South Plainfield
- 01FY2025 report accounts for 96,244.38 more than it received96,244.38
- 02FY2025 encumbrance of 120,698.58 names no program120,698.58
- 03FY2024 balance on hand falls 17,161.31 short of its figures17,161.31
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
South Plainfield has received $200,664.59 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
- Opioid Education and Prevention
- Recipient
- South Plainfield
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Received to date
- $35,936.64
filed
- Program name
- Opioid Education and Prevention
- Amount expended
- $20,050.00
- Unspent on hand
- $74,196.00
- Received to date
- $111,407.31
filed
- Program name
- Cops & Bobbers, Stay Hooked on Fishing, Not Drugs
- Recipient
- Borough of South Plainfield
- Recipient category
- First Responders, Law Enforcement, and Emergency Services
- Programs listed
- 2
- Amount expended
- $10,459.59
- Unspent on hand
- $123,100.12
- Received to date
- $158,013.91
filed
- Program name
- Cops & Bobbers, Stay Hooked on Fishing, Not Drugs
- Programs listed
- 2
- Amount expended
- $11,150.50
- Unspent on hand
- $147,020.94
- Received to date
- $200,664.59
3 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 158,013.91 received since the distribution commenced in 2022, including interest.
In the same report it certifies 10,459.59 expended in the period, 120,698.58 appropriated or encumbered and not yet spent, and 123,100.12 in unspent and uncommitted funds on hand. Those three figures total 254,258.29, which is 96,244.38 more than everything the Borough reports receiving, before counting the 20,050.00 the FY2024 report certifies as expended the year before. The report does not say which figure is wrong, and no ledger has been produced.
unspent-misstated · 2 documents · 09/23/2026The FY2025 report certifies 120,698.58 appropriated or encumbered and not yet spent between 07/01/2024 and 06/30/2025, more than three quarters of the 158,013.91 the Borough reports receiving since 2022.
The report funds one new program, Cops & Bobbers, Stay Hooked on Fishing, Not Drugs, at 10,459.59, all expended with 0.00 encumbered. Its update on the 2023 program, Opioid Education and Prevention, reports 0.00 expended. No program in the report carries any part of the 120,698.58, and the FY2024 report certifies 0.00 encumbered. No record able to show the commitment has been produced.
encumbrance-unsupported · 2 documents · 09/23/2026The FY2024 report certifies 111,407.31 received since 2022 and 20,050.00 expended, with 0.00 encumbered and 0.00 on administration.
The FY2023 report certifies nothing expended through 06/30/2023. By those figures 91,357.31 remained on hand at 06/30/2024. The report certifies 74,196.00 unspent and uncommitted, 17,161.31 less, and does not explain the difference.
reporting-contradiction · 2 documents · 09/23/2026The 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 Plainfield tell the State it spent the money on?
It certified 6 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