Civil Service Decisions

The Commission dismissed the Appellant’s bypass appeal, concluding that the Appellant had no reasonable expectation of effectively overturning prior credibility assessments made by the Commission regarding whether he deliberately omitted information on an application and provided divergent accounts of past misconduct

An omission and conflicting information provided by the Appellant during the background investigation provided the Boston Police Department with reasonable justification to bypass him for appointment to the position of police officer.

The Commission allowed the appeal of the Appellant, a 37-year old, longtime resident of Boston, who has been repeatedly bypassed or non-selected for reasons related in large part to whether he has been truthful about the details of an incident that occurred during his teenage years while he was in high schoo.