Illinois is amid a law enforcement shortage. Officials say it is not just an issue in the Land of Lincoln, but nationwide. Illinois police officers are looking to recruit as many officers as they can since many departments are seeing a decline in officers. “With that said, a lot of those people are getting older […]
Since the start of the year, 223 Detroit police officers have left the department. That’s almost double last year’s number. Roughly half of those officers went to other departments. “We have a number of officers that are resigning or retiring maybe earlier than they would have to get out of law enforcement altogether, and then we are […]
Only six weeks after a police oversight panel recommended firing a controversial Miami police captain, another board tasked with recommending discipline in police cases reached the opposite conclusion. Miami’s five-member Disciplinary Review Board unanimously disagreed with nine reprimands handed down to Miami Police Capt. Javier Ortiz by an internal affairs supervisor who investigated his off-duty […]
It is hard to overstate the impact on public safety employee free speech rights produced by the 2006 decision in Garcetti v. Ceballos. In Garcetti, a deeply-divided Supreme Court overturned more than 40 years of public employee free speech law. The decision held that if speech is “ordinarily within the job duties” of the public […]
Alison Schaber works for Ramsey County in Minnesota and is the president of the Ramsey County Deputy Federation. Under the Federation’s collective bargaining agreement, the County is required to provide a matching contribution to the employee’s deferred compensation account of up to $25 per month per contributing employee. The County did not send the employer […]
James MacColl, a police officer with Wilmington, Delaware, shot a fleeing carjacking suspect in 2019. During the resulting deadly force investigation, MacColl turned in his Department-issued gun for testing. The ballistics results showed a mismatch between the grooves on the test rounds and the grooves on the bullets recovered from the scene. Closer inspection revealed […]
Jaime Quinn was an officer with the Sunbury, Pennsylvania Police Department. The Department provided her with a cell phone, which was to be used only to assist her in fulfilling her duties as a police officer, except in certain emergency situations or with departmental approval. Despite this requirement, Quinn gave her Department-issued phone to her […]
Erika Aguirre was a corrections officer for the Cook County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) in Illinois. She and Deisy Jaimes had been in a relationship since 2011. They eventually moved in together and got engaged. By 2013, however, their relationship had deteriorated. For example, in one incident Aguirre threatened to kill Deisy and claimed she could […]
Sergeant Silvia Cotriss worked for the City of Roswell, Georgia. The City began investigating Cotriss when it received a complaint that she was flying a Confederate battle flag in her front yard, sometimes with her police cruiser present. During the investigation, Cotriss admitted that there had been two Confederate-like flags separately displayed on a flagpole […]
Delandro Washington is a police officer in Shreveport, Louisiana. The Department received a complaint from an individual concerning Washington. Washington and other witnesses were interviewed, and an internal affairs investigator prepared a report with his findings, which did not conclude that the complaints against Washington should be sustained. The IA report was sent to the […]
Local 2297 of the IAFF represents firefighters working for the North Collier Fire Control and Rescue District in Florida. The District issued a termination notice to bargaining unit member Mark Batten. At the time of his termination, Batten was subject to the terms of a Last Chance Agreement (LCA). The LCA provided that Batten could […]
The New York State Correctional Officer and Police Benevolent Association represents corrections officers working for the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOC). Over the years, the DOC has been sued by the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) and other organizations challenging the frequency, duration, and severity of solitary confinement in […]
Section § 89C-3(b)(2) of Hawai’i Revised Statutes requires government employers to adjust the benefits and pay of civil service employees excluded from collective bargaining to ensure that the benefits and pay of the excluded employees are at least equal to the compensation and benefit packages of their subordinates covered by collective bargaining. A group of […]
The City of Warren, Michigan employs 20 people as dispatchers and dispatch supervisors – 16 women and four men. The City’s main police station houses the dispatch center where plaintiffs work, as well as a jail. A group of dispatchers challenged the City’s General Order 19-04 governing arrest procedures for prisoners taken into custody by […]
