Department of Juvenile Justice v. Civil Service Commission

In May 2009, an administrative law judge (ALJ) recommended that codefendant, Josie Day, be discharged from her employment based on Day’s admission that she tape-recorded her coworkers’ conversations without their knowledge. Two weeks later, codefendants, the Illinois Civil Service Commission, Chris Kolker, Raymond W. Ewell, Barbara J. Peterson, Ares G. Dalianis, and Betty Bukraba (collectively, the Commission), adopted the ALJ’s factual findings but concluded that discharge of Day was not warranted. Instead the Commission determined that a 90-day suspension constituted an appropriate sanction.