{"id":4028,"date":"2003-08-20T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2003-08-20T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=4028"},"modified":"2021-03-10T03:22:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T08:22:47","slug":"whistleblower-fired-based-on-failed-polygraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/20\/whistleblower-fired-based-on-failed-polygraph\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblower Fired Based on Failed Polygraph"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p><em>Beacon Journal<\/em> staff writer Craig Webb reports in an article titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20040203115149\/http:\/\/www.ohio.com\/mld\/ohio\/news\/6574037.htm\">&#8220;Falls police dispatcher loses job.&#8221; <\/a>Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The Cuyahoga Falls police dispatcher whose allegations about her bosses led to a major departmental shake-up is no longer on the job.<\/p><p>Mayor Don Robart said Tuesday that Kathleen M. Ball was fired as the result of a continuing departmental investigation.<\/p><p>Robart said the part-time dispatcher was dismissed earlier this month because investigators looking into police department problems did not believe she was truthful on a polygraph.<\/p><p>Robart also said Ball was talking publicly about the probe when she had been warned not to.<\/p><p>Ball, through a relative, declined to comment.<\/p><p>Based on Ball&#8217;s allegations of inappropriate behavior, the city last year spent $25,000 on a probe by personnel consultants Clemans, Nelson &amp; Associates of the department&#8217;s top brass. The investigation did not result in any criminal charges but brought about leadership changes.<\/p><p>Police Chief Gordon Tomlinson was demoted in December to sergeant of the midnight shift and ordered to undergo sexual harassment training and alcohol counseling or face firing.<\/p><p>His brother, Capt. Thomas Tomlinson, agreed to retire in exchange for not being fired.<\/p><p>The city did fire Sgt. Thomas Coffman for a variety of infractions, including using city computers to work on an outside venture, showing pornographic images and making inappropriate comments to co-workers. He is appealing the firing and seeking reinstatement to the force.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>A &#8220;failed&#8221; polygraph &#8220;test&#8221; is a convenient pretext for retaliation against whistleblowers. This story speaks to the need for passage of a <a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/ceppa.shtml\">Comprehensive Employee Polygraph Protection Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beacon Journal staff writer Craig Webb reports in an article titled, &#8220;Falls police dispatcher loses job.&#8221; Excerpt: The Cuyahoga Falls police dispatcher whose allegations about her bosses led to a major departmental shake-up is no longer on the job. Mayor Don Robart said Tuesday that Kathleen M. Ball was fired as the result of a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[487,488,32,94],"class_list":{"0":"post-4028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-ceppa","8":"tag-cuyahoga-falls","9":"tag-labor","10":"tag-ohio","11":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4029,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028\/revisions\/4029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}