Columbus police officer once fired for dereliction of duty is reinstated after additional investigation
After Officer Randall Mayhew was reinstated in November 2019, he was put on paid administrative leave again due to another investigation. Author: Lacey Crisp Updated: 5:44 PM EST January 26, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio A Columbus Division of Police officer who was fired, given his job back through arbitration, then placed on paid administrative leave due to another investigation, has now been reinstated.
Randall Mayhew was accused of having sex with three different prostitutes while on the job in 2015.
Mayhew pleaded guilty to dereliction of duty and was fired in August 2018. An arbitrator overruled that decision in November 2019 and Mayhew got his job back.
The Providence City Council
The Providence chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America is calling on the Providence City Council to object the proposed salary raises for the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #3.
This week, Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza joined FOP President Michael Imondi to sign a tentative contract agreement spanning a four-year term from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2023.
In addition, the first three years of the contract provide 4.5% wage increases and the final year provides a 3.75% wage increase for all officers.
Democratic Socialists Want Police Defunded
The Democratic Socialists in their release called the police racist. The Mayor may argue that this proposal will decrease the city’s deficit; however, raising salaries and providing back-pay to police officers is not a logical step. Ultimately, this will not shrink the budget deficit considerably, and it supports an actively harmful, white supremacist institution, said the group in their release.
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Michael D Onofrio, The Philadelphia Tribune January 23, 2021
The Juneteenth Parade makes its way down 52nd Street in West Philadelphia in June 2019 where it was being held for the first year after moving from Center City. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Juneteenth is no longer listed as an official city holiday.
This comes after Mayor Jim Kenney used a one-time executive action in 2020 to designate the June 19 celebration, commemorating the abolition of slavery in the U.S., an official city holiday for the first time.
City employees will not receive comp or administrative leave time for Juneteenth, which falls on a Saturday this year.
Oversight report highlights dispute over what documents are to be followed By Louis Peck |
January 20, 2021 | 10:17 pm
A contract between Montgomery County and its police union is largely inscrutable to anyone not involved in the negotiations, a report released Tuesday says.
“A third-party who wishes to read and understand the CBA will encounter several obstacles that combine to make the document unclear, uncertain, and opaque,” the report by the council’s Office of Legislative Oversight (OLO) says, referring to a collective bargaining agreement.
The report says a third-party reader is someone “other than those most directly involved in negotiation of the CBA.”