In a case testing the limits of the financial disclosure and injunctive relief provisions of the Public Safety Officers’ Procedural Bill of Rights Act (POBR), a Siskiyou County sheriff’s lieutenant has won a court order prohibiting the county from using information in his state and federal income tax returns as […]
Posted by Christopher W. Miller, Esq. The allegations that led to criminal charges against Barcenas were made last May by a high school student the officer had counseled repeatedly throughout the school year about her habitual truancy and off-campus criminal activity. The student claimed Barcenas had made inappropriate comments to […]
In what has to be one of the most astounding rulings in the annals of LDF cases, a Culver City arbitrator has exonerated two Riverside police officers in the sensationalized December 1998 shooting of Tyisha Miller and awarded them full back pay and benefits, but refused to order the city […]
Posted by Michael Langton Sgt. Barry Roseman On January 3, 2002, a Carson City, Nevada District Court denied a petition for judicial review filed by the Airport Authority of Washoe County (AAWC) regarding the termination of two police sergeants. District Court Judge Mike Griffin ruled the decision of the Employee […]
Posted by Robert W. Krause To remedy this anomaly, PORAC and others helped to get an amendment to the POBR passed. That amendment came in the form of Gov. Code Section 3304(d), which is set forth below: “(d) Except as provided in this subdivision and subdivision (g), no punitive action, […]
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