Florida District Courts of Appeal, 1998

Washington v. Department of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles

Washington v. Department of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles
Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided June 19, 1998 · Blue, Frank, Whatley
721 So. 2d 312; 1998 Fla. App. LEXIS 7388; 1998 WL 320242 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

Washington v. Department of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles

Opinion of the Court

FRANK, Acting Chief Judge.

Willie R. Washington seeks review of the Public Employees Relations Commission’s final order increasing the hearing officer’s recommended discipline of a sixty-day suspension to dismissal from his employment as a Florida Highway Patrol Corporal. It is undisputed that Mr. Washington was an excellent employee during his ten years of employment and had received only one oral reprimand. We reverse because the increase in penalty does not comport with the standards set forth in Criminal Justice Standards Training Commission v. Bradley, 596 So.2d 661 (Fla. 1992).

Accordingly, we reverse and remand for the Public Employees Relations Commission’s reconsideration of the penalty imposed upon Washington in the light of Bradley.

BLUE and WHATLEY, JJ., concur.

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