“When a system retaliates, like PeaceHealth Ketchikan did, against a nurse for voicing safety concerns, it creates a chilling effect in that other nurses and health care staff will not speak out in fear of retaliation from administration,” traveling nurse Marian Weber said. “And this can result in harm or death of patients and/or staff.”
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Ketchikan’s school board says a draft policy requiring it to consult with tribal governments is overly broad and wants it to be refined by its policy committee.
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“We wrote a new board policy … in order to address our responsibility to meet in government-to-government consultation with the Alaska Native governments, the sovereign nations that are here in Ketchikan,” the school board’s Paul Robbins Jr. said.
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Ketchikan’s school board meets at 6 p.m. Wednesday.
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“I can’t come up with anything that would be any rationale to not consider this. The benefits seem to be obvious,” City Council Member Mark Flora said. “If body-worn cameras are good, dashcams should be an enhancement.”
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