Saturday, March 18, 2000
Former trainer faces charge
'Revolving door' law at issue
BY DAVID ECK
Enquirer Contributor
LEBANON — A former employee of the Warren County Joint Vocational School District is facing a misdemeanor charge of violating Ohio's “revolving door law” by doing work for a central Ohio school district immediately after resigning from Warren County.
Larry Davidson, a former diversified industrial trainer at the Warren County Career Center, is accused of contacting Maysville Local Schools to conduct a safety plan while he was an employee of Warren County, then — after resigning from the career center — securing the Maysville contract for his private business.
“He is alleged to have used that position to secure a con tract for himself personally,” said Warren County Prosecutor Tim Oliver. “He received $2,100 from the Maysville school system as a result of his actions.”
The misdemeanor case is expected to be heard in Warren County court.
Mr. Davidson said he performed several safety plans for school districts as a career center employee, and got the Maysville job only after the career center had canceled its contract with Maysville.
“There was just some kind of uneasy feelings between me and (the career center),” Mr. Davidson said. “It's aggravating. Maysville contacted me. They just wanted Larry Davidson to do it. It was just one of these laws that I didn't know anything about.”
Mr. Oliver said Mr. Davidson should have waited at least a year after leaving the career center before working on a safety plan for Maysville.
“It's known as the revolving door statute,” Mr. Oliver said. “It prohibits a public employee from using his governmental position to feather his own nest for a period of time after he leaves.”
Mr. Davidson said he quit his job at the center last fall after he was told to give the safety plan work to another trainer.
Officials at the career center could not be reached for comment late Friday.
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