Posted by Harry S. Stern Background: Arbitrator Paul D. Staudohar has reinstated Contra Costa County Deputy Sheriff Sean Yates with full back pay and benefits, ruling that the county had insufficient proof when it fired him based on an allegation that he stole $5,000 while searching the home of two […]
Posted by Bob Krause Recently I had the privilege of being asked to author an article dealing with Government Code Section 3304(d), the relatively recent statute of limitations in bringing administrative actions against public safety officers. At that writing, a number of 3304(d) cases were pending (PORAC News Vol. 34, […]
Lieutenant Obtains Injunction Preventing Department from Firing Him Based Upon Tax Return Deductions
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 […]