The Insubordination of a State Employee

Rebecca Jones was fired in May of 2020 for publishing data from the dashboard and talking to the press without permission. The IT Director at the Florida Department of Health, Craig Curry, emailed the department's labor relations consultant Tiffany Hicks looking for guidance on properly documenting actions of one of my employees. She violated the instruction and locked out other DOH officials from having any access to it. But she wasn't even fired for that. You can't just go speak to the press when you are not authorized to do so. And then you can't get surprised when you're reprimanded for doing so.