Engineer Intern D Indirect Policy Violating Directive Escalation Shadyvale
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/58#Engineer_Intern_D_Indirect_Policy_Violating_Directive_Escalation_Shadyvale
Properties
Instance of
IndirectPolicy-ViolatingDirectiveEscalationObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#IndirectPolicy-ViolatingDirectiveEscalationObligation
Case context
Engineer Intern D received an indirectly communicated directive from Engineer W to revise a DOT policy-compliant design to incorporate the old Shadyvale water main — a revision that would divert $700,000 of DOT funds in violation of explicit agency policy.
Compliance status
unclear
Confidence
0.88
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer Intern D
Obligation statement
Engineer Intern D was obligated, upon receiving Engineer W's indirect directive to revise the policy-compliant design in a manner that would violate DOT cost-allocation policy, to escalate the directive and the policy conflict to appropriate supervisory, legal, or administrative authorities within the DOT before taking any action on the directive, so that the policy violation could be surfaced through proper institutional channels.
Temporal scope
Upon receiving and recognizing the policy-violating nature of Engineer W's indirect directive
Relationships
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer Intern D's adherence to DOT policy (avoiding the old water main) is in accord with the Canon 3 requirements of objectivity and truthfulness.
Text references
Engineer Intern D's adherence to DOT policy (avoiding the old water main) is in accord with the Canon 3 requirements of objectivity and truthfulness.
If Engineer Intern D decides to cooperate with Engineer W, it is likely that no one else would ever know that $700,000 of DOT money had been diverted for the benefit of Shadyvale.
TTL
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case58:Engineer_Intern_D_Indirect_Policy_Violating_Directive_Escalation_Shadyvale a proeth:IndirectPolicy-ViolatingDirectiveEscalationObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer Intern D Indirect Policy Violating Directive Escalation Shadyvale" ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/58#DOT_Policy_Circumvention_Design_Manipulation_—_Engineer_W_to_Engineer_Intern_D> ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer Intern D received an indirectly communicated directive from Engineer W to revise a DOT policy-compliant design to incorporate the old Shadyvale water main — a revision that would divert $700,000 of DOT funds in violation of explicit agency policy." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unclear" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case58:Intern_Epistemic_Humility_Escalation_Obligation_Invoked_By_Engineer_Intern_D_Policy_Conflict ;
proeth:discoveredincase "58" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-25T21:58:16.305408+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "58" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-25T21:58:16.305408+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer Intern D" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Indirect Policy-Violating Directive Escalation Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer Intern D was obligated, upon receiving Engineer W's indirect directive to revise the policy-compliant design in a manner that would violate DOT cost-allocation policy, to escalate the directive and the policy conflict to appropriate supervisory, legal, or administrative authorities within the DOT before taking any action on the directive, so that the policy violation could be surfaced through proper institutional channels." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer Intern D's adherence to DOT policy (avoiding the old water main) is in accord with the Canon 3 requirements of objectivity and truthfulness." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Upon receiving and recognizing the policy-violating nature of Engineer W's indirect directive" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer Intern D's adherence to DOT policy (avoiding the old water main) is in accord with the Canon 3 requirements of objectivity and truthfulness.",
"If Engineer Intern D decides to cooperate with Engineer W, it is likely that no one else would ever know that $700,000 of DOT money had been diverted for the benefit of Shadyvale." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 58 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-25T22:07:12.213235"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 58 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
58
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-25T21:58:16.305408+00:00
First case
58
Generated
2026-02-25T21:58:16.305408+00:00
Attributed to
Case 58 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-25T22:07:12.213235
Generated by
ProEthica Case 58 Extraction