JOSHUA A. OLANDER Associate Attorney Mastagni Holstedt, APC In a major victory upholding the right to privacy for peace officers, the Appellate Division of the Santa Clara Superior Court in Ryan Saunders v. Superior Court blocked the release of private text messages exchanged between several Santa Clara County correctional deputies. […]
KEN YUWILER Partner Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver, PC Dan Carr was a supervising welfare fraud investigator with the County of San Bernardino. He was investigated by the County for alleged misconduct and, after a superficial investigation, the County terminated his employment. Having the benefit of LDF coverage, […]
MICHAEL A. MORGUESS Associate Attorney Castillo Harper, APC The tension between a prosecutor’s duties to disclose exculpatory evidence (so-called Brady material) to a criminal defendant and the police department’s obligations, as a member of the prosecutorial team, to maintain the confidentiality of material in peace officer personnel records absent a […]
JUDITH A. ODBERT Senior Associate Attorney JOSHUA A. OLANDER Associate Attorney Mastagni Holstedt, APC These are disconcerting times, when law enforcement faces criticism unparalleled in our nation’s history. In June 2015, Officer Joshua Klinge of the South Lake Tahoe Police Department was in an officer-involved shooting that resulted in the […]
MICHAEL A. MORGUESS Associate Attorney Castillo Harper, APC A San Bernardino County Superior Court has found that a Civil Service Commission’s findings upholding a termination were against the weight of the evidence presented at the administrative hearing and that the Department violated pre-disciplinary due process rights (i.e., Skelly rights) by […]