Tag: Whistleblower
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Colorado legislators, supporters vow to push new legislation on officer misconduct
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado lawmakers and advocates said they are working on legislation to protect law enforcement officers who report misconduct by their peers. A similar effort in this year’s legislative session, which law enforcement officials opposed, went nowhere. This time around, a group is working with victims,…
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Appeals court reinstates lawsuit of UCCS chef who alleges illegal firing
An El Paso County jury will decide whether the University of Colorado fired an employee because he was rude, abusive and unprofessional, or because he filed a whistleblower complaint against his supervisor, the state’s second-highest court ruled on Thursday. A trial judge previously found the evidence showed Russell Allen’s supervisors were concerned about his persistently…
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Whistleblower: False diagnosis kept patient unconstitutionally confined at Colorado mental hospital
Colorado officials unnecessarily and illegally blocked the release of a patient at the state’s primary mental hospital who had recovered from a psychotic episode, and those officials then tried to fire staff at the hospital who fought his continued confinement, claims an insider at the hospital who has turned whistleblower. The accusations from Erica Palmer,…
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CDOT supervisor: ‘We don’t do things here that comply with the rules’
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On Dec. 14, 2018 at 3:51 p.m. John Olson, an appraisal supervisor for the Colorado Department of Transportation, sent an email to an employee he managed. At issue was the employee’s urgent complaint that proper appraisal procedures weren’t being used by “good ole boys” at…