MARK WILSON Associate Attorney Mastagni Holstedt, A.P.C. In a lengthy, scathing opinion, Arbitrator Luella Nelson reversed the Lake County Sheriff’s Department’s termination of two deputies for alleged dishonesty. Arbitrator Nelson addressed Sheriff Martin’s bias, Skelly violations, unlawful Brady disclosures and the contrived discipline process. While only an advisory decision, given […]
HARRY S. STERN Managing Principal Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver, PC A Good Cop For six years, Mike Lewelling toiled in anonymity at the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department (SFSD). He worked in the jails. He worked in the courts. He worked wherever they sent him. By all accounts, […]
ROBERT RABE Associate Stone Busailah, LLP Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs v. County of Orange, PERB Decision No. 2657-M (Issued July 15, 2019) In this most recent case, the question was whether the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) had jurisdiction to hear claims brought by “employee organizations” composed of […]
KIMBERLY D. RILEY Attorney DAWSON & RILEY, LLP On the eve of hearing and after a nearly two-year battle, the Cypress Police Department reinstated a police services officer to her former position, withdrew all allegations of misconduct and awarded her full back pay after she was wrongfully accused of time […]
MATTHEW TAYLOR Associate MESSING ADAM & JASMINE LLP It is well known that public-sector employees have the right to union representation during an investigatory interview. But does this right also apply when an employer, rather than asking questions to elicit a verbal response from an employee, directs the employee to […]