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Bypass Appeal dated April 6, 2017 Daveiga, Nuias v. Boston Police Department - Related Appeals Court Decision 4/6/17
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The Boston Police Department was justified in bypass the Appellant for appointment as a police officer based on prior misconduct involving the use of a racial slur against owners of a restaurant.
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By a 4-1 vote, the Commission's majority concluded that, notwithstanding flaws in the review process, the City was able to show, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the Appellant's problematic prior employment history justified his bypass for firefighter.
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The Commission denied the Appellant's bypass appeal. The Appointing Authority had reasonable justification to bypass a candidate for appointment as a police officer who provided implausible, inconsistent and incomplete responses about his residency and employment history during the application process.
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The Commission dismissed the Appellant's bypass appeal for Boston Police Officer based in part on the Appellant's repeated failure to list all prior employers on his employment applications.
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The Commission dismissed this appeal based on the fact that the Appellant was not bypassed for appointment. Rather, he was not selected from a group of tied candidates and no candidate ranked below him was appointed.
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The Commission denied the original bypass appeal of a New Bedford Police Officer candidate as nobody appointed had been ranked below him on the eligible list.
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For multiple reasons cited in this decision, the City of Newton was unable to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the positive results of a hair drug test, which, unlike urine drug testing, has not been approved by federal regulators, was conclusive of ingestion of an illegal drug, the reason for bypass.
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The Commission allowed the bypass appeal of a candidate seeking appointment to the Lowell Police Department given that Lowell Police Department wrongfully relied on the candidate's payment-default license suspension and failed to consider the candidate's positive driving record in the National Guard.