Enforcements for Department of Corrections

Violation: An Office Assistant 3 with the Department of Corrections, agreed that they may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by using state resources for private benefit or gain. Evidence indicated they used their state computer to browse the internet including travel, real estate, social media and shopping websites.

Result: An agreed Stipulation and Order was entered on March 8, 2024, imposing a civil penalty of $5,500 with $1,000 suspended.

Violation: A Correctional Industries Supervisor 2 with the Department of Corrections agreed that they may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by using state resources for private benefit or gain. Evidence indicated that they visited sports websites, YouTube and social media websites.

Result: An agreed Stipulation and Order was entered on May 10, 2024, imposing a civil penalty of $2,000 with $1,000 suspended.

Violation: A Corrections and Custody Officer 2 with the Department of Corrections was found to have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by using state resources for personal benefit or gain. Evidence indicated that they used state resources for non-work-related activities, specifically by using the internet and their DOC Teams account for personal use.

Result: A Final Order of Default was entered on May 10, 2024, imposing a civil penalty of $3,000.

Violation: A former employee with the Department of Corrections, agreed that they may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by using state resources for private benefit or gain. Evidence indicated they used their state email address to send and receive personal email.

Result: An agreed Stipulation and Order was entered into on July 12, 2024, imposing a civil penalty of $750.

Violation: A Corrections and Custody Officer 2 with the Department of Corrections, agreed that they may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by using state resources for personal benefit. Evidence indicated that they browsed the internet visiting numerous news websites, ESPN and YouTube.

Result: An agreed Stipulation and Order was entered on November 8, 2024, imposing a civil penalty of $500 with $200 suspended.

Violation: A Correctional Lieutenant at the Washington State Penitentiary with the Department of Corrections, agreed that they may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by using state resources for private benefit or gain.

Result: An agreed Stipulation and Order was entered on July 14, 2023, imposing a civil penalty of $500 with $100 suspended.

Violation: A Correctional Sergeant at the Washington State Penitentiary with the Department of Corrections, agreed that they may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by using state resources for personal benefit or gain. Evidence indicated that they used online streaming services and browsed the internet for non-work-related purposes.

Result: An agreed Stipulation and Order was entered on July 14, 2023, imposing a civil penalty of $2,500 with $1,000 suspended.

Violation: A Correctional Unit Supervisor at the Washington State Penitentiary with the Department of Corrections, agreed that they may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by using state resources for personal benefit or gain. Evidence indicated that they browsed the internet for non-work-related purposes including shopping sites, social media and online college, conducted an extensive amount of personal Google searches and browsed YouTube

Result: An agreed Stipulation and Order was entered on July 14, 2023 ,imposing a civil penalty of $5,500 with $1,000 suspended.

Violation: A Correctional Lieutenant at the Washington State Penitentiary with the Department of Corrections, agreed that they may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by using state resources for personal benefit or gain. Evidence indicated that they had several Google searches and YouTube visits over a six-month period.

Result: An agreed Stipulation and Order was entered on July 14, 2023, imposing a civil penalty of $1,500 with $750 suspended.

Violation: A Correctional Lieutenant at the Washington State Penitentiary with the Department of Corrections, agreed that they may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by using state resources for personal benefit or gain. Evidence indicated that they browsed the internet for non-work-related purposes including multiple Goggle and YouTube visits, social media and shopping sites.

Result: An agreed Stipulation and Order was entered on July 14, 2023, imposing a civil penalty of $2,500 with $1,000 suspended.

Violation: A Correctional Lieutenant at the Washington State Penitentiary with the Department of Corrections, agreed that they may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by using state resources for personal benefit or gain. Evidence indicated that they browsed the internet for non-work-related purposes including over a thousand Goggle searches and several Amazon, ESPN and other news sites.

Result: An agreed Stipulation and Order was entered on July 14, 2023 imposing a civil penalty of $5,000 with $1,000 suspended.

Violation: A Correctional Sergeant at the Washington State Penitentiary with the Department of Corrections, agreed that they may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by using state resources for personal benefit or gain. Evidence indicated that they browsed the internet for non-work-related purposes including several Goggle searches, YouTube and social media sites on two different state computers.

Result: An agreed Stipulation and Order was entered on July 14, 2023, imposing a civil penalty of $3,000 with $1,000 suspended.

Violation: A Correctional Sergeant at the Washington State Penitentiary with the Department of Corrections, agreed that they may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by using state resources for personal benefit or gain. Evidence indicated that they browsed the internet for non-work-related purposes including hundreds of Goggle searches, YouTube and travel sites on two different state computers.

