McCall v. Alabama State Personnel Board

In February 2006, John McCall (“the employee”), who had been charged in August 2005 with having committed the crimes of sodomy in the first degree and sexual abuse in the first degree, was dismissed from his employment with the Alabama Department of Corrections (“DOC”), a state agency. After the employee had sought review by the Alabama State Personnel Board (“the Board”) of his dismissal, he agreed to enter a plea of guilty to a lesser charge of harassing communications with the understanding that all criminal charges would be dropped upon his having undergone sex-offender evaluation and…