South Orange Township
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
South Orange Township has received $101,719.02 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
- Full Time Crisis Intervention Social Worker
- Recipient
- Township of South Orange
- Programs listed
- 2
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Received to date
- $24,285.08
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $59,320.63
- Received to date
- $59,320.63
filed
- Program name
- Full Time Crisis Intervention Social Worker
- Amount expended
- $26,527.78
- Unspent on hand
- $56,811.56
- Received to date
- $83,339.34
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $72,820.59
- Received to date
- $101,719.02
1 finding.
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 FY2026 report certifies 101,719.02 received since 2022, 18,379.68 of it between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026, with 0.00 of interest, 0.00 spent and 0.00 encumbered in the year (pages 1 and 2).
Across the four reports the only spending certified is 26,527.78 in FY2025, on the Full Time Crisis Intervention Social Worker (FY2025 report, pages 1 and 2). Received less spent leaves 75,191.24. The FY2025 report certified 56,811.56 on hand at 06/30/2025, and that balance plus the 18,379.68 received in FY2026 also gives 75,191.24. The FY2026 report certifies 72,820.59 of unspent and uncommitted funds currently on hand (page 2). That is 2,370.65 less, in a year the report says nothing was spent, encumbered or transferred. The report gives no reason for the difference. The Township has produced no ledger.
unspent-misstated · 2 documents · 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 South Orange Township tell the State it spent the money on?
It certified 3 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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South Orange reported 101,719.02 in opioid settlement money received and 26,527.78 spent, then certified a FY2026 balance on hand 2,370.65 below what its own figures leave, in a year it says nothing was spent.