State Licensing Board Complaint Recipient
R · Role
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/116#State_Licensing_Board_Complaint_Recipient
Definition
The state engineering licensure board that receives complaints about professional conduct violations; serves as the appropriate public authority to which engineers must report ethical violations by other engineers; the Board's rules of professional conduct establish the standards against which Engineer B's conduct is evaluated.
Properties
Instance of
StateRegulatoryNotificationAuthority
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#StateRegulatoryNotificationAuthority
Attributes
| authority_type | State engineering licensure board |
| function | Receives and investigates professional conduct complaints |
| jurisdiction | State-level engineering licensure |
Confidence
0.88
Importance
medium
Relationships
| type | receives_complaint_from |
| target | Anonymous Professional Conduct Complaint Filer Engineer |
| type | subject_of_complaint |
| target | Licensee Subject to Professional Conduct Complaint |
Role category
public_responsibility
Source Evidence
Source text
licensed professional engineers have a fundamental obligation to report instances of unprofessional conduct to the appropriate public authorities
Text references
Engineer A clearly had a fundamental ethical obligation to cooperate with the state board
it makes good policy sense for an engineer to step forward and publicly raise an ethical concern with the state board
licensed professional engineers have a fundamental obligation to report instances of unprofessional conduct to the appropriate public authorities
the filing of a legitimate anonymous complaint
TTL
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case116:State_Licensing_Board_Complaint_Recipient a proeth:StateRegulatoryNotificationAuthority,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "State Licensing Board Complaint Recipient" ;
proeth-core:adheresToPrinciple case116:Accused_Engineer_Procedural_Fairness_Right_Acknowledged_for_Engineer_B,
case116:Professional_Accountability_Applied_to_Engineer_Bs_Obligation_to_Respond ;
proeth:attributes "{'authority_type': 'State engineering licensure board', 'function': 'Receives and investigates professional conduct complaints', 'jurisdiction': 'State-level engineering licensure'}" ;
proeth:caseinvolvement "The state engineering licensure board that receives complaints about professional conduct violations; serves as the appropriate public authority to which engineers must report ethical violations by other engineers; the Board's rules of professional conduct establish the standards against which Engineer B's conduct is evaluated." ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Role" ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "116" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "1" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T23:36:53.319365+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "116" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T23:36:53.319365+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "medium" ;
proeth:relationships "{'type': 'receives_complaint_from', 'target': 'Anonymous Professional Conduct Complaint Filer Engineer'}",
"{'type': 'subject_of_complaint', 'target': 'Licensee Subject to Professional Conduct Complaint'}" ;
proeth:rolecategory "public_responsibility" ;
proeth:roleclass "State Regulatory Notification Authority" ;
proeth:sourcetext "licensed professional engineers have a fundamental obligation to report instances of unprofessional conduct to the appropriate public authorities" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A clearly had a fundamental ethical obligation to cooperate with the state board",
"it makes good policy sense for an engineer to step forward and publicly raise an ethical concern with the state board",
"licensed professional engineers have a fundamental obligation to report instances of unprofessional conduct to the appropriate public authorities",
"the filing of a legitimate anonymous complaint" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 116 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T23:53:17.769796"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 116 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
116
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T23:36:53.319365+00:00
First case
116
Generated
2026-02-28T23:36:53.319365+00:00
Attributed to
Case 116 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T23:53:17.769796
Generated by
ProEthica Case 116 Extraction