Complaints of misconduct against nurses are taking more than a year for the Ohio Board of Nursing to investigate -- allowing some of the nurses to continue to care for patients while under investigation -- because complaints have skyrocketed in recent years. The number of complaints against nurses is climbing, causing the backlog in investigations before the state nursing board's disciplinary system, a Dayton Daily News investigation has found.
A member of the Allegheny County Jail Oversight Board said on Thursday she's continuing to receive complaints from inmates, including one account of a beating and another of guards trying to taunt inmates into fighting each other. Gayle Moss, who also is president of the Pittsburgh branch of the NAACP, said she wasn't ready to release specifics.
PARIS -- Chief David Verrier told selectmen Monday that the Paris police department has received 30 complaints about fireworks since May. Most were before 10 p.m., and weren't illegal. Verrier said the calls were an extra load on his officers. "We've been responding to a lot of calls for service. We don't need 30 more complaints.
The purpose of this article is twofold. First we present some of the measurement problems involved in interpreting consumer complaint data. Second we provide some unique longitudinal results on complaint propensity documenting that, in spite of a doubling of the number of cases submitted to the Danish National Complaints Board, the propensity to complain in Denmark has not increased in the past 25 years. We conclude by discussing how the analysis should be extended from merely describing to explaining the variation in propensity to complain across consumers.
TURNER -- Selectmen and Androscoggin County Sheriff Guy Desjardins sympathized with residents Monday night about fireworks disturbing their neighborhood. Resident Joanne Buck said she called 911 about the excessive noise and was told: "'Your community has no ordinance on fireworks, and even if it did, we could not enforce it.'
RUMFORD -- A special town meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, to consider enacting a 180-day moratorium on the use of consumer fireworks in town. Should the moratorium be enacted, it will be illegal to set off fireworks in Rumford, Town Manager Carlo Puiia said Tuesday afternoon.
A 10-member civilian board would review complaints against Columbia police officers after internal investigations and make discipline recommendations to the city manager, according to the first draft of a city ordinance. Ken Burton
By AMY NIXON The Big Bend-Vernon Fire Board discussed two complaints Monday filed by Secretary Julie Bauer over what she considers misrepresentation of her character by board member Sue Fischer.
One call does it all," Mayor Byron W. Brown likes to say about the city's 311 system. The telephone number that city residents use to complain about graffiti and potholes might soon do a little more.
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