POST denies Jackson-area waiver, rescinds earlier approval after video review

The Tennessee POST Commission on April 17 denied a criminal-record and military-discharge waiver request for a Jackson Police Department applicant and later rescinded a previously granted certificate approval tied to a separate Jackson County case after the agency provided video evidence.

During separate agenda items, the commission considered two Jackson-area requests. First, Jackson Police Department sought a waiver for Jordan Shane Neushenwander, who had been discharged from the U.S. Air Force in 2015 and had a 2015 DUI conviction in Bibb County, Georgia. Neushenwander told the commission he has been sober, is active in his church, and has worked in security since leaving the military. He said he had additional traffic-related incidents, and noted one Oklahoma City charge had been expunged.

The commission took a motion to deny Neushenwander's waiver. Commissioner Jeffress moved to deny the waiver and Mr. Gray seconded; commissioners voted in favor of the denial as recorded on the transcript.

Later the commission revisited a February approval related to Ryan Dubiel, an applicant whose residency and prior conduct were under scrutiny. Detective Shane Stanton of the Jackson County Sheriff's Office told the commission the agency reviewed video that contradicted the applicant's earlier testimony to the commission and subsequently terminated him. After Jackson County presented the update, a commissioner moved to rescind the earlier approval and to flag the individual's record in the national decertification/denial index (NDI); commissioners voted to rescind the prior approval and to enter the matter into statewide…