KIMBERLY D. RILEY Attorney DAWSON & RILEY, LLP On the eve of hearing and after a nearly two-year battle, the Cypress Police Department reinstated a police services officer to her former position, withdrew all allegations of misconduct and awarded her full back pay after she was wrongfully accused of time […]
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MATTHEW TAYLOR Associate MESSING ADAM & JASMINE LLP It is well known that public-sector employees have the right to union representation during an investigatory interview. But does this right also apply when an employer, rather than asking questions to elicit a verbal response from an employee, directs the employee to […]
MICHAEL L. RAINS Principal Attorney Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver, PC For the background of this case, see Part 1 in the August issue of PORAC Law Enforcement News. The Trial If the initial charging of Officer Brad Alford was hasty and ill-thought-out, the thought given to prosecuting […]
MICHAEL L. RAINS Principal Attorney Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver, PC Any police officer who wants to know how the power of video evidence in a use-of-force case can potentially derail a career and throw a police family into despair should talk to Rocklin Police Officer Brad Alford. […]
MICHAEL A. MORGUESS Associate Attorney Castillo Harper, APC Last year, a San Bernardino County Superior Court judge found that the San Bernardino County Civil Service Commission’s findings upholding a termination were against the weight of the evidence presented at the administrative hearing, and that the Department violated pre-disciplinary due process […]