Result: An agreed Stipulation and Order was entered on July 14, 2023, imposing a civil penalty of $5,500 with $1,000 suspended.

Violation: A Correctional Lieutenant at the Washington State Penitentiary with the Department of Corrections, agreed that they may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by using state resources for personal benefit or gain. Evidence indicated that they browsed the internet for non-work-related purposes including YouTube, TV streaming services, CNN and food sites.

Result: An agreed Stipulation and Order was entered on July 14, 2023, imposing a civil penalty of $5,000 with $1,000 suspended.

Violation: A Correctional Lieutenant at the Washington State Penitentiary with the Department of Corrections, agreed that they may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by using state resources for personal benefit or gain. Evidence indicated that they browsed the internet for non-work-related purposes including YouTube, Yahoo and social media sites.

Result: An agreed Stipulation and Order was entered on July 14, 2023, imposing a civil penalty of $2,500 with $1,000 suspended.

Violation: A Correctional Lieutenant at the Washington State Penitentiary with the Department of Corrections, agreed that they may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by using state resources for personal benefit or gain. Evidence indicated that they browsed the internet for non-work-related purposes including multiple visits to news sites, several Google searches and YouTube visits.

Result: An agreed Stipulation and Order was entered on July 14, 2023, imposing a civil penalty of $5,000 with $1,000 suspended.

Violation: A Dental Hygienist 2 at the Washington State Penitentiary with the Department of Corrections, agreed that they may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by using state resources for personal benefit or gain. Evidence indicated that they used online streaming services and browsed the internet for non-work related purposes.

Result: An agreed Stipulation and Order was entered on July 14, 2023, imposing a civil penalty of $1,500 with $750 suspended.

Violation: A Classification Counselor 2, with the Department of Corrections, may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by using state resources for private benefit and gain. Evidence indicated that spent an excessive amount of time using two different browsers to access the internet for private benefit to include Madden Football, Fantasy Football, music and gaming sites.

Result: An agreed Stipulation and Order was entered on November 12,2021 imposing a civil penalty of $3,000 with $1,000 suspended.

Violation: A Correctional Sergeant at the Monroe Correctional Complex with the Department of Corrections, may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by using state resources for private benefit. Evidence indicated that they used his state email for personal use and browsed the internet for an average of just over two hours per shift over a 17-day period.

Result: An agreed Stipulation and Order was entered on May 13, 2022 imposing a civil penalty of $2,500.

Violation: Former Psychology Associate Health Services at the Larch Corrections Center with the Department of Corrections agreed that they may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by using state resources for an outside business.

Result: An agreed Stipulation and Order was entered on July 8, 2022 imposing a civil penalty of $2,500.

Violation: Former Laundry Supervisor at the Coyote Ridge Correctional Center with the Department of Corrections, may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by receiving pay for time not worked. Evidence indicated that they failed to submit leave for at least 53 hours during a 12-month review period.

Result: An agreed Stipulation and Order was entered on May 14, 2021 imposing a civil penalty of $2,000.

Violation: Corrections Officer 2 with the Department of Corrections, may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by using state resources for private benefit or gain. Evidence indicated that over a five-month period they accessed the internet for personal use at least once on 93 different days.

Result: An agreed Stipulation and Order was entered on May 14, 2021 imposing a civil penalty of $2,500 with $1,000 suspended.

Violation: A Corrections Specialist with the Department of Corrections, may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by using their position to secure special privileges and using state resources for private benefit or gain. Evidence indicated that they were using state equipment during working hours to do work as an adjunct instructor for Heritage University and spending time browsing the internet for non-work-related reasons.

Result: An agreed Stipulation and Order was entered on January 8, 2021 imposing a civil penalty of $2,500 with $500 suspended.

Violation: A Corrections & Custody Officer 2 at the Monroe Correctional Complex, may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by using state resources for private benefit and gain. Evidence indicated that they had been using their state computer to access various websites for real estate, shopping and animals for personal benefit.

Result: An agreed Stipulation was entered on July 10, 2020 imposing a civil penalty of $1,500 with $500 suspended.

Violation: A former Administrative Assistant at the Department of Corrections, may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by using state resources in support of their outside business. Evidence indicated that they had been using their state computer to send and receive emails related to their outside business and stored business documents on the state server.

Result: An agreed Stipulation was entered on July 10, 2020 imposing a civil penalty of $2,000.

Violation: Registered Nurse at the Washington Correctional Center with the Department of Corrections, may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by using their state computer to browse the internet for personal benefit and gain, for storing hundreds of non-work-related images on their state computer and downloading copies of novels on their work computer.

