OFFENSE

EMPLOYER’S PENALTY

RESULT ON APPEAL

DESCRIPTION

CASE NAME

Conduct Unbecoming On Duty

Termination

Reinstatement With Back Pay

Employer failed to provide deputy with notice prior to disciplinary hearing of charges against him. Arbitrator concluded “specific notice of wrongdoing must be given. It simply is not enough to say ‘he did it and he knows what he did.’”

Stark County Sheriff, 118 LA 407 (Feldman, 2003).

Criminal Conduct

Termination

Termination

Deputy sheriff was involved in high-profile series of home invasions and burglaries made by three individuals in sheriff’s uniforms who entered homes on pretense of serving what ultimately proved to be fake warrants.

Barrett v. Sanders, 2003 WL 21488665 (Ga.App. 2003).

Unauthorized Flying

Transfer

No Transfer

Two officers took unauthorized training flight in Department plane, eventually having to make an emergency landing in another state. Chief, who was embarrassed by publicity over the incident, immediately transferred the officers back to patrol. Contract forbids the use of transfers as mode of discipline.

City of El Paso, 118 LA 855 (Allen, 2003).