Officer Miguel Bin, a Los Angeles Unified School District officer, was a school resident officer most of his career. After the academy, for his on-the-job training, he was assigned to a specific campus, where the majority of his transactions were over a local, walkie-talkie, rather than the main police radio […]
Yearly Archives: 1998
Within hours of the incident at Congressman Frank Riggs’ Eureka office, state, national and international news media were broadcasting a thirty second taped “bite” from the last part of a forty-five-minute stand-off between Humboldt County Sheriff’s Deputies, Eureka Police Officers and a group of protesters. Following the filing of a […]
A Clovis police officer, with the aid of PORAC Legal Defense Fund attorneys Bennett & Sharpe, Inc., successfully appealed an allegation that he was insubordinate in refusing to attend counseling. The matter began as a domestic quarrel, resulting in a report by the officer’s wife that he had assaulted her. […]
Oxnard Officer Robert Flinn withstood a heavy assault is U.S. District Court last month. The jury voted 11—1 for acquittal, following the lead of a state court jury in Ventura County. The trial was bitterly fought by the United States Attorney’s office. It spared no expense and mounted a formidable […]
On July 20, 1998, in a 3—2 decision against the City of Alhambra Fire Department, the Alhambra Civil Service commission ruled in favor of fire engineer/paramedic Ronald Thurston in his appeal of discipline imposed upon him by the Alhambra Fire Department. Thurston was disciplined with a six-month pay step reduction […]