Accountability

Irresponsible Hirings

A parole hearing is one type of public failure. A hiring decision is another. This section documents cases — drawn from public records, court filings, and verified news reporting — in which a public-sector hire was made despite clearly documented prior conduct that should have disqualified the candidate.

The categories most often represented here are positions that involve direct contact with children, vulnerable adults, or the public's safety: police officers, school employees, child welfare workers, coaches, and licensed care providers. The common thread is that the disqualifying information was already in the public record at the time the hire was made — and the agency hired anyway.

What Each Entry Contains

  • Name of the hiring agency
  • Position filled
  • Date of hire
  • The public record of prior conduct that was available at the time of hire
  • Source citations: court records, news reporting, FOIA responses
  • Outcome (where applicable): whether the individual was later terminated, charged, or remained in the role

Inclusion Standard

An entry is only published if all three of the following conditions are met:

  1. It appears in primary public records — court documents, agency personnel records released under FOIA, or official board minutes.
  2. It has been verified through the standard intake form used for every entry on this site.
  3. At least two independent sources confirm the timeline.

Entries that fail any of these conditions are returned to the submitter for revision or rejected. We do not publish anonymous tips, single-source claims, or material drawn solely from social media.

What this section is not. This section is not a list of accusations. Every entry is built from records that already exist, in places where the public has the right to read them. We do not draw conclusions about guilt or innocence beyond what the cited records establish. Nothing here should be read as a call for action against any private individual — only as a record of decisions made by public agencies with public money.

Documented Hirings

Entries are added as they are verified against primary sources. Submissions for review can be sent through the content submission form.

Why Document Hirings at All

Every hire described in this section had a hiring manager. That hiring manager either reviewed the public record and proceeded, or failed to review it. Both are accountability questions. When a public agency hires a candidate whose disqualifying record is sitting on the first page of a court database, that decision is itself a public matter — it tells the community something about the agency's standards and about the people responsible for setting them.

Documenting these decisions creates a record. A record creates the possibility of policy change. The aim is not to punish the individual hired — that's a question for the courts and the agency — but to make visible the patterns that produced the hire in the first place.