BER 88-6 City Engineer Superior Suppression of State Reporting
S · State
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/139#BER_88-6_City_Engineer_Superior_Suppression_of_State_Reporting
Properties
Instance of
SuperiorAuthoritySuppressionofRegulatoryReportingObligationState
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#SuperiorAuthoritySuppressionofRegulatoryReportingObligationState
Active period
From the city administrator's warning through the engineer's continued inaction on external reporting
Affected parties
City administrator
City council members
City engineer/director of public works
Public affected by water pollution
State water pollution control authorities
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Subject
City engineer/director of public works warned by city administrator to report overflow capacity violations only internally, suppressing legally required state water pollution control authority notification
Terminated by
Would have terminated upon engineer reporting to state authorities or remediation of the violation
Triggering event
City administrator's explicit warning to the engineer to report the overflow capacity problem only to him, despite the legal obligation to report to state water pollution control authorities
Urgency level
high
Source Evidence
Source text
being warned by the city administrator to report the problem only to him
Text references
The Board said that the engineer's inaction permitted a serious violation of the law to continue and made the engineer an 'accessory' to the actions of the city administrator
being warned by the city administrator to report the problem only to him
the engineer knew, or should have known, that 'proper authorities' were not the city officials, but more probably, state officials
the engineer was aware of a pattern of ongoing disregard for the law by her immediate supervisor, as well as by members of the city council
TTL
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case139:BER_88-6_City_Engineer_Superior_Suppression_of_State_Reporting a proeth:SuperiorAuthoritySuppressionofRegulatoryReportingObligationState,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "BER 88-6 City Engineer Superior Suppression of State Reporting" ;
proeth:activeperiod "From the city administrator's warning through the engineer's continued inaction on external reporting" ;
proeth:affectedparties "City administrator",
"City council members",
"City engineer/director of public works",
"Public affected by water pollution",
"State water pollution control authorities" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "State" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "139" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "1" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T10:39:56.265940+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "139" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T10:39:56.265940+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:sourcetext "being warned by the city administrator to report the problem only to him" ;
proeth:stateclass "Superior Authority Suppression of Regulatory Reporting Obligation State" ;
proeth:subject "City engineer/director of public works warned by city administrator to report overflow capacity violations only internally, suppressing legally required state water pollution control authority notification" ;
proeth:terminatedby "Would have terminated upon engineer reporting to state authorities or remediation of the violation" ;
proeth:textreferences "The Board said that the engineer's inaction permitted a serious violation of the law to continue and made the engineer an 'accessory' to the actions of the city administrator",
"being warned by the city administrator to report the problem only to him",
"the engineer knew, or should have known, that 'proper authorities' were not the city officials, but more probably, state officials",
"the engineer was aware of a pattern of ongoing disregard for the law by her immediate supervisor, as well as by members of the city council" ;
proeth:triggeringevent "City administrator's explicit warning to the engineer to report the overflow capacity problem only to him, despite the legal obligation to report to state water pollution control authorities" ;
proeth:urgencylevel "high" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 139 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T11:01:04.756238"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 139 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
139
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T10:39:56.265940+00:00
First case
139
Generated
2026-02-28T10:39:56.265940+00:00
Attributed to
Case 139 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T11:01:04.756238
Generated by
ProEthica Case 139 Extraction