The unions said the county created a new condition of employment when Sheriff Robert Luna threatened to discipline or fire anyone who didn’t fully cooperate with the inspector’s general investigation.
Deputies levied a veiled threat against Inspector General Max Huntsman on a defaced poster in a sheriff’s station. Nothing happened.
It wasn’t immediately clear what the consequences would be for any deputies who received letters and refused to cooperate. Then on Thursday, Luna sent a department-wide email directing his staff to comply with the inspector general’s request. Any employees who obstruct or delay an investigation, the email said, could be disciplined or fired under current county policies.
“The OIG has made the deliberate decision to not subpoena any of the recipients of the OIG letter but to instead ‘direct’ recipients to ‘appear and answer” questions, the unions wrote last week. “The decision to do so is an attempt to evade this commission’s decision and order directing the county to not issue subpoenas to ALADS and PPOA members pending the completion of the negotiations process.”
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