Cliffside Park
- 01Certified a police enforcement dog as harm reduction53,925.70
- 02Certified 43,690.70 of police canine as prevention43,690.70
- 03FY2025 on hand figure is 133,001.28 below its own math133,001.28
- 04FY2024 on hand figure is 45,628.88 below its own math45,628.88
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Cliffside Park has received $267,740.71 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
- Program name
- Cliffside Park Opioid Awareness Program
- Recipient
- Borough of Cliffside Park
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Received to date
- $45,628.88
filed
- Program name
- Opioids Settlement
- Recipient
- Borough of Cliffside park
- Recipient category
- County or Municipality (including Departments and Municipal Alliances)
- Amount expended
- $11,467.08
- Unspent on hand
- $127,154.40
- Received to date
- $184,250.36
filed
- Program name
- Consulting
- Recipient
- Borough of Cliffside Park
- Recipient category
- County or Municipality (including Departments and Municipal Alliances)
- Programs listed
- 2
- Amount expended
- $69,245.70
- Unspent on hand
- $15,982.88
- Received to date
- $229,696.94
filed
- Program name
- Canine
- Recipient
- Borough of Cliffside Park
- Recipient category
- County or Municipality (including Departments and Municipal Alliances)
- Amount expended
- $43,690.70
- Unspent on hand
- $126,300.73
- Received to date
- $267,740.71
6 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 lists a program named K9 Program, recipient Borough of Cliffside Park (p4).
It names the primary problem as Drug Awareness and Enforcement and describes the program in one word, K9. Its statement of impact is "Enforcement for opioid possession and distribution. Deterrent." It reports 1 participant served (p4). It says the K9 "will be for deterrence and enforcement" (p5). It files the program under the primary category Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention, with the Schedule B strategy Address the Needs of Criminal Justice-Involved Persons, bought on State Contract (p5). The report certifies 96,613.23 funded, 53,925.70 expended and 42,687.53 encumbered (p4). Exhibit E's harm reduction category covers naloxone, overdose response education, syringe services, testing and mobile harm reduction units. Its criminal justice category covers diversion, treatment and recovery services for people with opioid use disorder in the justice system. No listed use covers a police enforcement dog, and no overdose program using the dog is documented. The Borough has produced no transaction ledger.
program-misclassification · 1 document · 10/03/2026The FY2026 report lists one program, Canine, recipient Borough of Cliffside Park (p4).
It names the primary problem as Enforcement (p4). It describes the program as "Added canine capabilities for opioids prevention and or enforcement" and gives the key performance indicator "Increase visible enforcement" (p5). It files the program under the primary category Primary Prevention, Education, and Training, lists Enforcement as its other category, and names the Schedule B strategy Address the Needs of Criminal Justice-Involved Persons, bought on State Contract (p6). It certifies 43,690.70 funded and spent, equal to the 43,690.70 certified at Q6 (p1, p5). It reports 27,000 individuals served (p5). The report's goals say the Borough will "Utilize the canine obtained with the funds" (p2). Exhibit E's prevention category names media campaigns, school and youth prevention programs, coalitions and drug take-back, not police enforcement. No listed use covers a police canine, and no overdose program using the dog is documented. The FY2025 report had already certified a K9 Program at 96,613.23. The FY2026 report files the canine as a new program and reports no update to that one. The Borough has produced no transaction ledger.
program-misclassification · 2 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2025 report certifies 229,696.94 received since 2022, interest included, and 69,245.70 expended between 07/01/2024 and 06/30/2025 (p1).
The FY2024 report certifies 11,467.08 expended in its period, and the FY2023 report certifies 0.00 expended as of 06/30/2023. On the Borough's own reports, 80,712.78 was spent and 148,984.16 was left on 06/30/2025. The FY2025 report certifies 15,982.88 of unspent or uncommitted funds on hand (p1). That is 133,001.28 less than the reports leave. Setting aside the 17,540.30 the report certifies as encumbered still leaves 131,443.86. The certified figure follows from neither.
unspent-misstated · 3 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2024 report certifies 184,250.36 received since 2022 and 11,467.08 expended between 07/01/2023 and 06/30/2024 (p1).
The FY2023 report certifies 0.00 expended as of 06/30/2023. On the Borough's own reports, 172,783.28 was left on 06/30/2024. The FY2024 report certifies 127,154.40 of unspent or uncommitted funds on hand, the same figure it certifies as appropriated or encumbered but not spent (p1). That is 45,628.88 less than the reports leave, which equals the 45,628.88 the FY2023 report certifies as received through 06/30/2023.
unspent-misstated · 2 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2025 report certifies 17,540.30 appropriated or encumbered but not spent between 07/01/2024 and 06/30/2025 (p1).
Its program list reports two programs. Consulting is fully spent at 15,320.00 with 0.00 encumbered (p3). The K9 Program reports 42,687.53 encumbered (p4). The program list therefore carries 42,687.53 encumbered, 25,147.23 more than the certified total. The two spent figures, 15,320.00 and 53,925.70, add to the 69,245.70 certified at Q6, so the list and the totals agree on spending and disagree on what is committed.
self-contradiction · 1 document · 10/03/2026The FY2026 report certifies 267,740.71 received since 2022, 43,690.70 spent between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026 and 0.00 encumbered (p1, p2).
The three earlier reports certify 80,712.78 spent through 06/30/2025. On the Borough's own reports, 124,403.48 was spent and 143,337.23 was left. The FY2026 report certifies 126,300.73 of unspent or uncommitted funds on hand (p2), 17,036.50 less. It also contradicts the year before. The FY2025 report certifies 15,982.88 on hand. Add the 38,043.77 received in FY2026 and take away the 43,690.70 spent, and 10,335.95 remains. The FY2026 figure is 110,317.85 higher than that.
unspent-misstated · 4 documents · 10/03/2026Patterns this jurisdiction appears in: Police vehicles and gear
The 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 Cliffside Park tell the State it spent the money on?
It certified 5 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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Cliffside Park Borough
Cliffside Park Borough certified a police enforcement dog to the State as harm reduction in FY2025 and as prevention in FY2026, 97,616.40 across the two years, and its reports cannot agree on how much settlement money it has left.