JACKSON Tenn (April 15, 2015) – For the third time this year the Civil Service Commission will decide the future of a Madison County Sheriff’s Department employee.
On Wednesday the commission heard the case of former Madison County Deputy Danny Bray. Bray was terminated from the department for violating attendance policy.
County attorney steve Maroney represented the county in the hearing. The three-member panel heard the case in the Madison County Chancery Court. Bray represented himself.
Maroney called four witnesses in the case. Lt Harold Petty told the commissioners he sent a letter to Bray on June 13, 2014 to inform him that due to excessive absences a doctors excuse would be required every time he called in sick.
The former Madison County correctional officer was terminated by the Madison County Sheriff’s Office for being absent from duty excessively between June 13 and Sept. 28, 2014.
According to the Sheriff’s Office, Bray did not report for duty 13 times from June 13 to Sept. 28.
Maroney  Sgt. Stanley Flowers and Sgt. Allen Castleman as witnesses. and Deputy County Mayor Tony White, who sent Bray his letter of termination. Bray began working for the Madison County Sheriff’s Department Oct. 16, 2012, he was terminated Dec. 19, 2014.
In the two previous appeals the commissioners ruled in favor of the Sheriff’s Office in the first case and in favor of the former employee in the second.
The commission will take the case under advisement.A ruling should be decided in about a week.
