City of Mobile v. Grissett

ROBERTSON, Presiding Judge.

This is an employee suspension case.

Walter Grissett was suspended for five days without pay from his position as a Corrections Officer with the City of Mobile Police Department for violation of Unit Order # 86-016. Unit order # 86-106 provided that all keys were to be secured and logged in at the docket room on the first floor of the jail. Grissett kept his keys in the kitchen cook’s office in violation of the order, and as a result, an inmate procured his keys and escaped.

Grissett appealed his suspension through three steps of grievance proceedings. At the third…