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Instructor acuses Missouri State Highway Patrol of underpaying senior officers

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An instructor with the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s training academy has filed a lawsuit accusing the law enforcement agency of violating its pay plan.

The suit was filed by Lt. Eldon Wulf, who works at the Highway Patrol’s headquarters and who worked for the State Water Patrol before the two agencies merged in 2011.  According to the Jefferson City News Tribune, Wulf accuses the Highway Patrol of underpaying some senior officers and overpaying around 70 sergeants and other employees.  His suit stated that he’s underpaid by $132 per paycheck, or more than $3,100 each year. Officials for both the Highway Patrol and the Attorney General’s office have declined to comment on the case. It will be heard in Cole County Circuit Court.

Missouri Public Radio State House Reporter Marshall Griffin is a proud alumnus of the University of Mississippi (a.k.a., Ole Miss), and has been in radio for over 20 years, starting out as a deejay. His big break in news came when the first President Bush ordered the invasion of Panama in 1989. Marshall was working the graveyard shift at a rock station, and began ripping news bulletins off the old AP teletype and reading updates between songs. From there on, his radio career turned toward news reporting and anchoring. In 1999, he became the capital bureau chief for Florida's Radio Networks, and in 2003 he became News Director at WFSU-FM/Florida Public Radio. During his time in Tallahassee he covered seven legislative sessions, Governor Jeb Bush's administration, four hurricanes, the Terri Schiavo saga, and the 2000 presidential recount. Before coming to Missouri, he enjoyed a brief stint in the Blue Ridge Mountains, reporting and anchoring for WWNC-AM in Asheville, North Carolina. Marshall lives in Jefferson City with his wife, Julie, their dogs, Max and Mason, and their cat, Honey.