The Plain View Project, which collected Facebook posts and comments made by current and former police officers from across the United States, became publicly available in 2017. The database contained over 3,000 posts attributed to Philadelphia police officers, 593 of which were tied to the plaintif
Rhonda Staton was hired as a police officer by the City and County of Butte-Silver Bow (BSB), Montana in 2001, and she was promoted to detective in 2008. In 2017, she received a verbal reprimand for tardiness, and another in 2018 for refusing to investigate underage drinking at a football game. In
In the summer of 2021, Deputy Sheriff R.L. and his wife attended a party together where R.L. drank and became angry. After they returned home, R.L.’s wife contacted friends and told them that R.L. was drunk and belligerent, having put her in handcuffs and threatened to arrest her. The friends notifi
Nick Martens was a police officer in the city of Marion, Iowa. Martens also served as the president of the Marion Policeman’s Protective Association. In that capacity, Martens sent an email to management reporting a complaint on behalf of a Union member which allegedly contained factual inaccuracie
Leroy Williams, a special police officer with the District of Columbia’s Department of General Services (DGS), was terminated in August 2019 for conduct relating to two unauthorized traffic stops the previous March. Upon receiving a final notice of separation, Williams was presented with three optio
The Paterson Deputy Fire Chiefs Association represents Deputy Fire Chiefs in the City of Paterson, New Jersey. For about ten years, the City has been designated as a “city in distress” by the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA). As a result, the City entered into a Memorandum of Under
In 2014, King County began to signal to the King County Corrections Guild that it wished to include mandatory overtime in the “essential functions form” that it had been providing to doctors for the purposes of assessing disability accommodations. Historically, mandatory overtime, along with volun
Thad Brockett worked in the Effingham County, Illinois Sheriff’s Department from July 1996 until December 2014. From 2012-2014, Brockett was promoted by Sheriff John Monnet to serve as Operations Sergeant, supervising and overseeing the jail, telecommunications, and court security personnel. Righ
The Newark Police Superior Officers’ Association (SOA) alleged that the City of Newark violated the New Jersey Employer-Employee Relations Act by refusing to negotiate in good faith for a successor agreement.The most recent agreement between the City and SOA spanned from 2013 to 2015 and was exten
Kate Adams was hired by the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department in 1994, and by March 2020, she had worked her way up to Chief of Police for the City of Rancho Cordova in California. Her time in the position, however, was short-lived, as Adams was forced to resign the following year after allegat
In 2015, the Internal Affairs Unit of the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety in California opened an investigation into David Meinhardt, an officer who also happened to be the president of the Sunnyvale Public Safety Officers’ Association. IA was following up on a complaint that Meinhardt was usi
Like many municipalities across the country, the City of Los Angeles declared an emergency in March 2020 in response to COVID-19. The following August, the City passed an ordinance that required all City employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, request an exemption, or be subject to “appropriate
In 2023, Wesley Shifflett, a police officer with the Fairfax County Police Department in Virginia, shot and killed Timothy McCree Johnson outside of the Tysons Corner Center Mall. Johnson was suspected of shoplifting. As Shifflett gave chase, Shifflett alleged, Johnson “quickly stopped his flight, t
Gregory Moliere served as a police officer in the Buffalo Police Department in Texas. Despite department policy to the contrary, Moliere engaged in a high-speed chase while a civilian was riding along in his patrol vehicle. The chase resulted in an accident that damaged the patrol vehicle. Moliere r
American Federation of Government Employees Local 3584, representing a unit of correctional workers, made an information request to the Department of Justice’s Office of Internal Affairs on behalf of its members at FCI Dublin, a low-security federal prison in California. The Union believed that the
On March 9, 2020, the Governor of Illinois issued a Disaster Proclamation, and on March 13, the President declared a National Emergency related to COVID-19. The Proclamation declared that COVID-19 can lead to “serious, long-term complications in some cases.” According to the Centers for Disease Cont
In March 2019, Aaron Shirley, a police sergeant for the Clarendon Hills Police Department in Illinois, was injured on duty while assisting paramedics in restraining a minor lying on a cot. While restraining the minor, Shirley felt a “pop” in his right shoulder and later experienced severe pain and d
In 2017, the Teamsters were conducting an organizing campaign among the commanders in the Cook County Department of Corrections, a subdivision of the Cook County Sheriff’s Office. The Sheriff’s Office opposed the inclusion of commanders, who they viewed as managerial employees. In August of that yea
The Texas Supreme Court recently upheld a provision in the Austin Firefighters Association collective bargaining agreement that provides paid leave for “Association Business.” The case, Roger Borgelt, et al. v. Austin Firefighters Association, IAFF Local 975, et al., involved a challenge brought by
Jasmine Johnson-Purnell is a Licensed Practical Nurse employed by the Washington State Department of Corrections at the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton. She was part of a nonsupervisory unit represented by Teamsters Local 117. In January 2024, Johnson-Purnell was assigned new medication car
Ryan Pownall is a Philadelphia police officer who was terminated and criminally charged after fatally shooting David Jones following a dispute over Jones’ operation of a dirt bike. Terrance Freeman, who was riding in the back seat of Pownall’s police vehicle, witnessed the shooting. Jones was taken
In January 2019, the Nickerson Post, a banquet hall in Quincy, Massachusetts, hired Paul Keenan and Christopher Bulger to provide private police detail at a concert. Keenan was chief of the City’s police department, and Bulger was an officer in that department. That evening, the Nickerson Post was o
Until 2011, Article V of the charter of the City of Palo Alto, California required binding interest arbitration for certain labor disputes with its public safety unions. Facing a budget crisis in 2010 and 2011, the City council proposed modifying Article V to require cheaper dispute resolution proc
Troy Carter was a correctional officer and shift supervisor with the rank of lieutenant at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Southern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility in West Virginia. Carter received a call from Major Larry Warden in May 2022 “informing him that he was being suspend