In October 2019, the police chief for the City of Elgin, Illinois announced officer shift assignments for the following calendar year. Officers chose their vacation days for 2020 based on seniority. Brett Essick, who had been a City police officer for over a decade, was assigned to the midnight shif
Michael Shreffler started working as an officer in the Kankakee, Illinois Police Department in 2009. From 2013 through 2017, he received several written reprimands and one-day suspensions for violating various Department rules. Among other issues, Shreffler had posted offensive Facebook comments and
John Peters worked as a trooper for the Louisiana State Police (LSP) for 27 years. In October 2020, Colonel Lamar Davis, who is black, was appointed Superintendent of the LSP. After taking office, Davis publicly announced that he would “purge the culture problem of racist policing in Troop F.” Peter
Steven Allen was a deputy in New Jersey with the Gloucester County Sheriff’s Department. In December 2016, Allen was assaulted by a fellow officer, while on duty, that resulted in surgeries for ulnar nerve decompression in his dominant hand and a cervical disc replacement for which he was on leave f
David Hockett began working in the Seattle Police Department’s (SPD) West Precinct in the early 2000s. He sat in an office next to the precinct’s enclosed parking garage, where officers often leave patrol vehicles idling. Carbon monoxide (CO) from the vehicles entered the office through a small hole
Craig Royal is a lieutenant with the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). He was suspended twice for alleged misconduct. First, in February 2015, MPD alleged that Royal failed to follow proper procedures when he investigated potential domestic violence while off-duty. He receiv
In 2001, Tyler Harrison began his employment with the Holmes County Sheriff’s Department in Florida as a correctional officer. He eventually became a certified law enforcement officer, achieved the rank of lieutenant, and oversaw narcotics investigations.Harrison was diagnosed with depression in Feb
Per the policies of the New Jersey Department of Corrections, an employee on leave without pay who receives health and prescription drug benefits provided by the State Health Benefits Program shall be required to pay the outlined contributions and shall be billed by the State for these contributions
Thomas Noon and Christopher Skidmore were police officers with the City of Platte Woods, Missouri. They raised concerns about the performance of Police Chief James Kerns over the course of their employment. Skidmore raised issues to Kerns about faulty radar equipment and unmaintained police vehicles
Jeremy Clawson is a black firefighter in the City of Albany, New York. He began his career with the Albany Fire Department (AFD) in 1993, was promoted to lieutenant in 2005, and to captain in 2010. In 2019, Clawson was offered a provisional promotion to battalion chief, the third highest-ranking pos
Tyler Copeland is a transgender man who began working for the Georgia Department of Corrections around 2014. At the time, he identified as female, which was his assigned gender at birth. A year after beginning his career with the Department, Copeland was transferred to Rogers State Prison (RSP), a
Shelley Pritchett began her career as a Corrections Officer at the New Jersey Juvenile Justice Center (JJC) in 2006. In June 2011, she broke up a fight between two inmates, resulting in significant injuries to her back, knee, and neck. Pritchett went on Workers’ Compensation leave and began medical
After a career as a deputy sheriff, Charles Aldean worked as a police officer with the City of Woodbury, Minnesota from 2017 until 2020. During his tenure, Aldean enrolled in the City’s health insurance plan with his wife and two children listed as dependents. Aldean experienced health problems at w
Logan Malik was a police officer in Washingtonville, Ohio who was convicted of falsely portraying himself as a U.S. Marshal to several members of the public over the course of one evening. First, he told a store employee at a Macy’s jewelry counter in Boardman, Ohio that he was part of a fugitive t
On May 3, 2017, Jesse Smith was driving near a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania school zone, when Robert Kramer, an off-duty police officer, pulled up alongside him. Smith alleges that Kramer aimed a handgun at him, then drove away when Smith demanded that he pull over. Smith reported the incident to 911 a
Joshua Young was a corrections sergeant at the Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC). In or around 2020, the Department implemented mandatory Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training for its employees, consisting of several online modules to be completed on employees’ personal computers.
The Pennsylvania State Corrections Officers Association (PSCOA) is the exclusive bargaining representative for correctional officers employed by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC). Maximilian Kauert is a corrections officer at a state prison (Somerset) and served in several official u
David Tortora is a detective with the Bergenfield Police Department (BPD) in Bergenfield Borough, New Jersey. He also has served as the president of the local Police Benevolent Association since 2018. Between 2017 and 2022, the BPD and the Union attempted, unsuccessfully, to negotiate a new contrac
Albany County, New York negotiated a series of one-year contracts with the New York State Unified Court System to provide security services through its sheriff’s department for the county courthouse. In early September 2021, the County received a notice from the Office of Court Administration (OCA)
From Indiana:Question: In the city where I am employed, when an officer accepts a promotion to sergeant, or a sergeant accepts a promotion to lieutenant, they lose all of their seniority rights (vacation bidding, shift preference, forced overtime details). The fire department in the same city does n
David Foriska is a correctional officer working at Allegheny County Jail in Pennsylvania. Foriska was terminated for alleged misconduct, and reinstated on September 16, 2018, pursuant to an arbitrator’s order. The award also provided that Foriska “shall be made whole for any and all losses, includin
John Catanzara served as a police officer with the Chicago Police Department from January 1995 until his resignation on November 16, 2021. Prior to his election as president of Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge #7 in May 2020, Catanzara had been investigated by the Civilian Office of Police Accountab
In December 2022, firefighters for the City of Biloxi, Mississippi sued the City for withheld longevity payments in violation of the FLSA. In May 2023, the parties reached a tentative settlement agreement that the City would reinstate longevity payments to all City firefighters beginning on October
The Ohio Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA) is the exclusive bargaining representative for captains and sergeants in the City of Parma Heights, Ohio. The City’s patrol officers are in a separate bargaining unit and represented by a different union. The PBA and the City bargained a contract spa