Seven other employees are pending termination proceedings, and a total of 14 personnel -- 13 sworn and one civilian -- have been found to not be in compliance with the vaccination mandate, Choi said.
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About 83% of the department is fully vaccinated, 0.4% is partially vaccinated and 16.2% is not vaccinated. More than 2,000 exemptions are pending.
Medical exemptions are available to people who tested positive for COVID-19 recently, as those individuals get a 90-day exemption.
City Councilman Joe Buscaino, who is running for mayor, on Friday called for the city's employee vaccination mandate to be repealed, saying he believes "it should be a matter of personal choice and that we should respect our employees' civil liberties and allow them to make their own personal medical decisions."
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The mandate for city employees to be vaccinated was approved by the City Council on Aug. 18. Employees were required to be inoculated against COVID-19 by Dec. 18.