Barnegat Township
- 01Paid police overtime from the settlement fund13,495.93
- 02Certified a police message sign as prevention39,450.00
- 03Certified T-shirts as spent a year before it paid1,096.25
- 04Paid for four BMX stunt shows from the fund12,000.00
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Barnegat Township has received $351,954.61 in opioid settlement funds and spent $94,532.03 of it. Its largest single year difference between the report and the books is $3,000.00.
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
- Participation in the DEA National Rx Drug Take Back Day
- Recipient
- Barnegat Police Department
- Amount expended
- $1,247.56
- Received to date
- $68,395.63
filed
- Program name
- ARRIVE ALIVE TOUR PRESENTATION
- Recipient
- BARNEGAT TWP
- Recipient category
- County or Municipality (including Departments and Municipal Alliances)
- Programs listed
- 4
- Amount expended
- $9,465.59
- Unspent on hand
- $194,120.41
- Received to date
- $208,970.95
filed
- Program name
- EMT COURSE
- Recipient
- BARNEGAT TOWNSHIP POLICE DEPT
- Recipient category
- County or Municipality (including Departments and Municipal Alliances);First Responders, Law Enforcement, and Emergency Services
- Programs listed
- 5
- Amount expended
- $53,204.05
- Unspent on hand
- $217,831.42
- Received to date
- $288,185.63
filed
- Program name
- HOOKED ON FISHING NOT ON DRUGS
- Programs listed
- 3
- Amount expended
- $10,238.30
- Unspent on hand
- $258,554.34
- Received to date
- $351,954.61
11 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.
Eleven gross payroll postings between 05/03/2023 and 11/13/2025 charged 13,702.06 to the opioid accounts.
A journal of 06/19/2025 moved 206.13 of one officer's overtime back off, for a net 13,495.93. The Township's ADP labor distribution summaries show no regular hours in any of these pays. Every dollar is overtime. The Police Department's Overtime Activity report, filtered to the reason Opioid Funds, lists 99.00 hours at time and a half for DEA take back days, a Casting with a Cop fishing event and a Citizens Police Academy. The fishing event on 08/23/2025 alone took 49.00 hours across seven officers, the 5,008.09 posting of 09/04/2025. One entry reads Citizens Police Academy (Opioid Funds used for payment). The payroll charge distribution sheets list the opioid line among the Township's police overtime grant lines, beside Drive Sober and Click It or Ticket. For pays 8, 9 and 10 of 2026 a handwritten note on the same line reads Charge Ovg to PD OT, and those 1,884.26 never reached the opioid accounts. The Police overtime appropriation never fell. It was 300,000.00 in 2019 and 425,000.00 in 2026, and it ran over budget in five of the eight years. The Township certified the 2023 and 2024 postings and the FY2025 group to the State as National Take Back Day programs.
funding-source-substitution · 6 documents · 09/23/2026Purchase order 24-02168, dated 12/05/2024 and described as Sign Boards for Anti-Drug Msg, bought a Ver-Mac PCMS-548-CP portable changeable message sign from Certified Speedometer Service.
Check 46548 paid 39,450.00 on 05/06/2025, 30,561.11 from account G-02-40-395-023 and 8,888.89 from G-02-40-395-024. It is the only purchase order the Township issued to this vendor from 2018 through 2026. The FY2025 report certifies the same 39,450.00 to the Barnegat Township Police Department as the program Message Sign, in the category Primary Prevention, Education, and Training (p4). It is 74 percent of all spending the report certifies for the year. No record produced shows what the sign has displayed or where it has stood, and no evidence based prevention program using it is documented. A police message sign is not among the uses Exhibit E lists.
non-conforming-spending · 3 documents · 09/23/2026The FY2024 report certifies Hooked on Fishing Not on Drugs as a completed 1,096.25 program, funded and launched 06/01/2024, with nothing encumbered (p1, p7).
The books show purchase order 24-00704 to Howard J. Post, described as Casting w/A Cop 8/24/24 Tees. It bought navy T-shirts 1,031.25, screen charges 40.00 and art setup 25.00. Check 45528 paid them on 09/03/2024, in the FY2025 window. Payments in the FY2024 window total 8,369.34. The FY2024 report certifies 9,465.59, which is those payments plus the 1,096.25. The FY2025 report certifies 53,204.05, which is the 54,300.30 paid in the FY2025 window less the same 1,096.25. The two reports together match the books. The T-shirt purchase was reported in the year before it was paid.
misreported-expenditure · 4 documents · 09/23/2026The Township booked Dialed Action Agency, a BMX stunt show company, four times, at 3,000.00 each.