Result: An agreed Stipulation and Order was entered on May 14, 2021 imposing a civil penalty of $2,000 with $500 suspended.

Violation: A Physician Assistant at the Washington State Penitentiary may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act when they took time off from work without submitting the proper leave slips.

Result: An agreed Stipulation was entered on January 11, 2019 imposing a civil penalty of $1,500 with $500 suspended.

Violation: A former Office Assistant at the Olympic Corrections Center with the Department of Corrections violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by taking time off from work without submitting the proper leave slips.

Result: A final order of Default was entered on September 13, 2019 imposing a civil penalty of $3,000.

Violation: A Department of Corrections supervisor took time off from work without submitting the proper leave slips and allowed a subordinate to take time off without requiring them to submit leave for their time off. Evidence indicates they received pay for at least 282 hours of time that they were not at work and did not submit the proper leave slips over a 5-month period.

Result: A settlement was approved on September 8, 2017 imposing a civil penalty of $6,000 with $1,000 suspended.

Violation: A Physician's Assistant with the Department of Corrections used state resources for private benefit and gain by taking time off without submitting the proper leave requests. Evidence indicated that they took 210 hours off from work, was paid for the time and leave was not subtracted from their leave balance. They repaid the Department for all of the hours.

Result: Settlement approved on September 8, 2017 imposing a civil penalty of $2,500

Violation: A Department of Corrections employee may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act when they accepted a gift of Mariner's tickets from an agency contracted vendor.

Result: An agreed settlement was approved on March 24, 2017 imposing a civil penalty of $1,500 with $750 suspended.

Violation: A Warehouse Operator Supervisor with the Department of Corrections may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act when they accepted a gift from an agency contracted vendor. Evidence indicated that they accepted free tickets to a Mariner's game including space in a suite and free parking for the event.

Result: A Stipulated agreement was approved on July 14, 2017 imposing a civil penalty of $2,000 with $1,000 suspended.

Violation: A Chaplin for the Washington Corrections Center for Women may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act when they used state resources to browse the internet for personal benefit and gain. Evidence indicated that over the course of 26 days, approximately 800 minutes of internet browsing appeared to be non-work related.

Result: A settlement agreement was approved on March 24, 2017 imposing a civil penalty of $2,000 with $1,000 suspended.

Violation: A Community Corrections Officer with the Department of Corrections may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act when they used state resources for their personal benefit by visiting non-work-related websites including sites in which they would be compensated for providing product feedback.

Result: An agreed settlement was approved on November 18, 2016 imposing a civil penalty of $2,500 with $1,000 suspended.

Violation: A former Department of Corrections employee was found to have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by using state resources (agency time, computer and email) during work hours to work on their college coursework and to manage their vacation rental property.

Result: A final order was entered on April 29th, 2016 imposing a civil penalty of $3,000.

Violation: An employee of the Department of Corrections may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act by using state resources for their personal benefit and conducting activities incompatible with their official duties when they purchased a vehicle from one of their subordinates.

Result: Settlement approved on November 14, 2014 for a civil penalty of $2,500 with $1,500 suspended.

Violation: An employee of the Department of Corrections may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act when they used state resources for personal benefit. Evidence indicated that over a 20-day work period they used the state's computer system for over 30 hours of non-work-related business.

Result: Settlement approved on September 13, 2013 for a civil penalty of $3,000 with $1,000 suspended.

Violation: An employee with the Department of Corrections was found to have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act when they used state resources to send an email from work to members of the Spokane City Council and the West Central Neighborhood Council in support of local business owners.

Result: Settlement approved on January 11, 2013 for a civil penalty of $100 and a Letter of Instruction.

Violation: An employee with the Department of Corrections was found to have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act when they used state resources to promote and support an outside non-profit organization. They were also found to have engaged in outside employment which involved the use of state resources for their private benefit or gain.

Result: A Final Order was issued on February 25, 2013 for a civil penalty of $17,000 with $3,600 suspended.

Violation: A Department of Corrections employee may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act when they used state resources for personal benefit.

Result: Settlement approved on May 13, 2011 for a Civil penalty of $1,500.

Violation: A Department of Corrections employee may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act when they used their state computer, e-mail, and Internet to access non-work-related sites on a daily basis.

Result: Settlement approved on September 10, 2004 for a Civil penalty in the amount of $750 with $250 suspended.

Violation: A Department of Corrections Field Administrator may have violated the Ethics in Public Service Act when they authorized the parking of agency employees' private vehicles in parking spaced leased by the agency for their agency owned vehicles.

Result: Settlement approved on May 9, 2003. Board issued a Letter of Instruction.