Do children count as family members?
According to Dauphin County’s nepotism policy, they don’t.
County commissioners earlier this month approved the hiring of Sheriff Nick Chimienti Jr.’s son, also named Nick Chimienti. While county policy forbids family members from supervising each other or from working the same shift in the same department, that doesn’t apply to children as they are no longer included in the policy’s definition of “family.” That’s because the commissioners revised the policy in 2023 to remove “son or stepson” and “daughter or stepdaughter” from the policy, instead adding aunts, uncles and half-siblings in their place…