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Dallas ethics panel finds employee forged coworkers signature; orders 1-2 hour training
Summary
The Ethics Advisory Commission accepted a plea from a Parks and Recreation employee who admitted forging a colleagues signature on a bid memo for playground materials and unanimously ordered referral to 1'hour ethics training.
The Ethics Advisory Commission on May 12 held an evidentiary hearing after David Smith, an employee in the City of Dallas Department of Park and Recreation, admitted forging a coworker's electronic signature on a December 2023 bid memo for playground materials at Willie Mae Butler Park in East Dallas. The panel accepted Smith's plea of "true" to two ethics violations and, by unanimous vote, referred him for 1 to 2 hours of ethics training.
The panel began by taking jurisdiction over an information filed by the Office of Inspector General and admitting 27 exhibits the inspector's office offered into evidence. The inspector general's opening summary said the December 13 memo misstated the materials and quantities needed for the…
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