In their opinion, the justices who sit on the court wrote that they had no choice but to defer to the arbitrator’s decision because Alaska doesn’t have a “zero-tolerance” public policy that makes off-duty sex with a crime victim a firing offense.
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Trooper Who Slept with Domestic Violence Victim Shouldn't Have Been Fired: Court
The Alaska Supreme Court upheld an arbitrator’s decision that the state’s Department of Public Safety was wrong when it fired a state trooper for having consensual sex with a domestic violence victim hours after helping to arrest her husband. So reports the Anchorage Daily News.
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