A former Ashland police officer was sentenced Friday for misusing the Nebraska Criminal Justice Information System to make dozens of unauthorized searches on family members, his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend.
Steven Zieg pleaded no contest to obtaining confidential public information, a misdemeanor, in return for the prosecutor dropping a second charge of official misconduct.
Saunders County Court Judge Andrew Lange fined him $500 for it.
Saunders County Special Prosecutor Julie Reiter, who is the Butler County Attorney, said the case started in October 2022 when Zieg’s ex-girlfriend reported the allegation to the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office.
Reiter said on Dec. 2, 2022, a crime analyst with the Nebraska State Patrol completed an audit of Zieg’s use of NCJIS and located more than five dozen unauthorized searches, including 16 on his ex-girlfriend and 14 on her new boyfriend.
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The rest were on himself and family members.
She said Zieg performed the searches while he was working as a police officer with the Ashland Police Department and they were done in violation of the NCJIS rules and regulations and Nebraska Law.
Zieg no longer is an Ashland police officer.
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States where the most workers are quitting their jobs
States where the most workers are quitting their jobs
Low pay, minimal opportunities for growth, and disrespectful work environments are just a handful of the top reasons employees quit their jobs, according to the Pew Research Center. Of course, there are myriad reasons workers might put in their notices, ranging from the mundane, such as moving to a new state, to the dramatic, like having blow-up arguments with a supervisor.
Quits are down from the recent span of historically high rates during the Great Resignation. The national quit rate in April was 2.2%, or about 3.5 million people, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Over the past 12 months, layoffs among major employers across the U.S. have tempered feelings of job security.
However, certain states continue to feel the burden of high turnover. To discover which ones, Stacker used Bureau of Labor Statistics data to rank states and Washington D.C. by their preliminary April quit rates, using the number of quitters as a tiebreaker when needed. Quit rates are calculated by taking the number of quits during the month as a percentage of the total number of jobs in a state.
Keep reading to see where your state falls.
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#51. Massachusetts
– Quit rate: 1.2%
– Number of quits: 45,000
#50. California
– Quit rate: 1.5%
– Number of quits: 262,000
#49. Washington DC
– Quit rate: 1.6%
– Number of quits: 12,000
#46. New York
– Quit rate: 1.8%
– Number of quits: 173,000
#45. Hawai’i
– Quit rate: 1.9%
– Number of quits: 12,000
#43. Iowa
– Quit rate: 2%
– Number of quits: 33,000
#41. Illinois
– Quit rate: 2%
– Number of quits: 120,000
#40. New Hampshire
– Quit rate: 2.1%
– Number of quits: 15,000
#39. Minnesota
– Quit rate: 2.1%
– Number of quits: 64,000
#38. Michigan
– Quit rate: 2.1%
– Number of quits: 96,000
#36. Vermont
– Quit rate: 2.2%
– Number of quits: 7,000
#33. Georgia
– Quit rate: 2.2%
– Number of quits: 111,000
#31. Maine
– Quit rate: 2.4%
– Number of quits: 16,000
#30. Idaho
– Quit rate: 2.4%
– Number of quits: 21,000
#29. Kentucky
– Quit rate: 2.4%
– Number of quits: 48,000
#26. Rhode Island
– Quit rate: 2.5%
– Number of quits: 13,000
#24. Oklahoma
– Quit rate: 2.5%
– Number of quits: 44,000
#23. Alabama
– Quit rate: 2.5%
– Number of quits: 54,000
#20. Arizona
– Quit rate: 2.5%
– Number of quits: 81,000
#20. Indiana
– Quit rate: 2.5%
– Number of quits: 81,000
#19. New Mexico
– Quit rate: 2.6%
– Number of quits: 23,000
#18. Arkansas
– Quit rate: 2.6%
– Number of quits: 35,000
#15. Oregon
– Quit rate: 2.6%
– Number of quits: 52,000
#14. North Dakota
– Quit rate: 2.7%
– Number of quits: 12,000
#13. Delaware
– Quit rate: 2.7%
– Number of quits: 13,000
#11. Ohio
– Quit rate: 2.7%
– Number of quits: 151,000
#10. South Carolina
– Quit rate: 2.8%
– Number of quits: 67,000
#8. South Dakota
– Quit rate: 3%
– Number of quits: 14,000
#6. Florida
– Quit rate: 3%
– Number of quits: 301,000
#4. West Virginia
– Quit rate: 3.1%
– Number of quits: 22,000
#3. Montana
– Quit rate: 3.2%
– Number of quits: 17,000
#1. Alaska
– Quit rate: 3.9%
– Number of quits: 13,000
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