JEFFREY R.A. EDWARDS, ESQ. Senior Associate Mastagni Holstedt, APC In a win for public safety labor associations, the California Supreme Court ruled that public officials cannot hide communications about public business in their personal accounts. The court also took care to shield public employees from unwarranted intrusion in their personal […]
FRED ROWBOTHAM Chairman Many of our members can empower themselves to shape how their rates will look. Plan I, which most of our California member associations are enrolled in, is an “experience” or “usage”-based plan, with regard to your LDF rate. What this means is that your rate for the […]
KEN YUWILER Partner Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver As our readers might recall from prior articles, Robert Kirsch was a custody deputy in the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department who was accused of excessive use of force on an inmate. After he was terminated by the Department, and […]
WILLIAM J. HADDEN Partner Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver, PC When Brandon Palma concluded his eight-year commitment with the U.S. Army, achieving the rank of sergeant, he knew exactly where he wanted to go next. Both he and his then soon-to-be bride were part of families from the […]
FRED ROWBOTHAM Chairman Your PORAC Legal Defense Fund trustees and staff have been hard at work addressing many items that have come up recently, and others that have only now become more fully developed. One of the more pressing issues pertains to Proposition 66, the death penalty reform initiative that […]