Engineer A Employer-Prohibited City Council Safety Escalation
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/92#Engineer_A_Employer-Prohibited_City_Council_Safety_Escalation
Properties
Instance of
Employer-ProhibitedCityCouncilSafetyEscalationPermissibilityObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Employer-ProhibitedCityCouncilSafetyEscalationPermissibilityObligation
Case context
Administrator C ordered Engineer A to discuss the problem only with him and warned her job was in danger if she disobeyed; Engineer A nonetheless privately brought the problem to city council members and other city officials.
Compliance status
met
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A (City Engineer/Director of Public Works)
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to escalate the sanitary system overflow risk to city council members despite Administrator C's explicit prohibition and termination threat, because the paramount duty to public safety superseded the employer's suppression directive.
Temporal scope
After Administrator C's prohibition order and before the canning/rainy season crisis
Relationships
competesWith
Engineer A Competing Loyalty Public Safety Primacy Administrat or C Faithful Agent Tension
defeasibleUnder
Administrat or C Suppression of Regulatory Reporting, Engineer A Employment Pressure and Termination Thre at
Source Evidence
Source text
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.
Text references
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.
Engineer A again privately brings the problem up to other city officials.
Engineer A has also discussed the problem privately with certain members of the city council without the permission of City Administrator C.
TTL
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case92:Engineer_A_Employer-Prohibited_City_Council_Safety_Escalation a proeth:Employer-ProhibitedCityCouncilSafetyEscalationPermissibilityObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Employer-Prohibited City Council Safety Escalation" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case92:Engineer_A_Competing_Loyalty_Public_Safety_Primacy_Administrator_C_Faithful_Agent_Tension ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case92:Administrator_C_Suppression_of_Regulatory_Reporting,
case92:Engineer_A_Employment_Pressure_and_Termination_Threat ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case92:Engineer_A_Competing_Loyalty_Public_Safety_Primacy_Administrator_C_Faithful_Agent_Tension ;
proeth:casecontext "Administrator C ordered Engineer A to discuss the problem only with him and warned her job was in danger if she disobeyed; Engineer A nonetheless privately brought the problem to city council members and other city officials." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "met" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case92:Engineer_Pressure_Resistance_Invoked_by_Engineer_A_Against_Administrator_C_Termination_Threat,
case92:Public_Welfare_Paramount_Invoked_by_Engineer_A_Sanitary_System_Overflow ;
proeth:discoveredincase "92" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T13:39:18.625356+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "92" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T13:39:18.625356+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A (City Engineer/Director of Public Works)" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Employer-Prohibited City Council Safety Escalation Permissibility Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to escalate the sanitary system overflow risk to city council members despite Administrator C's explicit prohibition and termination threat, because the paramount duty to public safety superseded the employer's suppression directive." ;
proeth:sourcetext "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." ;
proeth:temporalscope "After Administrator C's prohibition order and before the canning/rainy season crisis" ;
proeth:textreferences "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.",
"Engineer A again privately brings the problem up to other city officials.",
"Engineer A has also discussed the problem privately with certain members of the city council without the permission of City Administrator C." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 92 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T14:00:16.246590"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 92 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
92
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-01T13:39:18.625356+00:00
First case
92
Generated
2026-03-01T13:39:18.625356+00:00
Attributed to
Case 92 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T14:00:16.246590
Generated by
ProEthica Case 92 Extraction