An employee in the city of Cleveland’s planning department has been placed on administrative leave pending the results of a pre-disciplinary hearing after they made “concerning comments” to two coworkers, a City Hall official confirmed to Scene.
The official couldn’t share much information regarding the comments or the employee, but did say the incident was not related to recent attention on the department and its staff by 15-minute city conspiracy theorists.
It wasn’t a “threat at large,” the official told Scene, but the comments were serious enough to warrant immediate action.
Separately, Ideastream reports that an employee in building and housing last year threatened to “shoot up” the department. She’s been transferred to public works after disciplinary hearings early this year.
City Hall isn’t operating at any level of new heightened security in the aftermath of the incidents per se, but enforcement of existing policies and measures — metal detectors, badge swipes, bag screenings — have been tightened up, the official said.
Note: This article has been updated to reflect that these were separate incidents.
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