(A) A safety-sensitive position is one in which a momentary lapse of attention may result in grave and immediate danger to the public. The following positions are considered safety sensitive:
(1) Law enforcement officers who carry firearms and jailers;
(2) Motor vehicle operators who carry passengers, including, but not limited to, ambulance drivers, bus or jitney drivers, and drivers who transport other city employees;
(3) Fire department employees who directly participate in fire-fighting activities;
(4) Medical personnel with direct patient care responsibilities including physicians, nurses, surgical scrub technicians, emergency medical technicians and trainees, medical and nurses assistants;
(5) Mechanics, welders and sheet metal workers who work on vehicles designed to carry passengers such as buses, ambulance, police cruisers, vans and the like; and
(6) Other employees whose duties meet the definition of safety or security-sensitive after consultation with and approval by the Arkansas Municipal League.
(B) A security-sensitive position includes:
(1) Any police officer, jailer, police dispatcher and police department employee, including clerical workers, having access to information concerning ongoing criminal investigations and criminal cases, which information could, if revealed, compromise, hinder or prejudice the investigation or prosecution of the case.
(2) The city also considers law enforcement officers as holding security-sensitive positions by reason of their duty to enforce the laws pertaining to the use of illegal substances. Officers who themselves use such substances may be unsympathetic to the enforcement of the law and subject to blackmail and bribery.
(Ord. 345, passed 10-20-03)