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Milwaukee board upholds discharge of plan examiner after workplace‑violence finding
Summary
The Board of City Service Commissioners voted Dec. 15 to deny an appeal by Brian Dean, a former plan examiner specialist, and affirmed his discharge for violations of the city's workplace‑violence prevention policy; the decision followed testimony from staff, video stills and emails.
The Board of City Service Commissioners in Milwaukee voted Dec. 15 to deny the appeal of Brian Dean, a former plan examiner specialist, and to uphold his discharge for violating the city's workplace‑violence prevention policy.
The five commissioners voted in favor of the department's actions after a full-day hearing that included testimony from departmental managers, a review of camera stills and a trove of emails and personnel records. The commission first voted that the department had cause to discipline the employee and then voted to affirm the discharge.
The department's human resources administrator, Shanice Burnell Jones, told the commissioners that the investigation found a pattern of conduct that included an on‑site encounter in September that prompted staff concern and triggered the department's disciplinary process. "The investigation ... reveals repeated violations of the city's…
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