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ATLANTA - Some of the police recruits dismissed earlier this year for cheating on a test are eligible to become law enforcers again.
The Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council has sent notices to 11 of the fired Cobb County police recruits telling them the can be certified, their lawyers said Thursday.
The certification covers a 24-month probationary period once a recruit is hired by a law enforcement agency. The recruit would have to complete an ethics and professionalism course.
"The bottom line is they can work as police officers," said Philip ... Read more
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Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
30 January 2008
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NEWARK, N.J. - The American Civil Liberties Union has moved to join a lawsuit filed by a city police officer suspended after posting anonymous comments critical of his superiors on a Web site.
In a federal lawsuit filed last month, Officer Louis Wohltman alleges his rights to free speech and privacy were violated when Newark police department personnel obtained his identity from an Internet service provider and later suspended him.
Named in the suit are Anthony Ambrose and Garry F. McCarthy, the former and current police directors; Deputy Chief Kurt R. Ebler; Capt. Richard Cuccolo and 10 unidentified members of the police department.
"Because Director McCarthy was not the police director at the time of the incident, coupled with the fact that it is pending litigation, we are going to refrain from comment at this time," Det. Todd McClendon, a Newark police spokesman, said Wednesday. Ebler is no longer with the department and Cuccolo also would not comment, McClendon said.
McCarthy became police director in September 2006. Wohltman posted the comments on the www.Newarkspeaks.com site in February 2006, when Ambrose was director. Ambrose, who recently was named chief of investigators for the Essex County Prosecutor's Office, would not comment because of the ongoing litigation, according to spokesman Paul Loriquet.
According to the lawsuit, the comments were "highly critical of the Newark Police Department and of several of the individual defendants" and alleged incidents of corruption and incompetence.
One post featured an image of Ambrose with a clown's nose and wig superimposed on his face.
Subsequently, members of the police department served subpoenas on the Web site and on Internet service providers to identify the poster of the messages, the lawsuit alleges.
The suit claims that as a result of the postings, Wohltman became the subject of formal disciplinary proceedings that led to a hearing last August and, ultimately, a nine-month suspension.
The lawsuit seeks damages as well as the reinstatement of Wohltman to his position as a patrolman.
"Public employees have the right to speak openly about matters of public concern, and the right to do so anonymously on the Web, if they choose," ACLU-NJ legal director Ed Barocas said in a statement. "In this case, the Newark Police Department violated both of those rights."
Frank L. Corrado, an attorney representing Wohltman, did not immediately return a telephone message Wednesday.
The lawsuit is the second involving the Newark Police Department to make headlines in recent days. Last week an editor of a Brazilian newspaper claimed in a lawsuit that police arrested him in an effort to try and prevent him from publishing photographs from a crime scene last September.
In November, Attorney General Anne Milgram found that Deputy Chief Samuel DeMaio should be disciplined for questioning the editor, Robert Lima, and a photographer about their immigration status.
Milgram last summer ordered police to notify federal authorities when they believe a suspect is in the country illegally. The directive covered only suspects arrested for indictable offenses or drunken driving.
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