Purchase order 23-01554, National Night Out Performance, check 44205 on 09/05/2023. Purchase order 24-01375, Drug Awareness BMX Show, check 45489 on 08/06/2024. Purchase order 25-01017, check 47147 on 09/02/2025. Purchase order 26-01046, Drug Awareness-Family Night, check 48729 on 09/01/2026. All four were charged to the opioid accounts. The vendor history from 2018 through 2026 shows no other payment to this vendor from any fund. The FY2024 report certifies the first show as National Night Out Performance (p4), and the FY2025 report certifies the second as an update to it (p6). No evidence based prevention program built around the shows is documented. A stunt performance is not among the uses Exhibit E lists.
non-conforming-spending · 5 documents · 09/23/2026Artist-Tees.com sold the Township eight orders from 2018 through 2026, 11,658.95 in all.
Every order is police apparel or awards. Six went on the Current Fund police lines, 7,119.52, for Junior Police Academy uniforms and kits, Citizens Police Academy tees, tumblers and journals, and crossing guard plaques. Two went on the opioid accounts, 4,539.43 net of two 400.00 sponsorship credits. They are purchase order 25-01594, Casting w/COP-Drug Awareness, 2,250.20, and purchase order 26-01512, Casting w/Cop Event Tees, 2,289.23. Purchase order 25-01594 and the community policing order 25-01629 were paid on the same check, 47232, on 10/07/2025. Purchase order 26-01512 and the community policing order 26-01440 were paid on the same check, 48676, on 09/01/2026. The Township buys the same kind of apparel from the same vendor on its own police line.
funding-source-substitution · 3 documents · 09/23/2026Check 46169 paid Jersey Shore Medical Center 5,000.00 on 02/04/2025 for an EMT Basic initial course, purchase order 24-01826.
The FY2025 report certifies it to the Barnegat Township Police Department as the program EMT Course, in the category Treatment (p5). EMT Basic certification is general emergency medical training, not opioid use disorder treatment. The Township paid its other courses from the same vendor, a BLS instructor course, NREMT testing and a BLS online course, from its police professional line.
program-misclassification · 3 documents · 09/23/2026Purchase order 24-01548 to Innocorp, paid on check 45834 on 11/07/2024, totals 3,320.00.
It bought Fatal Vision goggles 1,690.00, a THC starter kit 1,170.00, THC online course seats 249.00 and 99.00, and shipping 112.00. The FY2025 report certifies the whole 3,320.00 to the Police Department as Fatal Vision Goggles, in the category Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention (p3). Of that, 1,518.00 is THC product. Marijuana education has no opioid abatement nexus, and impairment goggles are not harm reduction.
program-misclassification · 3 documents · 09/23/2026Purchase order 25-02145 to Advantage Sport and Fitness, dated 12/04/2025, bought a gym build out of 18 lines, including a rowing machine, a treadmill, weight racks, plates, suspension trainers, freight and installation.
Check 48484 paid 12,087.30 on 07/07/2026 from the opioid accounts. Purchase order 26-00925 to Amazon paid 693.12 on 05/05/2026 for a gym mirror, a squat attachment, sliding disks, a medicine ball target and dip stands. A 464.15 order from Coulter Ventures for more gym gear was voided on 06/16/2026. The vendor history shows no earlier payment to Advantage from any fund. The FY2026 report certifies the Amazon order as an Officer Wellness Program that buys fitness equipment for Police Department officers. No program in that report describes the Advantage build-out, which sits in its encumbered figure. The record does not show where the gym is.
unverified-spending · 4 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2024 report certifies 136,437.93 received and 4,137.39 interest.
The FY2025 report certifies 79,915.06 received and 3,437.01 interest. The FY2023 report certifies 68,395.63 received. Principal received through FY2025 is 284,748.62. The FY2024 unspent figure of 194,120.41 is principal received through FY2024, 204,833.56, less the 10,713.15 certified as expended in FY2023 and FY2024. The FY2025 unspent figure of 217,831.42 is 284,748.62 less the 63,917.20 certified as expended over three years and the 3,000.00 encumbered. Neither figure includes any of the 7,574.40 of interest the reports themselves certify. The FY2024 cumulative received of 208,970.95 includes the FY2024 interest. The FY2025 cumulative received of 288,185.63 is 284,748.62 plus only the FY2025 interest, so the 4,137.39 of FY2024 interest drops out of the running total.
unspent-misstated · 3 documents · 09/23/2026The FY2026 report lists a new program, the Officer Wellness Program, at 693.12 funded and spent, recipient Barnegat Police Department (pp4 to 7).
