Internal-to-External Escalation Trigger Applied to Engineer A Reporting Timeline

@prefix case92: <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/92#> . @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> . @prefix proeth: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#> . @prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> . @prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . @prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> . case92:Internal-to-External_Escalation_Trigger_Applied_to_Engineer_A_Reporting_Timeline a proeth:Internal-to-ExternalEscalationTriggerUponDemonstratedPatternofDisregard, owl:NamedIndividual ; rdfs:label "Internal-to-External Escalation Trigger Applied to Engineer A Reporting Timeline" ; proeth:appliedto "Engineer A's internal escalation to City Administrator C and city council", "Transition point to mandatory external reporting to state water pollution control authority" ; proeth:balancingwith "Graduated Internal Escalation Before External Reporting Obligation", "Premature External Escalation Reputational Harm Avoidance Principle" ; proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ; proeth:concreteexpression "The Board articulates the specific threshold at which Engineer A's obligation to report to state authorities was triggered: when she was reasonably certain that no action would be taken by City Administrator C or city council members, and when in her professional judgment a probable danger to public safety and health existed — both conditions being necessary." ; proeth:confidence "0.9" ; proeth:discoveredincase "92" ; proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ; proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ; proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T13:46:19.188677+00:00" ; proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "92" ; proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T13:46:19.188677+00:00" ; proeth:importance "high" ; proeth:interpretation "The dual-condition threshold (reasonable certainty of no internal action + probable danger in professional judgment) defines the precise moment at which continued internal advocacy becomes ethically insufficient and external reporting becomes mandatory." ; proeth:invokedby "NSPE Board of Ethical Review" ; proeth:principleclass "Internal-to-External Escalation Trigger Upon Demonstrated Pattern of Disregard" ; proeth:sourcetext "we would suggest that such reporting should have occurred at such time as Engineer A was reasonably certain that no action would be taken concerning her recommendations either by City Administrator C or the members of the city council and, that in her professional judgment, a probable danger to the public safety and health then existed." ; proeth:tensionresolution "The dual-condition threshold balances the value of internal resolution against the imperative of external protection; once both conditions are met, the balance tips decisively toward mandatory external reporting." ; proeth:textreferences "After several attempts to modify the views of her superiors, it is our view that Engineer A knew or should have known that the 'proper authorities' were not the city officials, but more probably state officials", "It is difficult for us to say exactly at what point Engineer A should have reported her concerns to the 'appropriate authorities.' However, we would suggest that such reporting should have occurred at such time as Engineer A was reasonably certain that no action would be taken concerning her recommendations either by City Administrator C or the members of the city council and, that in her professional judgment, a probable danger to the public safety and health then existed." ; proeth:wasattributedto "Case 92 Extraction" ; prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T14:00:16.248180"^^xsd:dateTime ; prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 92 Extraction" .