Grievance Information Detail
Multiple awards:
Grievance is GRANTED. Grievant was charged with failing to complete a field sketch and failing to look for the site of a disabled vehicle once it had been reported to him. The disabled vehicle was between 1/2 and 1/4 of a mile away from the Grievant’s location. The Arbitrator found that the Grievant was otherwise occupied in securing treatment for the injured driver and in dealing with a property owner, tow truck and ambulance. The fact that the injured driver needed medical treatment excused his failure to complete the sketch. As for the second incident, the Arbitrator found that there was disparate treatment because two officers who had been sent to find the reported disabled vehicle did not find it for over 30 minutes and they were not investigated or disciplined.
Grievance is DENIED. Grievant was charged with making an unauthorized release of information to the media when he questioned the local prosecuting attorney’s investigation into the Grievant’s son’s involvement in a fatal traffic accident. The Arbitrator found that the Highway Patrol can reasonable regulate statements made to the press and that the Grievant should have asked whether his statements in the letter to the editor would violate the OHP rules before he made the statements.
Grievance is GRANTED. Grievant was charged with failing to complete a field sketch and failing to look for the site of a disabled vehicle once it had been reported to him. The disabled vehicle was between 1/2 and 1/4 of a mile away from the Grievant’s location. The Arbitrator found that the Grievant was otherwise occupied in securing treatment for the injured driver and in dealing with a property owner, tow truck and ambulance. The fact that the injured driver needed medical treatment excused his failure to complete the sketch. As for the second incident, the Arbitrator found that there was disparate treatment because two officers who had been sent to find the reported disabled vehicle did not find it for over 30 minutes and they were not investigated or disciplined.
Grievance is DENIED. Grievant was charged with making an unauthorized release of information to the media when he questioned the local prosecuting attorney’s investigation into the Grievant’s son’s involvement in a fatal traffic accident. The Arbitrator found that the Highway Patrol can reasonable regulate statements made to the press and that the Grievant should have asked whether his statements in the letter to the editor would violate the OHP rules before he made the statements.