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1 90. However,not one to leave anything to chance,Chief Valentin made the unprecedented move <br /> 2 <br /> of rescheduling the Enhanced Resume Assessment interview to the following week.This allowed Lieutenant <br /> 3 <br /> 4 Andrade to remain on the panel and it avoided the "risk" of having to place a potentially unfriendly <br /> 5 lieutenant on the panel. <br /> 6 91. This unusual and unprecedented move by Chief Valentin to change the date of the Enhanced <br /> 7 <br /> Resume Assessment interview created confusion among the candidates as to when the Practical Exercise <br /> 8 <br /> 9 would be held.It was assumed that,in congruence with past practice that the interviews be held on the same <br /> 10 day, the Practical Exercise would also be pushed back a week. Moreover, since each interview required a <br /> 11 5-day grievance period, the Practical Exercise could not be held a week before the Resume Assessment. <br /> 12 <br /> However,contrary to past practice,CITY announced that the Practical Exercise was to be held as scheduled <br /> 13 <br /> 14 and, therefore, occur a week before the Enhanced Resume Assessment. <br /> 15 92. The 5-day grievance period for the Practical Exercise was simply eliminated.The elimination <br /> 16 of a grievance period for an internal interview was not only extremely unusual, but highly unprecedented <br /> 17 <br /> for a civil service hiring process. When Ms. Ferrer was confronted by candidates about this elimination of <br /> 18 <br /> 19 the grievance period for the Practical Exercise interview, she informed them that the grievance period did <br /> 20 not apply to this interview (despite past practice and what was written on her own handouts). Ms. Ferrer <br /> 21 claimed that,because the Practical Exercise was based on a strict point scoring system, it was ineligible for <br /> 22 <br /> grievance. <br /> 23 <br /> 24 93. However, as all of the components of the testing process were points-based (and even the <br /> 25 written test which was an objective point scoring test had a 5-day grievance period), this made absolutely <br /> 26 no sense and was completely counterintuitive. Moreover, the Practical Exercise is far from an unbiased, <br /> 27 <br /> purely points-based scoring system. The interview involves a tactical scenario and there are no absolute <br /> 28 <br /> singular correct answers in these scenarios;otherwise,all police officers would be taught the one correct way <br /> 23 <br /> KACAIItISKY v. CFTY OF SANTA ANA CASE NO. <br /> COMPLAINT <br />