By Austin Haglett
St. Louis Post Dispatch
st. LOUIS – The city sheriff’s office is making another change under newly elected Sheriff Alfred Montgomery. They ask employees to oppose gossip.
A notice distributed this week to agents entitled “Professional Action Policy: No Gossip Commitment,” states that the firm’s ability to serve the public and support the law depends on mutual trust, unity and discipline of expertise.
“Gossip compromises all of this,” reads the notification. “Choosing not to engage in gossip supports a stronger and more respectful sheriff’s office.”
No gossip commitment
The St. Louis Sheriff’s Office is asking employees to refrain from disciplining gossip and risk.
The notice calls for me to “avoid talking about others negatively when necessary for work-related purposes” and “please pledge to avoid redirecting conversations or denying to leave gossip by stating my commitment to professionalism.
It states that failure to comply could result in disciplinary action “until the end.”
The directive follows a few months of controversy in the office.
Since taking office in January, Montgomery has arrested a prison civil servant, ordered his lieutenant to roll a golden dice for his job, and told his lieutenant to have his child welcomed at school.
And just a few weeks ago he made the news again when he discovered that Alderman had spent $12,000 to buy four second-hand golf carts. Councillors repeatedly questioned why the office needed them between two adjacent courthouses in downtown when representatives did much of their work.
But Blake Lawrence, a lawyer and top Montgomery aide, said the new policy wasn’t being pushed by anything in particular.
It was drafted as part of a large review of the office’s employee handbook, he said.
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