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Kitsap County Deputy Sheriff's Guild v. Kitsap County

Citations

  • 167 Wash. 2d 428

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  • recognizing that an explicit, well-defined, and dominant public policy may stem from federal statutes that impose an affirmative duty to prevent misconduct by law enforcement officers
  • “Washington has no similar statute . . . placing an affirmative duty on counties to prevent police officers from ever being untruthful.”
  • arbitration decision to reinstate deputy sheriff who was terminated for twenty-nine documented incidents of misconduct, including untruthfulness, did not violate explicit, well-defined, and dominant public policy
  • adopting \the narrow public policy exception to enforcing arbitration decisions\

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Judges: Alexander, Chambers, Johnson, Kulik, Madsen, Owens, Sanders, Stephens

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