Stant v. City of Maricopa Employee Merit Board

OPINION

ECKERSTROM, Judge.

¶ 1 Appellant Carlton Stant challenges the superior court’s judgment affirming the termination of his employment by the Maricopa Police Department (“the department”) and the decision upholding that action by appellees, the City of Maricopa Employee Merit Board (“the board”) and the city manager of Maricopa (“the city”). We affirm for the reasons that follow.

Factual and Procedural Background1

¶ 2 In May 2010, the department launched an internal affairs investigation into whether a certain police officer had circumvented the chain of command by sending an e-mail to the…