Posted by LDF Panel Attorney Bill Rapoport On August 21, 2004, Officer Edward Rivers, Jr., by invitation, attended a 21st birthday party for the sister of an East Palo Alto Police Department Explorer Scout Eddi Tapia-Torres in East Palo Alto. Prior to that night, Rivers had been an East Palo […]
On Friday, January 7, 2005, Janon Mirabella, a Yolo County deputy sheriff, received a Notice of Proposed Termination via certified mail. Although Mirabella was off work with a doctor’s note, the Notice proposed to terminate Mirabella for unauthorized absences from work. The Notice instructed Mirabella that her only opportunity to […]
Posted by William R. Rapoport In the June 2005 PORAC Law Enforcement News article on San Carlos Police Officer Gilbert Granado, I outlined the struggle that he was having regaining his position with the San Carlos Police Department after his termination in November 2001. Granado spent 13 ½ years with […]
Posted by Harry S. Stern Palo Alto is a town of contrasts and contradictions. Stanford University is here and the streets are lined with trees and multi-million dollar homes. But Palo Alto also has an undercurrent of radical politics and a not-insignificant crime problem. Caught in between these colliding worlds […]
Posted by Alison Berry Wilkinson If you have no medical or psychological problems, but simply a perceived bad attitude, can that cost you your job? Apparently so, if you work for the San Mateo Police Department. It all began when Sergeant Antonio Giusto, a 15-year veteran with an unblemished record […]