Posted by JUSTIN BUFFINGTON In March 2010, during the difficult time in the aftermath of the Fruitvale Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station shooting of Oscar Grant by Officer Johannes Mehserle, a BART police sergeant responded to a call of an assault with a bottle, a deadly weapon, committed by […]
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Posted by B.J. PIERCE, ESQ. Associate AttorneyMastagni, Holstedt, Amick, Miller & Johnsen On August 22, 2011, the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Authority conceded electronic files its Police Department maintained as an “Early Warning System” or “IA Profile” database constituted personnel files subject to the protections of the Public Safety […]
Posted by Harry Stern Arbitrator Michael D. Rappaport has ordered the reinstatement of Oakland Police Officer Andrew Blue, who was improperly fired based on erroneous claims that he had lied during a family law proceeding in which he was acting as his own counsel. The Arbitrator required the City to […]
Posted by CHRISTOPHER W. MILLER In a rare and significant case involving limitations on speech directed at police, a Manteca judge has issued permanent restraining orders prohibiting the brother of a parolee shot last June from harassing the involved officer. The orders also prohibit him from having any contact with […]
Posted by COREY W. GLAVE A judge has ordered that two more Hawthorne police officers are to have their files cleared of discipline and be paid back pay with interest-based on violations of the Public Safety Officers’ Procedural Bill of Rights Act (POBRA). In the first case, Officer Kim Iler […]