Detective Kevin LaPeer was found to have broken city policy after being accused of racist language. Henderson’s new police chief decided not to discipline him.
LVMPD Citizen Review Board is violating privacy rights by publishing officer names, the police union claims. But, open records laws require the disclosures.
The embattled director of Clark County’s Juvenile Justice Services was accused earlier this year of nepotism, inappropriate remarks and sham discipline proceedings.
On Monday, The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) released video and information to the media about a violent stabbing of one of its officers, followed by five explosive gunshots that neutralized and killed the aggressor, 25-year-old Sandra Lopez-Ochoa. The information on the stabbing – and shooting – and the video came at a news conference at LVMPD headquarters in downtown Las Vegas.
Clark County hired Littler Mendelson P.C., a third-party law firm that specializes in employment and “labor law solutions” to investigate allegations of intimidation, retaliation, nepotism and wrongful discipline and terminations.