FRED ROWBOTHAM Chairman On behalf of the Board of Trustees of the PORAC Legal Defense Fund, I look forward to welcoming everyone to this year’s PORAC Conference in Anaheim, California, during the third week of November. Over the course of this past year, your LDF trustees and staff have been […]
Yearly Archives: 2016
SEAN D. HOWELL Senior Associate Attorney Mastagni Holstedt, APC Twelve-year veteran officer Jason Miller was returned to the Canine Unit and given a new canine partner after appealing the Department’s decision to remove him for allegations of excessive use of force. Miller was a new canine handler, having started training […]
RICHARD P. FISHER Senior Labor and Employment Counsel Goyette & Associates In a significant decision affecting every correctional sheriff’s deputy in California, the Court of Appeal for the Fifth Appellate District (Case No. F071257) ruled on August 11 that custodial deputies under Penal Code Section 830.1(c) “are exempt from the […]
ROGER D. WILSON Attorney Rains Lucia Stern, PC For Part 1 of this article, please see the September issue of PORAC Law Enforcement News The Arbitration Detective Peterson’s termination appeal was presented to the arbitrator over four days in January 2016. During the arbitration, the Department’s counsel attempted to present […]
ANDREW M. DAWSON Partner Dawson & Riley, LLP A police chief is overturned once again. This time, he terminated a police officer after the one-year statute of limitations outlined in Government Code Section 3304(d) had run out. With the assistance of Dawson & Riley, LLP, the officer was able to […]