A sewer plant operator who was caught using “cannabinoids” is one of four people who’ve been dismissed from Graham’s municipal staff in the past year and a half.
According to Graham’s personnel records, this 13-year veteran of the city’s utilities staff was let go in October under the city’s “zero tolerance” policy for substance abuse in the workplace. Meanwhile, substandard performance have apparently cut short the careers of a police officer and a recreation department staff member while another police officer has been sacked for “conduct unbecoming.”
The Alamance News has obtained details about these four terminations as part of an ongoing series on disciplinary actions by public sector employers in Alamance County. This series, which began last week with a roundup of actions in Elon, follows up on a similar set of disclosures that the newspaper ran in the summer of 2024…