Hamilton Township
- 01Certified fire house AEDs as overdose harm reduction46,247.61
- 02Certified 141,271.22 on hand after receiving 108,102.5233,168.70
- 03FY2026 figures leave 31,907.65 of the fund unaccounted for31,907.65
- 04FY2026 certifies 28,702.00 spent, its one program 27,704.00998.00
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Hamilton Township has received $181,476.16 in opioid settlement funds. No ledger has been produced.
The money, four ways.
Four figures describe the same settlement money. Each one comes from a different document.
Certified against the books,
every report year.
Every year this jurisdiction has filed, and the year it has not. The match on each row is computed from the rows, not judged.
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Received to date
- $39,507.92
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $141,271.22
- Received to date
- $108,102.52
filed
- Program name
- N/A
- Recipient
- N/A
- Recipient category
- First Responders, Law Enforcement, and Emergency Services
- Amount expended
- $18,543.61
- Unspent on hand
- $163,747.70
- Received to date
- $150,187.03
filed
- Program name
- First Responders Readiness
- Recipient
- Hamilton Township Fire Houses
- Recipient category
- First Responders, Law Enforcement, and Emergency Services
- Amount expended
- $28,702.00
- Unspent on hand
- $102,322.90
- Received to date
- $181,476.16
4 findings.
Every finding is verified to the documents in its own row. An inference is labelled as one.
Red with the marker: a certified figure the books contradict.
The FY2025 report certifies one program at 18,543.61 expended.
Its name and recipient are N/A. Its description is "Purchase of Heart Start Onsite AED & Accessories." It is filed under Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention, with the primary problem Reduction of Overdose Related Deaths and the Schedule B strategy Prevent Overdose Deaths and Other Harms. Its performance indicator is "One time purchase of AEDs." Asked how the program addresses opioid use disorder, it answers N/A. The FY2026 report certifies First Responders Readiness at 27,704.00 expended, with the recipient Hamilton Township Fire Houses and the same description. It is again filed under Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention, with Treatment as a second category and 15 individuals served. The two reports certify 46,247.61 of opioid abatement funds spent on AEDs and accessories. An AED treats cardiac arrest. Exhibit E names naloxone and other drugs that treat overdoses, not defibrillators. No overdose program using this equipment is documented, and no listed use covers it. The Township has produced no ledger, so the payments behind the two figures cannot be traced.
program-misclassification · 2 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2024 report certifies 108,102.52 received since the distribution commenced in 2022, 0.00 of interest, 0.00 expended and 0.00 encumbered.
It certifies 141,271.22 in unspent and uncommitted funds on hand. That is 33,168.70 more than everything the Township says it ever received. The FY2025 report repeats the gap. It certifies 150,187.03 received since 2022, including interest, and 18,543.61 expended. It certifies 163,747.70 on hand. That is 13,560.67 more than everything received, and 32,104.28 more than the 131,643.42 its own figures leave. A balance on hand cannot exceed the money received. No ledger of the Township's opioid account has been produced.
unspent-misstated · 2 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2026 report certifies 181,476.16 received since 2022, 28,702.00 expended and 0.00 encumbered between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026, and 102,322.90 unspent and uncommitted on hand.
The four reports certify 47,245.61 expended in all, 0.00 as of 06/30/2023, 0.00 in FY2024, 18,543.61 in FY2025 and 28,702.00 in FY2026. Each certifies 0.00 encumbered and 0.00 of administrative expense. On those figures 134,230.55 should be on hand. The certified balance is 31,907.65 lower. The balance fell 61,424.80 from the 163,747.70 certified a year earlier, in a year the report certifies 31,289.13 received and 28,702.00 spent. No report accounts for the difference. No ledger of the Township's opioid account has been produced.
unspent-misstated · 4 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2026 report certifies 28,702.00 expended between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026.
The form asks for an entry for each program that spending funded. It lists one program, First Responders Readiness, at 27,704.00 spent and 0.00 encumbered. The total exceeds the program by 998.00, which no program accounts for. The report's statement of goals also names suction equipment and two officers attending the 2026 L.E.A.D. conference. Neither appears in a program entry. No ledger of the Township's opioid account has been produced.
self-contradiction · 1 document · 10/03/2026The ledger, as printed.
The opioid account as printed from the jurisdiction's own accounting system. Classification follows the Exhibit E gates.
No ledger line is published for this jurisdiction yet.
Vendors, and what paid them before.
What fund carried each payee before the opioid account, and how large the opioid slice is against the whole relationship. Bars share one scale.
No payee is published for this jurisdiction yet.
All documents are public records produced by the jurisdiction. Titles are the documents' own.
No dated event is published for this jurisdiction yet.
No correction received from this jurisdiction. If a figure on this page is wrong, send the record that shows it. The response is published here word for word.
Correct the recordCan opioid settlement money be spent on police cars or license plate readers?
No. Exhibit E of the national settlement lists the approved uses: treatment, recovery, prevention, harm reduction and related supports. Vehicles and surveillance hardware are not among the uses it lists, and state law bars using the funds to replace money a town would otherwise have spent.The approved uses
What did Hamilton Township tell the State it spent the money on?
It certified 2 programs to the Department of Human Services. Each program, its recipient and its amount are reproduced above, beside the payments in the account.See the reports
How was this grade computed?
By code, from a published rubric: reporting integrity 50 percent, spending conformity 40 percent, transparency 10 percent, with hard caps for a certified program that has no payee in the books, for an uncertified transfer out, and for a records refusal.The rubric
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Hamilton Township, Atlantic County
Hamilton Township certified 46,247.61 of defibrillators to the State as overdose harm reduction, filed balances higher than all the money it says it received, and has produced no ledger of its settlement account.