statesman.com on January 04, 2012 reported that state health officials fired a hospital psychiatrist last week after learning that he failed to disclose a decade-old legal settlement that banned him from ever working again at a state mental health facility. Dr. Alejandro Munoz, who had worked for the Terrell State Hospital since June 2006, was terminated Friday, according to a letter from the facility’s superintendent. Because Terrell is a state mental health facility, “you failed to abide by the settlement agreement,” Joe Finch wrote. Carrie Williams, spokeswoman for the Department of State Health Services, which oversees state psychiatric hospitals, said the discrepancy was discovered when officials reviewed Munoz’s employment records after he was named in a Statesman article as one of several state hospital psychiatrists with a history of sexual improprieties with their patients.

The original article can be found at statesman.com.