Engineer A Post-Engagement Disclosure Duty
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/86#Engineer_A_Post-Engagement_Disclosure_Duty
Definition
Engineer A's professional obligations to the public do not terminate upon completion of the wetland delineation engagement. The discovery of the unpermitted fill months after service completion raises the question of whether those obligations require reporting to regulatory authorities despite the absence of an active client relationship.
Properties
Instance of
Post-EngagementClientConductDisclosurePrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Post-EngagementClientConductDisclosurePrinciple
Applied to
Client Wetland Fill Violator
unpermitted fill discovered months after engagement conclusion
Balancing with
Faithful Agent Duty Principle
Whistleblower Conscience Principle
Concrete expression
Engineer A's professional obligations to the public do not terminate upon completion of the wetland delineation engagement. The discovery of the unpermitted fill months after service completion raises the question of whether those obligations require reporting to regulatory authorities despite the absence of an active client relationship.
Confidence
0.8
Interpretation
The temporal gap between the conclusion of services and the discovery of the violation does not extinguish the engineer's professional responsibility. The violation is substantial, ongoing, and involves resources protected by federal and state law, which are precisely the conditions under which post-engagement disclosure obligations arise.
Tension resolution
Because the violation is substantial and ongoing rather than a completed past act, and because it involves federally and state-protected resources rather than purely private interests, the post-engagement disclosure obligation is more likely to be characterized as a duty than as a matter of personal conscience.
Match Confidence
0.0
Matches Existing
false
Synthesis Literal
appliedTo
balancingWith
concreteExpression
confidence
interpretation
principleClass
tensionResolution
textReferences
Relationships
invokedBy
Agent Engineer A
Source Evidence
Text references
A few months after Engineer A completes the services, he drives by his client's property and notices that the client has installed a substantial amount of fill material
The installation of the fill material is a substantial violation of the federal and state laws and regulations
Source text
A few months after Engineer A completes the services, he drives by his client's property and notices that the client has installed a substantial amount of fill material on more than 1/2 an acre across a portion of the wetlands without any permits, variances, or permissions.
TTL
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case86:Engineer_A_Post-Engagement_Disclosure_Duty a proeth:Post-EngagementClientConductDisclosurePrinciple,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Post-Engagement Disclosure Duty" ;
proeth-core:invokedBy case86:Agent_Engineer_A ;
proeth:appliedTo "Client Wetland Fill Violator",
"unpermitted fill discovered months after engagement conclusion" ;
proeth:balancingWith "Faithful Agent Duty Principle",
"Whistleblower Conscience Principle" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteExpression "Engineer A's professional obligations to the public do not terminate upon completion of the wetland delineation engagement. The discovery of the unpermitted fill months after service completion raises the question of whether those obligations require reporting to regulatory authorities despite the absence of an active client relationship." ;
proeth:confidence "0.8" ;
proeth:interpretation "The temporal gap between the conclusion of services and the discovery of the violation does not extinguish the engineer's professional responsibility. The violation is substantial, ongoing, and involves resources protected by federal and state law, which are precisely the conditions under which post-engagement disclosure obligations arise." ;
proeth:invokedBy "Engineer A Public Responsibility" ;
proeth:principleClass "Post-Engagement Client Conduct Disclosure Principle" ;
proeth:tensionResolution "Because the violation is substantial and ongoing rather than a completed past act, and because it involves federally and state-protected resources rather than purely private interests, the post-engagement disclosure obligation is more likely to be characterized as a duty than as a matter of personal conscience." ;
proeth:textReferences "A few months after Engineer A completes the services, he drives by his client's property and notices that the client has installed a substantial amount of fill material",
"The installation of the fill material is a substantial violation of the federal and state laws and regulations" ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 86 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 2 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "facts" ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-04T17:28:58.159954+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 86 ;
proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.0 ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting false ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "A few months after Engineer A completes the services, he drives by his client's property and notices that the client has installed a substantial amount of fill material on more than 1/2 an acre across a portion of the wetlands without any permits, variances, or permissions." ;
proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "appliedTo",
"balancingWith",
"concreteExpression",
"confidence",
"interpretation",
"principleClass",
"tensionResolution",
"textReferences" ;
rdfs:comment "Engineer A's professional obligations to the public do not terminate upon completion of the wetland delineation engagement. The discovery of the unpermitted fill months after service completion raises the question of whether those obligations require reporting to regulatory authorities despite the absence of an active client relationship." ;
skos:definition "Engineer A's professional obligations to the public do not terminate upon completion of the wetland delineation engagement. The discovery of the unpermitted fill months after service completion raises the question of whether those obligations require reporting to regulatory authorities despite the absence of an active client relationship." ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-04T17:28:58.159954+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasAttributedTo "Case 86 Extraction",
"claude-sonnet-4-6" ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 86 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
86
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-06-04T17:28:58.159954+00:00
First case
86
Generated
2026-06-04T17:28:58.159954+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 86 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']
Generated by
ProEthica Case 86 Extraction