City Administrator C Safety-Suppressing Supervisor
R · Role
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/92#City_Administrator_C_Safety-Suppressing_Supervisor
Definition
Non-engineer municipal administrator who is Engineer A's direct supervisor; dismisses reported sanitary system capacity warnings, orders Engineer A to restrict communications, reassigns engineering responsible charge to unlicensed Technician B, places Engineer A on probation, and threatens termination to suppress safety escalation.
Properties
Instance of
Safety-SuppressingNon-EngineerMunicipalAdministrator
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Safety-SuppressingNon-EngineerMunicipalAdministrator
Attributes
| license | None (non-engineer) |
| position | City Administrator |
| authority | Direct supervisor of City Engineer; controls chain of command for public works |
Confidence
0.91
Importance
high
Relationships
| type | reassigned_responsibility_to |
| target | Technician B |
| type | supervises |
| target | Engineer A |
| type | suppresses_reporting_of |
| target | Engineer A |
Role category
employer_relationship
Relationships
adheresToPrinciple
Non-Engineer Safety Decision Authority Limitation Invoked Against Administrat or C, Non-Subordination of Public Safety Obligation to Political or Budgetary Bargaining Invoked Against Administrat or C Deferral, Unlicensed Responsible Charge Assignment Prohibition Violated by Administrat or C
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A is directly responsible to City Administrator C
Text references
City Administrator C has told Engineer A that 'we will face the problem when it comes'
City Administrator C orders Engineer A to discuss the problems only with him and warns her that her job is in danger if she disobeys
City Administrator C removes Engineer A from responsibility of the entire sanitary system
Engineer A is directly responsible to City Administrator C
Engineer A is placed on probation and ordered not to discuss this matter further
TTL
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case92:City_Administrator_C_Safety-Suppressing_Supervisor a proeth:Safety-SuppressingNon-EngineerMunicipalAdministrator,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "City Administrator C Safety-Suppressing Supervisor" ;
proeth-core:adheresToPrinciple case92:Non-Engineer_Safety_Decision_Authority_Limitation_Invoked_Against_Administrator_C,
case92:Non-Subordination_of_Public_Safety_Obligation_to_Political_or_Budgetary_Bargaining_Invoked_Against_Administrator_C_Deferral,
case92:Unlicensed_Responsible_Charge_Assignment_Prohibition_Violated_by_Administrator_C ;
proeth-core:hasObligation case92:Administrator_C_Unlicensed_Responsible_Charge_Assignment_Prohibition_Violation ;
proeth:attributes "{'license': 'None (non-engineer)', 'position': 'City Administrator', 'authority': 'Direct supervisor of City Engineer; controls chain of command for public works'}" ;
proeth:caseinvolvement "Non-engineer municipal administrator who is Engineer A's direct supervisor; dismisses reported sanitary system capacity warnings, orders Engineer A to restrict communications, reassigns engineering responsible charge to unlicensed Technician B, places Engineer A on probation, and threatens termination to suppress safety escalation." ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Role" ;
proeth:confidence "0.91" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "92" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "1" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T13:31:45.962736+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "92" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T13:31:45.962736+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:relationships "{'type': 'reassigned_responsibility_to', 'target': 'Technician B'}",
"{'type': 'supervises', 'target': 'Engineer A'}",
"{'type': 'suppresses_reporting_of', 'target': 'Engineer A'}" ;
proeth:rolecategory "employer_relationship" ;
proeth:roleclass "Safety-Suppressing Non-Engineer Municipal Administrator" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A is directly responsible to City Administrator C" ;
proeth:textreferences "City Administrator C has told Engineer A that 'we will face the problem when it comes'",
"City Administrator C orders Engineer A to discuss the problems only with him and warns her that her job is in danger if she disobeys",
"City Administrator C removes Engineer A from responsibility of the entire sanitary system",
"Engineer A is directly responsible to City Administrator C",
"Engineer A is placed on probation and ordered not to discuss this matter further" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 92 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T14:00:16.257383"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 92 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
92
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-01T13:31:45.962736+00:00
First case
92
Generated
2026-03-01T13:31:45.962736+00:00
Attributed to
Case 92 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T14:00:16.257383
Generated by
ProEthica Case 92 Extraction