When allegations of discriminatory treatment were found to be not sustained, Officer Earl Titman, an eight-year veteran of the Novato Police Department, thought that the Internal Affairs investigation into the incident was behind him. “Not so,” said the City of Novato Police Advisory and Review Board. Dissatisfied with the results […]
A Solano County sheriff’s deputy has successfully fought off a “work agreement” proposed by his supervisors as a disciplinary action for sleeping in court. Deputy Guy Bristol, assigned as a courtroom bailiff, received a counseling memo last June because a judge reported the deputy was falling asleep in court. His […]
Hearing Officer Ronald Hoh recently overturned a five-day suspension that was brought against Calaveras County Detective Jack Smith. Smith was represented by Paul Q. Goyette of Goyette & Adams. The Sheriff’s Department suspended Smith for five days for allegations that he sexually harassed another Calaveras County employee. The complaining employee […]
Arbitrator Alexander Cohn recently exonerated Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Sergeant Steven Gong from the allegations of excessive force and negligent supervision levied against him by the County’s Department of Correction (DOC) in the Joseph Leitner incident of July 25, 1995. Arbitrator Cohn issued a written decision on August 5, 1997. […]
Arbitrator William Riker has overturned the termination of Shasta County Deputy Sheriff, reinstating him with back pay. The case arose in April of 1996 when the Shasta County Sheriff’s Department initiated an investigation against Deputy John Patrick Kropholler for alleged improprieties in testing a female inmate for being under the […]