Overview
Whether dealing with aggressive union counsel, needing guidance through the disciplinary process, or assistance with developing strategies to achieve your agency’s personnel goals, our team works closely with management including, police and fire chiefs, sheriffs, and command staff to solve the most difficult problems with effective solutions. Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo has a team of attorneys with expertise in the full spectrum of representational issues related to our public safety practice. AALRR attorneys offer invaluable experience as well as technical expertise critical to public safety management.
Noteworthy
Examples of our team’s recent successes representing our public safety clients include:
- Defense of agency in five employee appeals of discipline stemming from highly publicized excessive force incident.
- Sustained termination of employee at disciplinary appeal hearing for dishonesty and poor performance, including providing false information in a police report.
- Sustained termination of employee at disciplinary appeal hearing and for dishonesty and poor performance, including making false and misleading statements to a supervisor.
- Sustained suspension of peace officer at disciplinary appeal hearing for use of excessive and unreasonable force during detainment and arrest of suspect.
- Sustained termination of sheriff’s deputy at disciplinary appeal hearing for gross negligence in the performance of duties, including sleeping on duty and absenting himself from his duties.
- Sustained termination of sheriff’s deputy at disciplinary appeal hearing for conducting unauthorized warrantless entry into residences of citizens and creating justification for entry after the fact.
- Sustained demotion of sergeant at disciplinary appeal hearing for alcohol-related off-duty misconduct and conduct unbecoming.
- Defeat of petition for writ of mandate brought by union challenging cost-sharing provision for disciplinary appeals.
- Defense of an (FLSA) collective action alleging that the agency improperly excluded cash in lieu of benefits payments from the calculation of the regular rate for purposes of overtime.
- Negotiation of successor MOUs involving public safety officer bargaining units for City of Anaheim, City of Long Beach, City of Downey, City of El Segundo, City of Westminster, and City of Pasadena.
