After receiving a $271,000 offer to serve as an interim assistant city manager overseeing the Austin Police Department, former Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo announced Tuesday he wouldn't accept the position.
Since Tales from the Fifth Floor – home of the executive team of the Austin Police Department – is such a long-running soap opera, we ve had a chance to visit with its characters more than once over the decades. (All dates below are when we published, either in print or online, not when the events actually occurred.)
2004:
May 28: Sgt. Jason Dusterhoft figures in a kerfuffle within the Austin Police Association. A push to recall the union s then-president Mike Sheffield cites his ratting out Dusterhoft, then APA board secretary, for using his official city email and not the union s to communicate with officers.