Tim Doherty
A Hattiesburg police detective
who resigned March 28 has filed a notice of appeal after the Civil Service
Commission declined jurisdiction in acting on his request that a suspension and
reprimand be removed from his personnel file.
Attorney David Frazier, who
represents former Hattiesburg Police Department Detective Juston Frazier, filed
the notice Friday in Forrest County Circuit Court against the City of
Hattiesburg.
In an email of notification
sent Saturday to City Attorney Charles Lawrence and Linda Montgomery, clerk of
the Civil Service Commission, David Frazier “most humbly and respectfully
requests” on behalf of his client “and at this time moves that each member of
the Hattiesburg Civil Service Commission recuse themselves from hearing any
issues, from making any decisions, or from taking any actions on the merits in
this matter and that a new appeal panel be appointed, as provided by law, to
conduct a full investigation of the facts and circumstances which led to the
constructive termination of employment of Juston S. Frazier from the
Hattiesburg Police Department.”
The email also requests that
after “a full investigation has taken place with independent interview of all
necessary witnesses who are aware of the facts and circumstances of the matters
herein, that Juston S. Frazier be afforded his rights to a full, due process
hearing.”
In 2013, Juston Frazier was
suspended without pay and reprimanded after refusing to deliver an apology
ordered by Hattiesburg Police Chief Frazier Bolton to Mayor Johnny DuPree.
