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| Frm. Officer Wins Lawsuit Against DepCor |
| By kuam.com |
| Published: 09/02/2010 |
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Guam - The Department of Corrections will have to pay more than $29,000 to an officer who was found in possession of drugs not once, but twice. The same officer was terminated from the agency and appealed the actions with the Civil Service Commission. The actions were reversed, but DepCor isn't management isn't taking the blame. Despite first being suspended and then terminated from the Department of Corrections after he was caught in possession of crystal meth twice, Aric Garcia won his case with the CSC and had those actions reversed. DepCor Director J.B. Palacios maintains that wasn't because of anything he or his department did, telling KUAM News, "Him prevailing has nothing to do with our actions and the justification of our actions. It all came down the reversal all came down on the procedural delay of filing, in this case the Attorney General's Office that was representing us, Attorney General Abrahms filed a late response." While Garcia resigned in the midst of an investigation into a foiled escape plan last year, because of the CSC's decision DepCor must now pay the former officer more than $27,000 in backpay for the time he wasn't employed. Add to that more than $13,000 in attorney's fees. Read More. |
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