Columbus deputy police chief suing city now potentially faces firing for missed drug test

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Columbus police Deputy Chief Jennifer Knight missed a drug test because of work obligations in November. She's now facing potential discipline.

A deputy chief with the Columbus Division of Police faces potential termination for missing a randomly scheduled drug test in November as a result of an internal charge that was filed against her less than two weeks after she filed a federal lawsuit against the division, its chief and the city.

e before being reinstated. She said she was unable to attend the randomly scheduled drug test due to other obligations surrounding her job.Documents obtained by The Dispatch through a public records request show that disciplinary proceedings against Knight began in May, nearly six months after the missed drug test. She is charged with failing to abide by the city's central work rules surrounding a drug-free workplace.

The documents, which also include an internal routing sheet that has a section whited out and written over, show no disciplinary records within the police division include a comparable case involving someone at the deputy chief level. Knight has said that the suspension, which had never before been levied against a deputy chief, and ongoing drug tests are retaliation for Knight's filing of a complaint regarding then-and possible violations of the Division's code of conduct. Knight maintains she filed complaint at the order of then-Chief Thomas Quinlan, who was abiding by instructions from Mayor Andrew J.

 

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