KIMBERLY RILEY Partner ANDREW M. DAWSON Partner Dawson & Riley, LLP Once again, California City’s continued mismanagement has been called into question. This time, the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) ordered the reinstatement of three police employees — a police detective, police officer and reserve police officer/jailer — based on […]
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KASEY A. CASTILLO, ESQ. Partner Castillo Harper, APC Matthew Dages was hired as a police officer for the city of La Mesa and began his law enforcement career in August 2018. During his tenure with the La Mesa Police Department, Officer Dages was considered a “model” officer who was recognized […]
Gary M. Messing Partner Matthew Taylor Associate Messing Adam & Jasmine LLP It is worth constantly restating that the law does not protect personal communications over an employer’s electronic systems. The best rule is always to refrain from sending or receiving messages with confidential, personal information on work devices, or […]
PAUL Q. GOYETTE Founder Goyette, Ruano & Thompson, Inc. After almost five weeks of trial, a San Joaquin jury acquitted Stanislaus County Deputy Justin Wall of voluntary manslaughter, a case that arose from an officer-involved shooting in 2017. If convicted, Deputy Wall could have faced up to 11 years in […]
DAVID E. MASTAGNI Partner Mastagni Holstedt, APC On September 30, 2021, Governor Newsom signed into law AB 490 (Gipson), which “prohibit[s] a law enforcement agency from authorizing techniques or transport methods that involve a substantial risk of positional asphyxia, as defined.”1 This law is an expansion of AB 1196 (Gipson), […]