A Steuben County (NY) 911 dispatcher has been arrested and charged with official misconduct after police learned that suspects under investigation were obtaining confidential information from her. Jacque Stetler, 49, faces up to a year in jail on the misdemeanor charge, and she was immediately fired from her job as dispatcher. A joint investigation by the sheriff, district attorney and Hammondsport Police Dept. uncovered contacts between Stetler and “targets of investigations,” said sheriff Joel Ordway. He said the incidents occurred in Nov. 2008, which was “giving people a heads up” on law enforcement investigations. Ordway said she was a five-year veteran of the comm center, and was released after booking. Comm center officials have not commented on her arrest. The arrest is similar to at least three others in the past year where dispatchers allegedly provided information to criminal suspects, but were discovered and arrested.
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