In re the Claim of Barresi

—Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed August 10, 1995, which ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because his employment was terminated due to misconduct.

Claimant, a Deputy Sheriff Sergeant, was terminated from his position due to his careless safekeeping of a personally owned firearm. A hearing concerning claimant’s application for unemployment insurance benefits was subsequently held before an Administrative Law Judge (hereinafter ALJ). The ALJ gave collateral estoppel effect to the findings of the Hearing…