Officials receiving pay in jail
9-7-2003
Public servants on trial don?’t deserve wages
Sunday, September 07, 2003
I read in the Aug. 27 Dispatch that a deputy sheriff was indicted by the grand jury for alleged sex acts with a female prisoner and, on the same page, that a judge was in jail awaiting trial for alleged arson.
The outrage is that we are paying these two substandard public servants their substantial salaries and benefits while they are not performing their jobs. Why can?’t their salaries be put in escrow until their trials are completed? If innocent, give it to them with interest. If guilty or they plea bargain to avoid trial, give it back to the taxpayers.
Doing anything else is a grave injustice to all who work hard and pay taxes to support the system. Laws have to be passed and union contracts amended to prevent such outrageous practices, not only for judges and law enforcement but for any employee paid by the taxpayers.
MARK FRIDAY
Blacklick
http://www.dispatch.com/editorials-story.php?story=dispatch/2003/09/07/20030907-C4-06.html
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This is a good idea. Can someone, like Brian Fox in his position as Executive Committee Chair, do anything about this, i.e. support Tim Schaffer's bill?
9-7-2003
Public servants on trial don?’t deserve wages
Sunday, September 07, 2003
I read in the Aug. 27 Dispatch that a deputy sheriff was indicted by the grand jury for alleged sex acts with a female prisoner and, on the same page, that a judge was in jail awaiting trial for alleged arson.
The outrage is that we are paying these two substandard public servants their substantial salaries and benefits while they are not performing their jobs. Why can?’t their salaries be put in escrow until their trials are completed? If innocent, give it to them with interest. If guilty or they plea bargain to avoid trial, give it back to the taxpayers.
Doing anything else is a grave injustice to all who work hard and pay taxes to support the system. Laws have to be passed and union contracts amended to prevent such outrageous practices, not only for judges and law enforcement but for any employee paid by the taxpayers.
MARK FRIDAY
Blacklick
http://www.dispatch.com/editorials-story.php?story=dispatch/2003/09/07/20030907-C4-06.html
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This is a good idea. Can someone, like Brian Fox in his position as Executive Committee Chair, do anything about this, i.e. support Tim Schaffer's bill?
