Engineer A Objective Complete Reporting Public Authority Obligation Instance
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/83#Engineer_A_Objective_Complete_Reporting_Public_Authority_Obligation_Instance
Properties
Instance of
ObjectiveandCompleteReportingObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ObjectiveandCompleteReportingObligation
Case context
Engineer A submitted a written report to a public authority considering a developer's residential condominium proposal adjacent to a protected wetlands area. The report omitted the firm biologist's finding that the project could threaten a bird species classified as 'threatened' by federal and state regulators, despite Engineer A having received this finding and verbally mentioned it to the developer client.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.95
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A (principal, environmental engineering firm)
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to be objective and truthful in the written report submitted to the public authority and to include all relevant and pertinent information — including the firm biologist's threatened species finding — in that report, rather than omitting material environmental risk information that was adverse to the developer client's interests.
Temporal scope
At the time of preparing and submitting the written report to the public authority
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A does not include the information in a written report that will be submitted to a public authority that is considering the developer's proposal
Text references
Engineer A does not include the information in a written report that will be submitted to a public authority that is considering the developer's proposal
one of the engineering firm's biologists reports to Engineer A that in his opinion, the condominium project could threaten a bird species that inhabits the adjacent protected wetlands area
TTL
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case83:Engineer_A_Objective_Complete_Reporting_Public_Authority_Obligation_Instance a proeth:ObjectiveandCompleteReportingObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Objective Complete Reporting Public Authority Obligation Instance" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case83:Engineer_A_Client_Verbal_Mention_Non-Substitution_Obligation_Instance,
case83:Engineer_A_Faithful_Agent_Within_Ethical_Limits_Developer_Client_Obligation_Instance ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case83:Undisclosed_Threatened_Species_Risk_in_Public_Authority_Report ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case83:Engineer_A_Client_Verbal_Mention_Non-Substitution_Obligation_Instance ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A submitted a written report to a public authority considering a developer's residential condominium proposal adjacent to a protected wetlands area. The report omitted the firm biologist's finding that the project could threaten a bird species classified as 'threatened' by federal and state regulators, despite Engineer A having received this finding and verbally mentioned it to the developer client." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.95" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/83#Objective_Completeness_Obligation_Under_NSPE_Code_Section_II.3.a.>,
case83:Objective_Completeness_in_Public_Authority_Reports_Violated_by_Engineer_A ;
proeth:discoveredincase "83" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-27T18:59:29.260448+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "83" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-27T18:59:29.260448+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A (principal, environmental engineering firm)" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Objective and Complete Reporting Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to be objective and truthful in the written report submitted to the public authority and to include all relevant and pertinent information — including the firm biologist's threatened species finding — in that report, rather than omitting material environmental risk information that was adverse to the developer client's interests." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A does not include the information in a written report that will be submitted to a public authority that is considering the developer's proposal" ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the time of preparing and submitting the written report to the public authority" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A does not include the information in a written report that will be submitted to a public authority that is considering the developer's proposal",
"one of the engineering firm's biologists reports to Engineer A that in his opinion, the condominium project could threaten a bird species that inhabits the adjacent protected wetlands area" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 83 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-27T19:15:08.298822"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 83 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
83
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-27T18:59:29.260448+00:00
First case
83
Generated
2026-02-27T18:59:29.260448+00:00
Attributed to
Case 83 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-27T19:15:08.298822
Generated by
ProEthica Case 83 Extraction