OBERLIN, La. (AP) - The Louisiana Ethics Board has filed charges against Oberlin Police Chief Grady Haynes for getting paid to write Local Agency Compensated Enforcement tickets while on duty.
KPLC-TV reports (https://bit.ly/2k7KKzS ) the LACE program allows off-duty officers to make extra money but the board says it’s unethical for the chief to participate.
Police write LACE tickets when they’re off duty and get $15 an hour. But the ethics charges indicate Haynes can’t receive such pay, because as chief, he’s on-duty 24-hours a day, seven days a week. Plus the program is run by his agency.
Haynes makes more than $33,000 a year. According to the charges, he received more than $72,000 for writing LACE tickets from 2013 to 2016.
The Ethics Adjudicatory Board has not set a hearing to hear the case.
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Information from: KPLC-TV, https://kplctv.com
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