It gives the primary problem as supports effective response to overdose incidents and the primary category as Workforce Development and Capacity Building, with the Schedule B strategies First Responders and Training. It says settlement funds are being used to purchase fitness and wellness equipment for officers who respond to opioid emergencies, and reports 45 individuals served. Purchase order 26-00925 to Amazon Capital Services, check 48216 on 05/05/2026, bought a gym mirror 229.99, a weight belt squat attachment 299.00, core sliding disks 35.80, a medicine ball target 80.74 and heavy duty dip stands 47.59, 693.12 to the cent. The report names the purchase, but the category and the overdose framing do not describe it. No training was bought. Exhibit E's First Responders category lists wellness and support services for first responders who experience secondary trauma from opioid emergencies. No listed use covers gym equipment, and no wellness service using it is documented. The report's encumbered figure also holds a 12,087.30 gym build-out from Advantage Sport and Fitness, ordered 12/04/2025, that no program in the report describes.
program-misclassification · 3 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2026 report certifies 10,238.30 spent between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026 (p1).
That is the sum of its three programs for the year, Officer Wellness 693.12, the Hooked on Fishing update 7,670.55 and the National Take Back Day update 1,874.63 (pp5 to 9). The three opioid accounts paid 13,238.30 net in the same window. The difference is check 47147, 3,000.00, paid to Dialed Action Agency on 09/02/2025 for a Drug Awareness BMX Show on purchase order 25-01017, encumbered 05/15/2025. The FY2025 report certified 3,000.00 as encumbered at 06/30/2025. The FY2026 file reprints the FY2025 National Night Out update, which says the 3,000.00 encumbered was for that program (pp8 to 9). No report counts the payment as spent.
misreported-expenditure · 3 documents · 10/03/2026Patterns this jurisdiction appears in: Funding-source substitution · Police vehicles and gear
The ledger, as printed.
Account G-02-40-395-023, as printed from the jurisdiction's own accounting system. Classification follows the Exhibit E gates.
| Date | Check | PO | Payee and description | Amount | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05/03/2023 | 104122 | 23-00974 | BARNEGAT TWP PAYROLL ACCOUNT · PAY 9 GROSS PAYROLL | 1,247.56 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 09/05/2023 | 44205 | 23-01554 | DIALED ACTION AGENCY, LLC · National Night Out Performance | 3,000.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 11/02/2023 | 104157 | 23-02126 | BARNEGAT TWP PAYROLL ACCOUNT · PAY 22 GROSS PAYROLL | 1,247.56 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 05/02/2024 | 104194 | 24-00985 | BARNEGAT TWP PAYROLL ACCOUNT · PAY 9 GROSS PAYROLL | 1,271.78 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 06/06/2024 | 45157 | 24-00703 | UNITE CORPORATION · Arrive Alive Tour 4/29/24 | 2,850.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 08/06/2024 | 45489 | 24-01375 | DIALED ACTION AGENCY, LLC · Drug Awareness BMX Show | 3,000.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 09/03/2024 | 45528 | 24-00704 | HOWARD J. POST · Set up of Art | 25.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 09/03/2024 | 45528 | 24-00704 | HOWARD J. POST · Screen Charges | 40.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 09/03/2024 | 45528 | 24-00704 | HOWARD J. POST · Navy T-Shirts #64000 | 1,031.25 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 10/30/2024 | 104232 | 24-01966 | BARNEGAT TWP PAYROLL ACCOUNT · PAY 22 GROSS PAYROLL | 789.30 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 11/07/2024 | 45834 | 24-01548 | INNOCORP · THC Online Course Add'l Seat | 99.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 11/07/2024 | 45834 | 24-01548 | INNOCORP · Fatal Vision Label Goggles | 1,690.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 11/07/2024 | 45834 | 24-01548 | INNOCORP · THC Starter Kit #G2 | 1,170.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 11/07/2024 | 45834 | 24-01548 | INNOCORP · THC Online Course Seat | 249.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 11/07/2024 | 45834 | 24-01548 | INNOCORP · UPS Ground Shipping | 112.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 11/13/2024 | 104234 | 24-02038 | BARNEGAT TWP PAYROLL ACCOUNT · PAY 23 GROSS PAYROLL | 427.59 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 02/04/2025 | 46169 | 24-01826 | JERSEY SHORE MEDICAL CENTER · EMT-Basic Initial Course | 5,000.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 04/30/2025 | 104279 | 25-00958 | BARNEGAT TWP PAYROLL ACCOUNT · PAY 9 GROSS PAYROLL | 804.90 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 05/06/2025 | 46548 | 24-02168 | CERTIFIED SPEEDOMETER SVC.INC. · Ver-Mac Msg Sign #PCMS-548-CP | 30,561.11 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 05/06/2025 | 46548 | 24-02168 | CERTIFIED SPEEDOMETER SVC.INC. · Ver-Mac Msg Sign #PCMS-548-CP | 8,888.89 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 05/15/2025 | 104284 | 25-01026 | BARNEGAT TWP PAYROLL ACCOUNT · PAY 10 GROSS PAYROLL | 618.39 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 06/19/2025 | MOVE WALDER PAY 10 OT T.B.C. TO DDEF (Reference 4192) | -206.13 | Reversal · Non-conforming | ||
