Superior Authority Suppression of Regulatory Reporting Obligation State
Class
36bae416
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#SuperiorAuthoritySuppressionofRegulatoryReportingObligationState
Definition
State in which a professional engineer employed in a public-sector or institutional role has identified a legally reportable condition (e.g., overflow capacity violations requiring state water pollution control authority notification) and has been explicitly warned or directed by an immediate supervisor to suppress or redirect that reporting — channeling it only through the supervisor rather than to the legally required external authority — creating a direct conflict between the engineer's legal and ethical reporting obligations and the supervisor's directive, and making the engineer potentially complicit in an ongoing legal violation if the engineer complies with the suppression directive.
Properties
Subclass of
Definition
State in which a professional engineer employed in a public-sector or institutional role has identified a legally reportable condition (e.g., overflow capacity violations requiring state water pollution control authority notification) and has been explicitly warned or directed by an immediate supervisor to suppress or redirect that reporting — channeling it only through the supervisor rather than to the legally required external authority — creating a direct conflict between the engineer's legal and ethical reporting obligations and the supervisor's directive, and making the engineer potentially complicit in an ongoing legal violation if the engineer complies with the suppression directive.
Source Evidence
Source Text
being warned by the city administrator to report the problem only to him
TTL
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Metadata
Ontology
Type
Class
Content Hash
36bae416e1581c73...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
139
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-02-28T10:39:56.265940+00:00
First Discovered In Case
139
Generated
2026-02-28T10:39:56.265940+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 139 Extraction