PDA

View Full Version : Some animals.... Correction Officer's Bill of Rights.




phill4paul
11-25-2013, 09:25 AM
There is far too much to copy/paste. I'll provide some highlights but it is worth the read. This is from Florida. I'm sure other states have one as well.

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0100-0199/0112/Sections/0112.532.html


(a) The interrogation shall be conducted at a reasonable hour, preferably at a time when the law enforcement officer or correctional officer is on duty,


(c) The law enforcement officer or correctional officer under investigation shall be informed of the rank, name, and command of the officer in charge of the investigation, the interrogating officer, and all persons present during the interrogation.


(d) The law enforcement officer or correctional officer under investigation must be informed of the nature of the investigation before any interrogation begins, and he or she must be informed of the names of all complainants.


(d) The law enforcement officer or correctional officer under investigation must be informed of the nature of the investigation before any interrogation begins, and he or she must be informed of the names of all complainants. All identifiable witnesses shall be interviewed, whenever possible, prior to the beginning of the investigative interview of the accused officer. The complaint, all witness statements, including all other existing subject officer statements, and all other existing evidence, including, but not limited to, incident reports, GPS locator information, and audio or video recordings relating to the incident under investigation, must be provided to each officer who is the subject of the complaint before the beginning of any investigative interview of that officer.


(e) Interrogating sessions shall be for reasonable periods and shall be timed to allow for such personal necessities and rest periods as are reasonably necessary.


(f) The law enforcement officer or correctional officer under interrogation may not be subjected to offensive language or be threatened with transfer, dismissal, or disciplinary action. A promise or reward may not be made as an inducement to answer any questions.


(h) If the law enforcement officer or correctional officer under interrogation is under arrest, or is likely to be placed under arrest as a result of the interrogation, he or she shall be completely informed of all his or her rights before commencing the interrogation.

phill4paul
11-25-2013, 09:35 AM
From Maryland...

http://citypaper.com/news/did-the-correctional-officer-bill-of-rights-enable-corruption-1.1485463

DID THE CORRECTIONAL OFFICER BILL OF RIGHTS ENABLE CORRUPTION?


The 2010 creation by the Maryland General Assembly of a much-heralded Correctional Officer Bill of Rights (COBR) has become a hot-button public-policy issue as a corruption scandal erupted April 23, when the inclusion of 13 correctional officers (COs) in a 25-member racketeering indictment against the Black Guerrilla Family (BGF) prison gang became national news.



It turns out COBR’s 2010 passage was propelled by events in 2008 that the FBI is currently investigating—a probe that earlier this year resulted in obstruction of justice conspiracy charges against 15 former and current COs, including supervisors, in connection with the 2008 beatings of inmate Kenneth Davis at Roxbury Correctional Institution in Hagerstown. Some of those charged have already pleaded guilty.


Thus, the FBI contends that current CO corruption in the BGF case is due, in part, to new due-process protections that were instituted in reaction to circumstances the FBI attributes to a corrupt correctional “culture” of inmate beatings and cover-ups which COs knew to be illegal. In other words, from the FBI’s perspective, COBR was corruption-enabling reform that itself was a product of corruption.

Anti Federalist
11-25-2013, 12:19 PM
More Equal Than Others...

ClydeCoulter
11-25-2013, 12:31 PM
SMH

Sounds kind of like what everyone is supposed to get.