Palin Attempts To Provide Herself & Staff With COVER Re: Troopergate

[kpete]

Palin Claims Right to See All State Files

By Jason Leopold
September 14, 2008

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is maneuvering to stop an investigation into an alleged abuse of power, in part, by claiming that she has an unlimited right to pry into the personnel records of all state employees, including the state trooper who divorced her sister.

“The governor or her staff may, in the course and scope of their official duties, review a confidential personnel file to ensure, for example, that an employee is adequately supervised, appropriately evaluated, and appropriately disciplined. In appropriate cases, the governor may also direct the termination of a state employee.”

This legal analysis appears to be an attempt to provide Palin and her staffers with legal cover for allegedly disseminating confidential information about Wooten in a campaign to get him fired.

However, John Cyr, executive director of the Public Safety Employees Association which represents Alaska State Troopers, disputes the notion of that Palin can have unlimited access to all state employee records.

“It is illegal to access employee medical and personnel files unless it’s on a ‘need to know basis,’” Cyr said about Palin's assertion of this unlimited authority. “This is outrageous.”

more at:
http://consortiumnews.com/2008/091308c.html

[Barack_America]

1. Not going to work.

You mean to say that not a single state trooper did anything worse? Not a single DUI, pot bust, excessive force etc. charge amongst all the state troopers? Of course there was. So why was Wooten singled out other than his family connections.

Total bullshit. (even if they do get away saying they had the right to look at these files, which I hope they don't)

[Howardx]

2. the husband is the weak link

HE doesnt have an unlimited right to look at anything.