FRED ROWBOTHAM Chairman Regardless of the position we occupy, be it with PORAC or our own local association, we should continuously strive to improve it and leave the members we serve better off for having allowed us to fill that role. I have done my best to employ this thinking […]
Yearly Archives: 2015
ALISON BERRY WILKINSON Principal Attorney Berry Wilkinson Law Group On August 24, the California Supreme Court created a limited exception to the right of a firefighter to review and respond to notes kept by a supervisor for later use in preparing personnel evaluations. In Poole v. Orange County Fire Authority, […]
HARRY S. STERN Managing Principal Attorney Rains Lucia Stern, PC Arbitrator Robin Matt has overturned the termination of a Concord officer and ordered full back pay. This decision comes after a Superior Court judge dismissed felony criminal charges on the same allegations. Nobody is in favor of domestic violence — […]
ANDREW M. DAWSON Partner Dawson & Riley, LLP The Inglewood Police Department terminated a police officer based primarily upon findings of fault made by the California Highway Patrol’s Multi-Disciplinary Action Investigation Team (MAIT) for a fatal traffic collision. However, CHP MAIT made inaccurate conclusions and failed to include a significant […]
BILL HADDEN Partner Silver, Hadden, Silver & Levine MICHAEL P. STONE Partner Stone Busailah, LLP On June 23, a mistrial was declared in federal district court in Los Angeles when a jury of 10 women and two men announced that it was hopelessly deadlocked in the trial of two Santa […]