Posted by Alison Berry Wilkinson If you picked up today’s newspaper and saw your name, employment classification and exact earnings (salary, plus benefits, plus overtime) published on the front page, would you feel violated? Most police officers would. But, routinely, newspapers are asking for such information, local agencies are providing […]
Although each year brings on many surprises and challenges, none of us at Rains, Lucia & Wilkinson (RL&W) could have ever envisioned the onslaught of critical incidents that occurred in the first week of this new year. Although responding to critical incidents are nothing new to the members of this […]
A terminated Southern California dispatcher was reinstated to her position as a result of a negotiated settlement, which occurred during the middle of an administrative appeal to determine if she should be reinstated. The dispatcher, known to be emotional when given good or bad news, had applied for a promotion […]
Posted by David J. Garcia City of Woodland Police Officer Gina Bell will return to work after the city’s Personnel Board cleared her of alleged failure to properly investigate a traffic accident and dishonesty. In a 25-page decision issued November 8, 2004, the board determined “none of the charges are […]
On August 10, 2004, Division Two of the First District Court of Appeal filed its decision in Michael Seligsohn and Ray Castillo v. Dr. Philip R. Day, Jr., Peter Goldstein, Linda R. Jackson, and City College of San Francisco (2004) 121 Cal. App. 4th 516, a case in which the […]