Court Opinion

ID: 5815030
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 19:35:44.335615+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:42:58.522773
License: Public Domain

Respondent’s determination to dismiss petitioner from the Police Department is supported by substantial evidence that petitioner wrongfully discussed and divulged official department business with a person known to the department (Matter of Purdy v Kreisberg, 47 NY2d 354 [1979]). Given the risk to the general public arising from the passing of sensitive information about a narcotics case to another subject of the same ongoing narcotics investigation, the penalty of dismissal does not shock our sense of fairness (see Matter of Kelly v Safir, 96 NY2d 32, 38 [2001]). Concur — Tom, J.P, Andrias, Sweeny, Moskowitz and Renwick, JJ.