Butner v. City of Pasco

— Lieutenant Glenn Butner appeals his discharge from the Pasco Police Department, contending: (1) we should review his case de novo; (2) the Civil Service Commission erroneously considered certain polygraph examination results; (3) the Commission was biased; (4) the Commission incorrectly based his discharge on a violation of an order not to speak to the press; and (5) the Commission abused its discretion in upholding the discharge instead of ordering less drastic sanctions. We affirm.

The Commission's findings of fact are not challenged. Butner was discharged after 19 lh years with the Pasco…