{"id":96080,"date":"2016-03-11T07:31:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T13:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=96080"},"modified":"2016-03-13T18:12:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:12:11","slug":"sheriff-terminates-deputy-filed-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=96080","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff terminates deputy, Elizabeth Kapp"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KappHeitkamp\"<\/a>Jamestown (CSi) Stutsman County Sheriff, Chad Kaiser has terminated a Stutsman County deputy who filed a complaint about improper use of vehicles in the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

Kaiser said he terminated Elizabeth Kapp from her position as a sheriff\u2019s office deputy last week. Kapp had been employed there since 2003 and was promoted to sergeant in 2012. \u00a0(related story: \u00a0Kapp receives Zonta Leadership Award<\/a>). Kapp (r) picture with US Senator Heitkamp (L). \u00a0A support page<\/a> has been set up on Facebook.<\/p>\n

Mark Friese, Kapp\u2019s attorney, said his client intended to proceed with a grievance or court case to reverse the termination.<\/p>\n

Kaiser said Kapp had been subject to a performance improvement plan since November after receiving an unsatisfactory performance review and a letter of reprimand.<\/p>\n

Kapp filed a written complaint in January that the staff of the Stutsman County Sheriff\u2019s Office was improperly using office vehicles for personal use after verbally reporting it to Kaiser in October.<\/p>\n

On February 15th, Stutsman County state\u2019s attorney, Fritz Fremgen,declined to pursue the complaint, saying “the extent of the use is not something I would pursue criminally when there is an employer positioned to take negative personnel action.”<\/p>\n

Kaiser says an internal investigation into the same incident by the Stutsman County Sheriff\u2019s Office is complete, but the results were not released pending the completion of a parallel investigation by the Jamestown Police Department.<\/p>\n

Related stories at CSiNewsNOW.com<\/p>\n

Terminated deputy receives Zonta Leadership Award<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a03\/12\/16<\/p>\n

City terminates Police Sgt Nagel following review<\/a>\u00a0 3\/11\/16<\/p>\n

The Elizabeth Kapp Support Zone – Facebook page<\/a> 3\/2\/16<\/p>\n

Sheriff terminates deputy who filed complaint<\/a>\u00a0 3\/1\/16<\/p>\n

Insufficient evidence to file defamation charge<\/a>\u00a0 2\/4\/16<\/p>\n

Local BCI investigation to gear up<\/a>\u00a0 12\/28\/15<\/p>\n

BCI looking into false allegations of misuse<\/a>\u00a0 11\/10\/15<\/p>\n

Related story at ValleyNewsLive:<\/p>\n

Fraud and feud at Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office<\/a>\u00a0 11\/9\/15<\/p>\n

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Jamestown (CSi) Stutsman County Sheriff, Chad Kaiser has terminated a Stutsman County deputy who filed a complaint about improper use of vehicles in the sheriff\u2019s office. Kaiser said he terminated Elizabeth Kapp from her position as a sheriff\u2019s office deputy last week. Kapp had been employed there since 2003 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":96823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96080"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96827,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96080\/revisions\/96827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}