In what has to be one of the most astounding rulings in the annals of LDF cases, a Culver City arbitrator has exonerated two Riverside police officers in the sensationalized December 1998 shooting of Tyisha Miller and awarded them full back pay and benefits, but refused to order the city […]
Yearly Archives: 2002
Posted by Michael Langton Sgt. Barry Roseman On January 3, 2002, a Carson City, Nevada District Court denied a petition for judicial review filed by the Airport Authority of Washoe County (AAWC) regarding the termination of two police sergeants. District Court Judge Mike Griffin ruled the decision of the Employee […]
Posted by Robert W. Krause To remedy this anomaly, PORAC and others helped to get an amendment to the POBR passed. That amendment came in the form of Gov. Code Section 3304(d), which is set forth below: “(d) Except as provided in this subdivision and subdivision (g), no punitive action, […]
Posted by Alison Berry Wilkinson Almost immediately, a question was raised concerning whether this new language only prohibited evidence about forced lie detector tests, or whether it broadly prohibited all lie detector evidence in administrative hearings – even where the peace officer voluntarily subjected his or herself to the test, […]
The faithful readership of PORAC News will recall articles in recent issues about two Irvine officers who were ordered reinstated after former Police Chief Charles Brobeck terminated them in a purge of the department’s Special Enforcement Team (SET). The third officer terminated in that purge, 17-year veteran Gerald Head, received […]