Pilot Rock hired Gary Thompson as a police officer in February 2015, and nine months later the city council accused him of lying and fired him.
Thompson maintained throughout that he did not lie, and a state investigator for the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training in January concluded there was not enough evidence to show Thompson was dishonest.
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