Posted by Leo Tamisiea Santa Clara County Corrections Officer Randy Robinson was returned to work at the main jail in San Jose last month ending a 27-month ordeal. The officer was reinstated by order of Arbitrator Alexander Cohn, who overturned a termination decision by the Department of Corrections (DOC) and […]
Yearly Archives: 2003
Posted by Kasey Christopher Clark David E. Mastagni The alleged bases of Farnsworth’s termination were a failure to properly report an on-duty vehicle accident, commingling of evidence, permitting an informant to drive without a license, alleged insubordination in Internal Affairs (IA), and dishonesty in the preparation of a number of […]
Agent Ricardo Salazar is an 11-year veteran of the U.S. Border Patrol assigned to the San Diego Sector. The first eight years of Salazar’s career with the Border Patrol was unremarkable from a discipline standpoint, and he was consistently rated by his supervisors as either “outstanding” or “fully successful” on […]
Posted by Harry Stern Arbitrator Joe Henderson has returned Oakland Police Officer Kwang Lee to work after the department fired him in April 2001. At the conclusion of a three-day evidentiary hearing, Henderson determined that the city of Oakland terminated Lee without just cause. Lee grew up in Milpitas and, […]
On March 26, 2001, Jason Schechterle, a 30-year-old Phoenix police officer, was responding to a call, a routine event on his tour of duty that evening. The routine tour came to an abrupt end when the 1998 Ford Crown Victoria he was driving was rear-ended by a taxicab. The Crown […]