Zane Seipler
Former McHenry County Deputy Sheriff Zane Seipler has written a couple of paragraphs on his blog “McHenry County Sheriff’s Department Exposed” Friday that might be worth reading.
He explains his side of the dispute with Sheriff Keith Nygren.
You can read the first part of it below:
In July of 2008 I was put on administrative leave for what will now be known as “TICKET GATE”.
(Let’s set the record straight, I did not falsify any tickets, I falsified a written WARNING.
I falsified that warning to give a teenage kid a break.
………I know, I know, I’m the devil.
There is a huge difference between falsifying a warning and falsifyiing a ticket.. If a deputy intentionally falsifies a TICKET it is possible to charge that deputy with perjury.
If a deputy falsifies three TICKETS and then lies about falsifying three TICKETS, she can be given a three day suspension. As is the case with Deputy Asplund and that is the standard that Arbitrator Malin and Judge Meyer used to decided that Sheriff Nygren’s termination of me was unjust.
You see I never once lied about anything I did. That can’t be said about dozens of other deputies….supervisors, NYGREN.)
There is more in another story and even older stories on back pages you may be able to reach if you would like to see what makes me think it is worth trips to Rockford to see his wrongful termination suit play out.
Ummm…how is signing your name to a document stating that someone violated a law that they did not, not a lie? Equally confused how an officer of the law creating and signing a document stating a young woman committed a crime that they did not is in any way “giving them a break”? I just hope none of my daughters are ever in the position of being used by a police officer in the way Zane used the passengers in these vehicles.
I think the scariest thing is how he rationalizes signing a falsified document in a way that he actually insinuates it was something honorable.