{"id":7537,"date":"2011-07-16T19:05:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T02:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=7537"},"modified":"2011-07-20T03:42:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T10:42:18","slug":"news-brief-judge-says-lewis-county-deputy-should-get-his-job-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=7537","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Judge says Lewis County deputy should get his job back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CHEHALIS &#8211; Former Lewis County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Deputy Hal Sprouse yesterday won his appeal of his firing.<\/p>\n<p>Sprouse, 61, was terminated by Sheriff Steve Mansfield in January of last year, and the Lewis County Civil Service Commission subsequently upheld the firing.<\/p>\n<p>A Cowlitz County Superior Court judge yesterday ruled in his favor, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been fighting the civil service ruling,&#8221; Sprouse said today. &#8220;The judge overturned it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He had been asking to be reinstated with backpay and benefits, he said.<\/p>\n<p>His appeal was filed in Lewis County, but a Cowlitz County judge has been handling it because of potential conflicts, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sprouse said he was happy about the judge&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I expected it all along &#8217;cause I really believe what I did was correct, was what I should do, and was within the law,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>His firing was related to him giving information to the Lewis County Prosecutor&#8217;s Office, he said. He didn&#8217;t want to discuss the details however, referring further questions to his lawyer<\/p>\n<p>The county has the right to appeal the decision, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sprouse, who started work at the sheriff&#8217;s office in November of 2001 after retiring from the Phoenix, Ariz. Police Department, is currently selling real estate locally, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter CHEHALIS &#8211; Former Lewis County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Deputy Hal Sprouse yesterday won his appeal of his firing. Sprouse, 61, was terminated by Sheriff Steve Mansfield in January of last year, and the Lewis County Civil Service Commission subsequently upheld the firing. A Cowlitz County Superior Court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-7537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7537"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7577,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537\/revisions\/7577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}