The City of Valparaiso placed embattled Valparaiso Fire Chief David Lanier on administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation into the potentially unlawful termination of a whistleblower in his department.
Earlier this year, immediately after becoming Valparaiso’s second fire chief since they restarted their fire department in April, Lanier was accused by multiple people of using a slur for Black people toward members of the department or in their presence. He was suspended by the Valparaiso City Commission for his alleged comments, but maintained his innocence.
You can read about those accusations in their entirety here.
The Whistleblower, Firefighter David Rodriguez, told Mid Bay News last week that the City had fired him for having too many write-ups.
He claimed he is the only person in the department to have received a write-up—and that they all came after he reported the Chief and accused him of using the slur. Records show that the only two members of the department to receive Employee Warning Reports, or write-ups, are Rodriguez and Fire Chief Lanier. One of Rodriguez’s write-ups appears to have come from City Commissioner in Charge of the Fire...
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