Zachery Lopes Attorneys Rains, Lucia, Stern, St. Phalle and Silver, PC. In early 2019, over a dozen lawsuits in as many counties were filed by law enforcement employee associations challenging the intended “retroactive” application of Senate Bill (SB) 1421 — arguing that the law was not intended to allow […]
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ROGER D. WILSON Senior Trial Counsel Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver, PC In the last issue of PORAC Law Enforcement News, you were introduced to the tragic accident that was compounded by the criminal charging of Jared Mullis, a detective with the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office. We last […]
ROBERT RABE, ESQ. Associate Attorney Stone Busailah, LLP On September 3, 2017, Yolo County Sheriff’s Sergeant Machado detained the occupants of a boating vessel on the Sacramento River for speed-related violations of the Harbors and Navigation Code. During this detention, Machado made contact with defendant Gutierrez, the operator of the […]
LAURIE M. BURGESS Attorney Messing Adam & Jasmine LLP As many readers know, labor relations between local public agencies and their employees and labor unions are governed by the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (MMBA), Government Code Section 3500, et seq. When MMBA was enacted in 1968, and until 2000, whenever employees or […]
ROGER D. WILSON Senior Trial Counsel Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver, PC More than three years after the tragic death of his friend and mentor, Fresno County Sheriff’s Sergeant Rod Lucas, it took the jury just over one hour to find former Fresno County Detective Jared Mullis not […]