In a strongly worded decision issued on April 20, 2001, Judge Robert H. Gallivan, of the Orange County Superior Court, issued a preliminary injunction against the City of Seal Beach and the Seal Beach Police Department, ordering them to refrain from taking any punitive action (including discipline and holding any […]
Posted by The First Preliminary Hearing Chamberlain’s ordeal began in March 1999, when he took disciplinary action against a female inmate named Armstrong. Armstrong became angry at Chamberlain and made numerous statements that she was going to file a complaint against him to try to get him fired. Ultimately, Armstrong […]
Michael Fassari is a deputy sheriff III with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. He is delighted to have successfully concluded the oldest open Legal Defense Fund case. Ten years ago, Fassari was part of a team which was serving a search warrant. During the incident, he was involved in […]
Redondo Beach management was involved in a series of high-profile disputes with various employee groups. In one incident, three city department heads were caught in an audio/visual room surreptitiously watching a meeting of the Redondo Beach POA (RBPOA). Thereafter, the city terminated the city manager, Will Kirchhoff. Kirchhoff not satisfied […]
When Sonoma County Correctional Officer, Jeff DiCello, wrote a letter of dissatisfaction to Sonoma County Independent newspaper, he didn’t even intend for his letter to be published. DiCello only wanted to voice his disgust with a series of articles about the jail which implied that a number of inmate deaths […]