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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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.
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.