What Is The Case Of Johnson V. Laverkin City Case Brief

In the case of Johnson v. Laverkin City, a married police officer was punished for having an affair with another married officer from another department while attending a training conference. Sharon Johnson was a police officer for the Laverkin City Police Department. While employed, Ms. Johnson separated from her husband and filed for divorce in 2003. Her husband reacted negatively by violating a protective order and threatening to kill himself and her. While dealing with the divorce, Ms. Johnson was sent to a police training conference and while she was there, she had an affair with another officer that was from a different department. Somehow, her husband found out about the affair and notified her supervisors that she had been raped. Chief Seegmiller conducted an investigation and realized that the affair was consensual and she received no punishment for her actions. This angered her husband, so he made another false allegation. This time he said that Johnson and Chief Seegmiller were involved in an affair together. The

So she received a verbal reprimand under the same terms. “The reasoning for the discipline was based upon the law enforcement code of ethics requiring officers to ‘keep [their] private life unsullied as an example to all and behave in a manner that does not bring discredit to [the] agency.’ The reprimand said Ms. Johnson has allowed her personal life to interfere with her duties as a police officer” (Hosier, 2008). Since Ms. Johnson allowed her private life to affect her duties as an officer by engaging in sexual relations with another officer while attending a training conference, which was paid for by the City of Laverkin, she was punished. It was expected of her to carry herself in a way that was acceptable with city and departmental