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WhiskeyGrinder

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Tue Jan 10, 2023, 09:30 PM Jan 2023

Former Hennepin Sheriff Hutchinson reinstated as Metro Transit police sergeant with a pay bump [View all]

https://www.startribune.com/former-hennepin-sheriff-hutchinson-reinstated-as-metro-transit-police-sergeant-with-a-pay-bump/600242373/

Former Hennepin County Sheriff David Hutchinson, who went on paid medical leave from his elected position last May and was censured by the county for creating a hostile work environment, has been reinstated as a sergeant in the Metro Transit Police Department, according to information obtained Tuesday.

According to the Metropolitan Council, Hutchinson was reinstated Jan. 2 as a sergeant at $55.09 per hour, or $114,587 annually. When he left Metro Transit as a sergeant in December 2018, shortly after his surprise election as county sheriff, he was paid $44.26 an hour, or $92,060 a year.

Metro Transit spokeswoman Terri Dresen declined to discuss Hutchinson's job status, duties or assignment, but in response to the Star Tribune's data practices request, he is listed as an "active" employee.

Dresen did, however, say that since Hutchinson's "reinstatement, a formal complaint has been filed. The Met Council takes this complaint very seriously and has begun a full investigation into the allegations." She did not elaborate on the nature of the complaint.
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