File #: 2007-0481    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 9/17/2007 In control: Law, Justice and Human Services Committee
On agenda: 10/22/2007 Final action: 10/22/2007
Enactment date: 11/2/2007 Enactment #: 15939
Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to reorganization of the department of public safety; amending Ordinance 1438, Section 3(c), as amended, and K.C.C. 2.16.060 and adding a new section to K.C.C. chapter 3.16.
Sponsors: Larry Phillips, Kathy Lambert, Bob Ferguson, Julia Patterson, Larry Gossett, Jane Hague, Reagan Dunn, Pete von Reichbauer, Dow Constantine
Indexes: Public Safety, Reorganization
Code sections: 2.16.060 -
Attachments: 1. 15939.pdf, 2. 2007-0481 Attachment #2 for 09-20-07 LJHS ~ Professional Standards and Gang Unit PowerPoint Presentation.ppt, 3. 2007-0481 Attachment #3 for 09-20-07 LJHS ~ Proposed Organization Chart Showing New Division.pdf, 4. 2007-0481 Attachment #4 for 09-20-07 LJHS ~ Title Amendment T1.doc, 5. 2007-0481 REVISED Staff Report for 09-20-07 LJHS.doc, 6. 2007-0481 Staff Report for 09-20-07 LJHS.doc
Staff: Curry, Clifton
Drafter
Clerk 09/24/2007
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AN ORDINANCE relating to reorganization of the department of public safety; amending Ordinance 1438, Section 3(c), as amended, and K.C.C. 2.16.060 and adding a new section to K.C.C. chapter 3.16.
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PREAMBLE:
State law allows a sheriff with a staff of five hundred one or more employees to have ten positions designated as unclassified service or exempt from the civil service system.
By the power granted in RCW 41.14.070(4), the county legislative authority may grant a sheriff up to twenty additional unclassified positions.
The King County sheriff's office currently has fourteen unclassified positions, which are exempt from the state civil service system for county sheriff's employees.
The positions of communications director, sheriff's aide and the chief of a newly proposed professional standards division in the sheriff's office have a close and confidential relationship with the sheriff. While these positions are typically exempt from civil service rules, and fall within the type of positions that can be exempt from state civil service, they are not currently included in the positions designated by King County as unclassified and exempt from civil service rules.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 1438, Section 3(c), as amended, and K.C.C. 2.16.060 are each hereby amended as follows:
A. The department of public safety, as identified in the Section 350.20.40 King County Charter, and managed by the King County sheriff, may also be known and cited in the King County Code and in other usage as the office of the sheriff. Employees managed by the King County sheriff may be referred to in the King County Code or otherwise, as King County police, King County officer, or deputy sheriff.
B. The department of public safety is responsible to keep and preserve the public peace and safety including the discharge of all duties of the office of sheriff under State law, except those duties rel...

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