{"id":12418,"date":"2017-01-10T09:02:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T17:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/park-official-off-duty-comments-draw-watchdog-attention\/"},"modified":"2017-01-10T09:02:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T17:02:06","slug":"park-official-off-duty-comments-draw-watchdog-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/park-official-off-duty-comments-draw-watchdog-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Park official off-duty comments draw watchdog attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JUNEAU<\/strong> \u2014 A U.S. Interior Department watchdog says an official with Denali National Park and Preserve had a conversation of a sexual nature with park service employees that showed questionable judgment.<\/p>\n<p>The department\u2019s Office of Inspector General said Monday that it had investigated a claim that a park official made inappropriate comments during an off-duty gathering at the official\u2019s home. The office said it did not find that the official harassed or offended anyone. But it said the conversation was not in line with department policies for supervisors.<\/p>\n<p>The official was not identified.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Bert Frost, Alaska regional director for the National Park Service, said the agency has taken \u201cappropriate supervisory steps in response to the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Denali spokeswoman said she couldn\u2019t provide further information on the personnel issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNEAU \u2014 A U.S. Interior Department watchdog says an official with Denali National Park and Preserve had a conversation of a sexual nature with park service employees that showed questionable judgment. The department\u2019s Office of Inspector General said Monday that it had investigated a claim that a park official made inappropriate comments during an off-duty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-12418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12418"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}