Is CalFire’s crackdown going too far?
By Adam Ashton, Sacramento Bee
Firefighters can’t say they weren’t warned.
A new professional standards program at CalFire is giving the department a mechanism to hand down discipline in a consistent manner across the state for the first time in its history.
It’s racking up pay reductions, suspensions and dismissals at a rate that rivals scandal-plagued 2014 – the year when an instructor at its fire academy murdered his mistress and brought intense scrutiny on the department.
In my humble opinion, it would be almost impossible to “go too far” with expecting more from public workers of almost any group: Federal, State, County or City.