City Hall changes job description of Pensacola Fire Chief before investigation completed

Inweekly has discovered the job description for the Pensacola Fire Chief was changed on March 14, six weeks before Beggs & Lane attorney Russell Van…

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City of Pensacola CFO warns Council about special meeting on fire chiefs

Dick Barker, Chief Financial Officer for the City of Pensacola, yesterday sent a memo to City Administrator Eric Olson warning that any public discussion of…

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Deas complaint against Pensacola deputy fire chief may not have qualified as a city grievance

The complaint lodged by Chief Human Resources Officer Ed Sisson that has gotten the most attention from the media concerns how Fire Chief Matt Schmitt…

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Pensacola mayor defends independence of investigation of fire chiefs

Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward addressed with the News Journal concerns that the Beggs & Lane attorney Russell Van Sickle’s investigation of Fire Chief Matt Schmitt…

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Independence of Pensacola fire chiefs investigation questioned

New documents published by former Pensacola Councilwoman Maren Deweese have cast doubts about the independence of Beggs & Lane attorney Russell Van Sickle’s investigation of…

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Boyd Forum: Citizens admonish empty chairs of MIA Pensacola mayor and administrator

Several citizens appeared the Boyd Forum held at the beginning of the Pensacola City Council on Thursday, May 12. Many wore red bands on their…

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Pensacola City Hall adds more files to ‘Transparent’ page on fire chiefs

On Tuesday, May 10, when the mayor’s office published the mayor’s decision to terminate Pensacola Fire Chief Matt Schmitt and Deputy Fire Chief Joe Glover,…

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Inside Fire Chiefs Report: Deas complaint, failed to follow union grievance process

Chief Human Resources Office Ed Sisson complained, “Schmitt and Glover intentionally and deceptively severely retaliated against Edward Deas, an African-American Fire Lieutenant, merely because Deas made…

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Inside Fire Chiefs Report: Drug test, questioned but taken, nothing improper found

Chief Human Resource Officer Ed Sisson also complained that “Glover improperly tried to obstruct a random drug test.” Beggs & Lane attorney Russell Van Sickle…

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Inside the Fire Chiefs Report: Sisson upset about dinner remarks, really?

Chief Human Resource Officer Ed Sisson claimed that Deputy Fire Chief Joe Glover publicly demeaned him during the Firefighters Annual Awards ceremony Beggs & Lane…

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Inside Fire Chiefs Investigation: Battalion chief raises, ‘blame to go around to all’

Chief Human Resources Officer Ed Sisson complained that “(Deputy Fire Chief) Glover and (Fire Chief) Schmitt handled raise requests for the battalion chiefs poorly, and…

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Inside Pensacola Fire Chiefs Report: Apprenticeship and BMW complaint ruled unfounded

Among Chief Human Resources Officer Ed Sisson’s six complaints was an allegation about Deputy Fire Chief Joe Glover and the Fire Apprenticeship Program: “Glover poorly…

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