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Friday, February 20, 2009

Internal Investigation Flip Flops

This will be an ongoing feature meant to catalogue the flip flopping by city officials on the idea of internal investigations. It's meant to illustrate the fact that when local officials want to be exonerated of certain charges - it's okay to order an internal investigation (investigate themselves) and then use their own investigation to defend themselves.

The most glaring examples of the double standard was when full time police officer Jim Fitzpatrick was investigated. The SPD would not bring in outside investigators. But when that reserve officer (what's his name?) was charged for importuning, acting Chief Sams brought in an outside investigator to "avoid the appearance of impropriety."

It'd be nice to have the SR articles for this feature - but I can't remember the name of that reserve officer or how to find the article. Does anybody remember his name?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I FOUND IT! ! ! I FOUND IT ! ! !

His name is Victor M. Grant.

The 3 articles about him are:

http://www.sanduskyregister.com/articles/2009/02/02/front/doc498747a34d491626770594.txt


http://www.sanduskyregister.com/articles/2009/02/03/front/1128275.txt


http://www.sanduskyregister.com/articles/2009/01/23/front/1104047.txt


Where do I go to pick up my prize for finding this information?

Bryan said...

Haha. You get a cash prize of $200 in monopoly money.

Anonymous said...

GREAT! Thanks 411! I'll put that towards my home mortgage relief.......

Bryan said...

In that case, let's make it a $1.4 trillion prize. What are ya gonna do with your new budget surplus?

Anonymous said...

Wow! I feel like the government now! Thanks 411! !

I'll share some of it with you under the table (wink, wink)....just like the government does.