| 09/02/2025 | 47147 | 25-01017 | DIALED ACTION AGENCY, LLC · Drug Awareness BMX Show | 3,000.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 09/04/2025 | 104308 | 25-01661 | BARNEGAT TWP PAYROLL ACCOUNT · PAY 18 GROSS PAYROLL | 5,008.09 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 10/07/2025 | 47232 | 25-01594 | ARTIST-TEES.COM · Heavy Cotton Youth Tee #5000B | 689.40 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 10/07/2025 | 47232 | 25-01594 | ARTIST-TEES.COM · Heavy Cotton T-Shirt #5000 | 1,960.80 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 10/07/2025 | 25-01594 | ARTIST-TEES.COM · Sponsorship Discount | -400.00 | Reversal · Non-conforming | |
| 10/16/2025 | 104314 | 25-01848 | BARNEGAT TWP PAYROLL ACCOUNT · PAY 21 GROSS PAYROLL | 412.26 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 10/30/2025 | 104318 | 25-01963 | BARNEGAT TWP PAYROLL ACCOUNT · PAY 22 GROSS PAYROLL | 1,390.97 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 11/13/2025 | 104319 | 25-01990 | BARNEGAT TWP PAYROLL ACCOUNT · PAY 23 GROSS PAYROLL | 483.66 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 05/05/2026 | 48216 | 26-00925 | AMAZON CAPITAL SERVICES, INC. · HEAVY DUTY DIP STANDS | 47.59 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 05/05/2026 | 48216 | 26-00925 | AMAZON CAPITAL SERVICES, INC. · CORE SLIDING DISKS | 35.80 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 05/05/2026 | 48216 | 26-00925 | AMAZON CAPITAL SERVICES, INC. · MEDICINE BALL TARGET | 80.74 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 05/05/2026 | 48216 | 26-00925 | AMAZON CAPITAL SERVICES, INC. · Gym Mirror | 229.99 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 05/05/2026 | 48216 | 26-00925 | AMAZON CAPITAL SERVICES, INC. · WEIGHT BELT SQUAT ATTACHMENT | 299.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 06/16/2026 | 25-02146 | COULTER VENTURES, LLC. · SHIPPING VOID | 65.75 | Journal · Unverified | |
| 06/16/2026 | 25-02146 | COULTER VENTURES, LLC. · IP0915 VOID | 398.40 | Journal · Unverified | |
| 07/07/2026 | 48484 | 25-02145 | ADVANTAGE SPORT & FITNESS INC. · DELIVERY & INSTALLATION | 229.16 | Paid · Unverified |
| 07/07/2026 | 48484 | 25-02145 | ADVANTAGE SPORT & FITNESS INC. · IMPORT SURCHARGE | 57.30 | Paid · Unverified |
| 07/07/2026 | 48484 | 25-02145 | ADVANTAGE SPORT & FITNESS INC. · GYM EQUIPMENT BUILD-OUT paid, 16 lines (Concept2 erg 735.00, Concept2 FS 200.00, Torque XTTM4-PH-102 1,095.00, Escape APORTST33BLACK 6,495.00, Escape EST/DECK 354.00, TAG1-OBP-45 336.00, TAG1-OBP-25 188.00, TAG1-OBP-10 136.00, TAG1-RCK-KBR2-B 372.00, TAG1-ACC-OSC 100.00, TRX-CLUB4 195.00, TKO-281AL-15BK 38.00, TAG1-XERTONE-SET 61.00, York 80455 25.00, inbound freight 995.00, delivery and installation 475.84) | 11,800.84 | Paid · Unverified |
| 09/01/2026 | 48676 | 26-01512 | ARTIST-TEES.COM · Heavy Cotton T-shirt #5000 | 1,733.07 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 09/01/2026 | 48676 | 26-01512 | ARTIST-TEES.COM · Youth Cotton T-shirt #5000B | 956.16 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 09/01/2026 | 48729 | 26-01046 | DIALED ACTION AGENCY, LLC · Drug Awareness BMX Show | 3,000.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 09/01/2026 | 26-01512 | ARTIST-TEES.COM · Sponsorship Donantion (sic) | -400.00 | Reversal · Non-conforming | |
| Total paid | 95,538.16 | ||||
| Conforming abatement spending | 0.00 |
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.
Full width is $39,450.00, the largest payee total. Solid is the opioid account. Hatched is every other fund.
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 Barnegat Township tell the State it spent the money on?
It certified 13 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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Barnegat Township
Barnegat Township has paid 94,532.03 from its opioid settlement accounts, and none of it went to a listed use or a documented abatement program. The largest charge is a 39,450.00 police message sign that the Township certified to the State as prevention.