Personnel
Undue familiarity between correction officer and inmate calls for dismissal from service.
ALJ John B. Spooner sustained charges that a correction officer engaged in undue familiarity with an ex-inmate and made false statements about the relationship.
ALJ Spooner found the officer's testimony that the two had never met before the ex-inmate had completed his sentence lacked credibility, considering that the officer had worked in the same dormitory where the inmate was incarcerated for three months under her supervision.
Dep't of Correction v. Tillery (in PDF) , OATH Index No. 467/12 (Dec. 30, 2011).