Gray v. State Personnel Board

Opinion

RACANELLI, P. J.

Appellant, Jonathan S. Gray, appeals from a judgment denying his petition for writ of mandate to review the State Personnel Board’s (hereafter Board) decision dismissing him from his position as a state correctional officer. On the appeal, Gray argues that the evidence presented to the Board did not establish a nexus between his work and his admitted misconduct while off duty. In addition he challenges the penalty of dismissal as an abuse of the Board’s discretion.

While off duty from his job as a state correctional officer at Soledad, Gray drove to his former…