A senior employee with Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services (MCFRS) was found to have violated the department’s code of ethics several times in connection with allegations of inappropriate conduct.
According to an investigation by Montgomery County Maryland Inspector General Megan Davey Limarzi, the employee, who was not named, violated a hands-off and decorum provision of MCFRS’s personal conduct code of ethics in 2021.
Also, in 2019, the same employee used language that violated the decorum provision of the ethics code, according to the OIG.
The complaint was filed Jan. 2.
According to the ethics code, employees must “behave in a professional manner that reflects favorably on the department. Employees must be ‘courteous and respectful.’” They also must “behave with professionalism regarding any physical contact” and “refrain from any horseplay.”
The code also states that on-duty personnel must not “refer to or speak to any other person or group in a way that may reasonably be constructed as demeaning or constituting discrimination…engage in any unbecoming conduct…use violent, insolent, or obscene language or behavior at any time.”
The results of the investigation were referred to Rich Madaleno, county chief administrative officer.
