ANDREW M. DAWSON Partner KIMBERLY D. RILEY Partner Dawson & Riley, LLP A San Gabriel Police dispatcher was terminated in March 2017 regarding alleged misconduct that had occurred in October 2015. The Department knew of the alleged misconduct and failed to notify her of its proposed discipline until December 2016. […]
PAUL BIRD Attorney Messing Adam & Jasmine LLP After an accomplished 23-year career as a police captain, the last words one expects to read in a letter from the city manager are: “You’ve been terminated because you are a liar.” Yet that was Captain Mark Gagan’s fate, laid out in […]
SUSAN R. JERICH Attorney at Law Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver, PC I once represented a client who worked as a motor officer in Riverside County. Years of riding a motorcycle had caused significant and permanent injury to his hands and arms. Finally, after grinning and bearing it […]
On Monday, April 2, attorney Bill Rapoport unexpectedly passed away after suffering a heart attack. Bill had been representing police officers in disciplinary and criminal cases for almost 40 years, and was highly respected and loved by all of the staff at the Legal Defense Fund, as well as by […]
Doubling Down on Incomplete Investigations JOHN R. KRISTOFFERSON Associate Attorney Adams, Ferrone & Ferrone, APC The San Gabriel Chief of Police, sitting on the stand in the San Gabriel City Hall, simply said, “No.” In a termination appeal hearing before the San Gabriel Civil Service Commission, the Chief had been […]