{"id":35388,"date":"2025-11-06T05:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/35388\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T05:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:09:06","slug":"south-trail-fire-chief-on-leave-amid-misconduct-claims-by-female-employee-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/35388\/","title":{"rendered":"South Trail fire chief on leave amid misconduct claims by female employee | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South Trail Fire &amp; Rescue District is investigating Fire Chief Gene Rogers for alleged inappropriate behavior toward a female employee.\u00a0Wink News spoke with the PIO of South Trail and confirmed the information.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Rogers is currently on administrative leave as the district conducts an internal investigation. It is unclear if it is with or without pay.<\/p>\n<p>The South Trail Board of Fire Commissioners will discuss his potential return to work during a public meeting on November 12 at 12 p.m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The South Trail Fire &amp; Rescue District is investigating Fire Chief Gene Rogers for alleged inappropriate behavior toward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,5378,24637,24636,24640,24638,24639],"class_list":["post-35388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-fire-chief","tag-fire-commissioners","tag-gene-rogers","tag-hr-director","tag-south-trail-board-of-fire-commissioners","tag-south-trail-fire-chief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}