Pogue v. Crawford

Introduction

PATRICIA L. COHEN, Judge.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the Circuit Court of St. Francois County reversing the Personnel Advisory Board’s (“PAB”) decision to affirm the Department of Corrections’ (“DOC”) decision to dismiss Brian Pogue. 1

Background

Mr. Pogue was a Corrections Caseworker I at Farmington Correctional Center (“FCC”), a medium security facility for male offenders where he had worked for nearly twelve years. On May 31, 2005, Joe Robinson, FCC’s Safety Manager and Drug Test Coordinator, contacted Mr. Po-gue pursuant .to the DOC’s random drug testing program and…