{"id":16439,"date":"2017-01-13T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=16439"},"modified":"2017-01-12T11:21:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T17:21:19","slug":"city-weekly-bad-day-at-red-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/13\/city-weekly-bad-day-at-red-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"(City Weekly) Bad Day at Red Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EXCERPT: In the local press and social media, there had been ongoing controversies over employee departures and city manager Rebecca Davidson&#8217;s administration, while behind-the-scenes multiple investigations into the police department over the prior 18 months had led to five officers\u2014a third of the force\u2014being put on paid administrative leave; three of them subsequently resigning. Davidson herself was put on administrative leave on Sept. 13 and terminated Sept. <span class=\"text_exposed_show\">30 \u201cwithout cause,\u201d and longtime police chief Mike Navarre abruptly resigned, Sept. 20, clearing out his office overnight.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Davidson, however, was not leaving without a fight. On Dec. 13, 2016 she sent a letter to Moab&#8217;s mayor Dave Sakrison notifying him and the city that she was suing them for close to $2 million for firing her because, she alleged, she had \u201craised her concerns to the Mayor and FBI about wrongful conduct by members of the City&#8217;s Police Department,\u201d her attorney Gregory W. Stevens wrote. Conduct she complained about included, \u201clying while testifying in court; threats against members of the public; drinking alcohol with minors; harassment of witnesses; domestic violence; and issues concerning evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityweekly.net\/TheDailyFeed\/archives\/2017\/01\/11\/bad-day-at-red-rock\">Click Here to Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityweekly.net\/TheDailyFeed\/archives\/2017\/01\/11\/bad-day-at-red-rock\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/moabcityhall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCERPT: In the local press and social media, there had been ongoing controversies over employee departures and city manager Rebecca Davidson&#8217;s administration, while behind-the-scenes multiple investigations into the police department over the prior 18 months had led to five officers\u2014a third of the force\u2014being put on paid administrative leave; three of them subsequently resigning. Davidson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16440,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16439\/revisions\/16440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}