GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — A state appeals court ruled in Green Bay’s favor Tuesday in an appeal of the discipline of a police officer.
The Green Bay Professional Police Association and Andrew Weiss appealed a court’s decision upholding an arbitration award. The arbitrator concluded that Weiss violated various Green Bay Police Department policies by accessing information contained in confidential Department files without authorization and by leaking that information to third parties outside of the Department. The arbitrator therefore determined that the Department had cause to remove Weiss from his position as detective and assign him to the patrol division — which resulted in Weiss’s loss of an $80 monthly stipend.
Weiss and the union appealed, but in the 14-page decision, the state appeals court ruled in the city’s favor, saying all of the proper notices were provided.
“We conclude that the circuit court properly rejected the Association’s arguments and confirmed the arbitration award,” the court wrote. “We therefore reject the Association’s claim that the arbitrator misconstrued the law and the labor agreement by finding that the Department had cause to remove Weiss from his detective assignment.”
The case centered on Weiss accessing information in a two sexual assault investigations that he was not involved with, and then providing the information to someone outside the police department.
