A federal judge gave the city of Vallejo 14 days to release the employment information of a former Vallejo police officer accused of using excessive force during a July 2017 incident. Steve Darden, and former Vallejo Police Chief Andrew Bidou are all named in the lawsuit filed by Carl Edwards. For the first 30 seconds of Muniz-Bottomley’s camera footage, there is no sound, until he taps the …
Four consumers have filed a class action lawsuit against drone manufacturers, alleging fraud and negligent misrepresentation. Allan Black, Christopher Jones, Roger Watts and Robert Matos Rivera filed a complaint, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, March 27 in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against Shenzen …
Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration suffered yet another setback Friday in its attempt to avoid refunding $200 million in fines and late fees issued to Chicagoans denied due process after being slapped with 1.5 million red-light and speed camera tickets. The Illinois Appellate Court refused to hear the city’s appeal of a lower court decision certifying the high-stakes lawsuit as a class action. …
The city of Chicago has settled a lawsuit for $20 million that it filed against a red-light camera company whose former chief executive pleaded guilty to a federal bribery charge. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the settlement Monday with Redflex Traffic Systems Inc. of Arizona and its Australian parent company Redflex Holdings Ltd. The lawsuit accused Redflex of fraud and making …
Police in a Twin Cities suburb are going to court over the city’s body camera policy for officers. The unions representing 38 officers and eight sergeants in Maplewood say parts of the policy should have been developed through collective bargaining instead of being imposed by the city. The law approved last spring by the state Legislature requires police departments …
Chicago’s red-light camera program is an example of how government can fail miserably. Chicago city officials installed their red-light camera program to pick the pockets of local motorists, not enhance traffic safety. So it seems apropos that a Cook County judge this week gave her approval to a class-action lawsuit covering up to 1.5 million motorists that attacks the manner in which this …
A red-light camera photo that shows an unidentified person dressed as the Grinch in a sheriff’s patrol car roll through a red light in the Inland Empire is part of a civil lawsuit that alleges a deputy illegally blew through the light to snap a souvenir picture. The Dec. 2013 photograph, which shows a costumed person waving at the camera as they blow through a red light in Victorville, was …
Michael Picard was filming a protest near a police DUI checkpoint in West Hartford, Conn., in Sept. 2015 when troopers confiscated his camera. The ACLU says this recording proves the officers fabricated criminal charges against Picard. (ACLU-CT) Three Connecticut state troopers fabricated criminal charges against a man protesting at a DUI traffic checkpoint, according to a lawsuit filed against …
The family of a Louisville man who was fatally shot by two Metro police officers said those officers were reckless, malicious and grossly negligent. Body camera video released Monday showed firsthand accounts from the three officers involved in the deadly police shooting on Broadleaf Drive. The Louisville Metro Police Department has released body camera video of an officer-involved shooting …
MANY QUESTIONS. RAMONE COLEMAN WAS AN APARTMENT AWAY FROM THE ARMED STANDOFF BALTIMORE COUNTY OFFICERS LAST MONTH. IT STARTED WHEN POLICE KICKED IN GAINES’ DOOR TO SERVE WARRANTS.