The Commission upheld the thirty-day suspension of a Correction Officer II for her inappropriate relationship with an incarcerated childhood friend and lack of candor and good judgment in continuing the relationship without notifying DOC or securing its approval.
The Commission rescinded the two-tour suspension of duty and reprimands of two Boston fire lieutenants after finding that the actions they took in response to a drunken off-duty firefighter engaging in racist and obnoxious behavior were reasonable and consistent with Boston Fire Department guidelines.
The Commission overturned the discharge of a Framingham Housing Authority maintenance worker as Framingham Housing Authority failed to prove that he had abandoned his job.
The Commission allowed the City of Chicopee’s motion to dismiss the appeal after concluding that the Commission had no jurisdiction over the matter of if and when vacation time should have been accrued to the Appellant.
The Commission affirmed the discharge of a Revere police officer who lied to state police, the Revere Police Department, and a mandatory reporter about an incident where her boyfriend had beaten and injured her young child.
The Commission reduced the discharge of a Chicopee police sergeant to a demotion for untruthfulness during a previous incident that had resulted in a reprimand of incompetence, as his untruthfulness had been known for over six years and two other officers who engaged in the same misconduct had not been discharged.
The Commission upheld the three-day suspension of a Haverhill police officer whose failure to physically check if a cell door was properly locked allowed a prisoner to leave his cell.
