of the State Comptroller should examine the FY2024 and FY2025 reports, who prepared them, and what records support them.
How this project classifies spending is set out in the methodology and the rubric. Corrections follow the corrections policy.