A senior editor for Police One offers his praise of Oceanside, California Police Department Officer Matthew Lyons for his response to a legally-armed citizen.
The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) filed a grievance solely on behalf of Andrew Markowitz, a police officer with the City of Miami. The grievance claimed that the City was required to provide but den...
The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) allows employers to request medical certification from employees who request leave under the Act. The FMLA also allows an employer to unilaterally designate lea...
Public safety employers continue to be bedeviled by some of the requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). High up there on the list of problems is how to calculate the overtime rate under t...
William Hawkins is a detective with the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia. Hawkins is also a member of the Fraternal Order of Police. In 2009, a Washington Post journalist con...
For many years, we have been warning that age/gender-graded physical fitness tests are on extremely shaky legal footing from the perspective of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. For the first time, a...
On June 2nd, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Homeland Security Appropriation bill was passed by a vote of 231-188. The Fiscal 2012 Homeland Security Spending Bill includes several grants, includi...