Employee protection board orders reinstatement of US Park Police chief
[JURIST] The Merit System Protection Board (MSPB) [official website] on Wednesday ordered [opinion, PDF] the US Department of the Interior (DOI) [official website] to reinstate Teresa Chambers as U.S. Park Police chief after determining her termination was unjustified. The MSPB ruled that Chambers was wrongly discharged in December 2003 for discussing with a Washington Post [official website] reporter that the US Park Police Service [official website] was in need of additional resources. The board ordered the government to reinstate Chambers…