What Steve Epright did was annoy his politically sensitive superiors. He e-mailed a Collier County commissioner about the future of Emergency Medical Services, for which top county officials have discussed privatization. Those officials now say the idea is dead and they want employees to stop talking about it.
In other words, they want EMS workers to shut up.
The way to put the matter to rest is for supervisors to talk with EMS workers and invite any and all questions.
Epright was going to be docked two weeks' pay. It took Epright the full force of an attorney, Mike Carr, coincidentally the chairman of the county commissioners' own Republican party, to right the wrong and get the suspension dropped.
So that is what the EMS manager did. That is the clumsy way county management handled it.
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