Engineer A Employer-Prohibited City Council Safety Escalation Permissibility
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/92#Engineer_A_Employer-Prohibited_City_Council_Safety_Escalation_Permissibility
Properties
Instance of
Employer-ProhibitedCityCouncilSafetyEscalationPermissibilityObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Employer-ProhibitedCityCouncilSafetyEscalationPermissibilityObligation
Case context
Administrator C ordered Engineer A not to discuss the sanitary system overflow risk with city council members under threat of termination. Engineer A nonetheless privately escalated to certain council members, which the Board found was appropriate — though ultimately insufficient because city officials were not the 'proper authorities.'
Compliance status
partial
Confidence
0.87
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A (City Engineer/Director of Public Works)
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to recognize that Administrator C's order not to discuss the sanitary system safety matter with city council members — under threat of termination — was ethically impermissible, and that escalating the safety concern to elected city council members was not only permissible but obligatory.
Temporal scope
Upon Administrator C's order prohibiting communication with city council about the safety concern
Relationships
Source Evidence
Source text
Under the facts it appears that Engineer A has fulfilled this specific aspect of her obligation by reporting her concerns to City Administrator C and thereafter to certain members of the city council.
Text references
However, under the facts of this case, we believe Engineer A had an ethical obligation under the Code to go considerably farther.
Under the facts it appears that Engineer A has fulfilled this specific aspect of her obligation by reporting her concerns to City Administrator C and thereafter to certain members of the city council.
TTL
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owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Employer-Prohibited City Council Safety Escalation Permissibility" ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case92:Administrator_C_Suppression_of_Regulatory_Reporting,
case92:Engineer_A_Unauthorized_Council_Escalation ;
proeth:casecontext "Administrator C ordered Engineer A not to discuss the sanitary system overflow risk with city council members under threat of termination. Engineer A nonetheless privately escalated to certain council members, which the Board found was appropriate — though ultimately insufficient because city officials were not the 'proper authorities.'" ;
proeth:compliancestatus "partial" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.87" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case92:Faithful_Agent_Obligation_Within_Ethical_Limits_Tension_with_Administrator_C_Orders ;
proeth:discoveredincase "92" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T13:49:27.059210+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "92" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T13:49:27.059210+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 recognize that Administrator C's order not to discuss the sanitary system safety matter with city council members — under threat of termination — was ethically impermissible, and that escalating the safety concern to elected city council members was not only permissible but obligatory." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Under the facts it appears that Engineer A has fulfilled this specific aspect of her obligation by reporting her concerns to City Administrator C and thereafter to certain members of the city council." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Upon Administrator C's order prohibiting communication with city council about the safety concern" ;
proeth:textreferences "However, under the facts of this case, we believe Engineer A had an ethical obligation under the Code to go considerably farther.",
"Under the facts it appears that Engineer A has fulfilled this specific aspect of her obligation by reporting her concerns to City Administrator C and thereafter to certain members of the city council." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 92 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T14:00:16.266936"^^xsd:dateTime ;
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Extraction details
Discovered in case
92
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T13:49:27.059210+00:00
First case
92
Generated
2026-03-01T13:49:27.059210+00:00
Attributed to
Case 92 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T14:00:16.266936
Generated by
ProEthica Case 92 Extraction