{"id":233729,"date":"2013-01-09T17:24:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T23:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=233729"},"modified":"2013-01-10T17:52:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T23:52:11","slug":"city-upholds-termination-of-injured-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=233729","title":{"rendered":"City Upholds Termination of Injured Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=232779\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-232779\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/01\/Leigh-Ann-Snyder.jpg\" alt=\"Leigh Ann Snyder\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-232779\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW \u2014 In a letter Wednesday, Longview City Manager David Willard upheld the decision to terminate Officer Leigh Ann Snyder. According to KETK, Officer Snyder was critically injured after her vehicle was hit on the job in December 2011, allegedly by an uninsured drunk driver. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities say since the crash, Snyder has undergone multiple surgeries and has been unable to return to duty, due to her injuries. She spent four weeks in a local hospital before she was released. Snyder appealed the termination in December and took her case before a committee on January 3. It was denied Wednesday afternoon. \u201cThis is the end of the process on our end,\u201d said city Spokesperson Shawn Hara on what will happen next.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, the city changed its policy to allow employees to remain off duty for 12 months before being terminated. Prior to that time, workers would be terminated after six months. Snyder is the fifth city employee and first police officer to be terminated under this policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2014 In a letter Wednesday, Longview City Manager David Willard upheld the decision to terminate Officer Leigh Ann Snyder. According to KETK, Officer Snyder was critically injured after her vehicle was hit on the job in December 2011, allegedly by an uninsured drunk driver. Authorities say since the crash, Snyder has undergone multiple surgeries &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=233729\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">City Upholds Termination of Injured Officer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 04:50:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233729"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233977,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233729\/revisions\/233977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}