Freehold Township
- 01Certified a 50,000.00 trust fund deposit as spent50,000.00
- 02FY2024 on hand figure is 6,029.89 above all money received6,029.89
- 03FY2025 on hand figure is 26,784.57 short of its own figures26,784.57
- 04FY2026 on hand figure is 10,391.42 short of its own figures10,391.42
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Freehold Township has received $345,567.12 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
- Access to Free Treatment
- Recipient
- High Focus Treatment Facility
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Received to date
- $53,234.37
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $174,050.69
- Received to date
- $168,020.80
filed
- Program name
- Access to Free Treatment
- Programs listed
- 3
- Amount expended
- $26,550.00
- Unspent on hand
- $208,119.78
- Received to date
- $267,454.35
filed
- Program name
- Access to Free Treatment
- Programs listed
- 4
- Amount expended
- $78,690.00
- Unspent on hand
- $227,835.70
- Received to date
- $345,567.12
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 FY2026 report certifies 78,690.00 spent between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026 (p1).
50,000.00 of it is a new program named Freehold Alliance Support, recipient Freehold Alliance Trust, in the County or Municipality category, with all 50,000.00 reported spent and 0.00 encumbered (p4 and p5). The report describes the purpose as "To support the activities of the Alliance in absence of GCADA funds" (p4) and the impact as financial support for the Alliance Coordinator and annual programs (p5). Asked for the procurement method, it answers "Municipality deposits opioid dollars into the Alliance Trust Fund annually" (p6). It reports 0 individuals served, a funding date of 7/1/2025 and a launch date of 1/1/2025, six months before the program was funded (p5). In the same report the Konscious Education Training update says the program was "supported under the Alliance Trst Fund" (p7). On the report's own words the 50,000.00 was deposited into a trust fund, not spent on a program. No ledger or trust fund record has been produced, so what the trust fund paid cannot be tested.
misreported-expenditure · 1 document · 10/03/2026The FY2024 report certifies 168,020.80 received since 2022 (p1).
That is the 53,234.37 the FY2023 report certifies received as of 06/30/2023, plus 110,440.89 received between 07/01/2023 and 06/30/2024, plus 4,345.54 of interest, to the cent. The FY2023 report certifies 0.00 expended. The FY2024 report certifies 0.00 expended, 0.00 encumbered and 0.00 administrative, and says no program was funded (p1 and p2). It then certifies 174,050.69 of unspent or uncommitted funds on hand (p1). That is 6,029.89 more than everything the Township says it ever received, interest included. No ledger has been produced.
unspent-misstated · 2 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2025 report certifies 267,454.35 received since 2022, interest included (p1).
That is the FY2024 total of 168,020.80 plus 90,773.32 received and 8,660.23 of interest between 07/01/2024 and 06/30/2025, to the cent. The FY2023 and FY2024 reports certify 0.00 expended. The FY2025 report certifies 26,550.00 expended and 6,000.00 encumbered (p1), and its three program lines, 3,200.00, 6,300.00 and 17,050.00, make the 26,550.00 to the cent (p2, p4 and p5). On those figures 234,904.35 is unspent and uncommitted. The report certifies 208,119.78 on hand (p1), 26,784.57 less. Either more was spent or committed than the report certifies, or the on hand figure is wrong. No ledger has been produced.
unspent-misstated · 3 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2026 report certifies 345,567.12 received since 2022 (p1).
That is the FY2025 total of 267,454.35 plus 70,351.69 received and 7,761.08 of interest between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026, to the cent. The reports certify 0.00 expended in FY2023 and FY2024 and 26,550.00 in FY2025. The FY2026 report certifies 78,690.00 spent and 2,100.00 encumbered (p1 and p2), and its four program lines, 50,000.00, 0.00, 6,000.00 and 22,690.00, make the 78,690.00 to the cent (p5, p7 and p8). On those figures 238,227.12 is unspent and uncommitted. The report certifies 227,835.70 on hand (p2), 10,391.42 less. Either more was spent or committed than the reports certify, or the on hand figure is wrong. No ledger has been produced.
unspent-misstated · 4 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 Freehold Township tell the State it spent the money on?
It certified 8 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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Freehold Township
Freehold Township told the State it spent 50,000.00 of its opioid settlement money in FY2026 on a program its own report describes as a deposit into a trust fund, and its reports give on hand balances that follow from none of their own figures.