Report
non-working links here
Employment Law Resources
Administrative Leave
Administrative Leave: Memorandum
for heads of Executive Departments and Agencies on Administrative Leave, by
Katherine Archuleta, Director, U.S. Office of Personnel Management (May 29,
2015).
Arbitration
Arbitration: "Discipline
and Discharge of Public-Sector Employees: An Empirical Study of Arbitration
Awards," by Laura J.
Cooper, ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law, Vol. 27, Number 2, pg
195 (Winter 2012).
"Arbitration
of employment claims - an overview," presented at the ABA annual
meeting (Aug. 2002). [Ms-Word format]
Arbitration Under an Expired Contract, by Jack
Collins, 78 (4) The Police Chief (Apr. 2011).
Alternative Employment
Alternative
employment: Article, "Job
Sharing: A Viable Option for Law Enforcement?" 78 (3) FBI Law
Enforcement Bulletin 14 (Mar. 2009).
Assessment
centers
Book:
Assessment
Center Handbook for Police and Fire Personnel (3rd edition), by Charles D.
Hale, C.C. Thomas Publ., ISBN 13-9780398079482 (2010).
Aviation
Security
Antiterrorism
-- Skymarshal Program: Dept. of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector
General, "Evaluation
of the Federal Air Marshal Service," August 2004, 56 pages, PDF
format). The report chronicles how federal air marshals have slept on the job,
tested positive for alcohol or drugs while on duty, lost their weapons and
falsified information.
Aviation
security -- job effectiveness: "Efforts to Measure Effectiveness and
Strengthen Security Programs," Government Accounting Office Testimony, Document GAO-040285T (Nov.
20, 2003). [PDF]
Aviation
security: "TSA Oversight of Checked Baggage," U.S. Government
Accountability Office Report
GAO-06-869.
Background
Checks
Background
checks -- Merit Systems Protection Board report: "Reference
Checking in Federal Hiring" (2005).
Bargaining
Bargaining
Agreements: Article:
"One Bite of the Apple and One of the Orange: Interpreting Claims That
Collective Bargaining Agreements Should Waive the Individual Employee's
Statutory Rights," 19 (2) The Labor Lawyer (ABA) 185. [PDF]
Collective Bargaining Rights:
Information on the Number of Workers with and without Bargaining Rights,
GAO-02-835, U.S. General Accounting Office (48 pp. Sept. 2002). [PDF]
Online
article: Collective
bargaining, "Implementing
Changes in Expired Contracts," by John M. Collins, General Counsel, MA
Chiefs of Police Assn., Nov. 2002 Police Chief magazine.
Appointments: For the first time, all five members (and
the General Counsel) of the National
Labor Relations Board have been appointed by President George W. Bush,
including three Republican and two Democratic members.
Book:
Federal
Job Dispute Procedures: An employee's guide to complaints, appeals, and
grievances.
Body
Armor
Body
Armor: Body Armor for Law
Enforcement Officers, by Nathan James (Congressional Research Service, May
2014).
Body Armor: "Body
Armor Use, Care, and Performance in Real World Conditions: Findings from a
National Survey," Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) (November 1,
2012).
Body
Armor: "Bulletproof Vest Partnership
Initiative," BJA, Updated June 2011. This fact sheet describes the
Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP) Program, a U.S. Department of Justice
initiative designed to provide critical resources to state, local, and tribal
jurisdictions for the sole purpose of purchasing bullet-resistant body armor
for sworn law enforcement officers.
Body
armor: DoJ to
provide $33.6 million to assist law enforcement in replacing Zylon
ballistic vests.
Body Cameras
Body
Cameras: ACLU - Illinois:
Suggested
Guidelines on Use of Body Cameras by Police (Sep. 2014).
Body
Cameras: Are You
Recording This?: Enforcement of Police Videotaping, by Martina Kitzmueller,
47 (1) Conn. L. Rev. 167-196 (Nov. 2014).
Body
Cameras: AELE has a new
webpage on police body-cam
information, which will be periodically updated.
Body
Cameras: "Police
Body-Mounted Cameras: With Right Policies in Place, a Win For All," by
Jay Stanley, ACLU Senior Policy Analyst (October 2013).
Body Worn Cameras: The
body cam revolution: What it has, and hasn’t, accomplished, by Patrik Jonsson, Christian Science Monitor
(August 9, 2019).
Body-Worn
Cameras: Special
Report: Body-Worn Cameras, Police Magazine (Jul. 2015).
Body-Worn Cameras: Guidance for
the Use of Body-Worn Cameras by Canadian Law Enforcement Authorities, The
Privacy Commissioner of Canada (Feb. 2015).
Technology:
Body-Worn
Cameras for Criminal Justice: Market Survey, National Institute of Justice
(Mar. 2014).
Budget
Cutbacks
Budget
Cutbacks: "Policing
and the Economic Downturn: Striving for Efficiency is the New Normal,"
Police Executive Research Foundation (PERF) (Feb. 2013).
Canadian
Rights
Canadian
rights: Canadian Government document on same-sex
marriage rights. (2003)
Collective bargaining
Collective Bargaining: Police Union Contracts, by Stephen Rushin, 66
Duke Law Journal No. 6, pgs 1191-1266 (March 2017).
Collective
Bargaining: "The
Legislative Upheaval in Public-Sector Labor Law: A Search for Common Elements,"
by Martin H. Malin, ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law, Vol. 27, Number
2, pg 149 (Winter 2012).
Collective
Bargaining: "The
Constitutional Dimension of Unilateral Change in Public-Sector Collective
Bargaining," by Stephen F. Befort, ABA Journal of Labor &
Employment Law, Vol. 27, Number 2, pg 179 (Winter 2012).
Collective
Bargaining Agreements: Summary
of the first ever collective bargaining agreement between the American
Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and the Transportation Security
Administration (TSA), covering 45,000 TSA officers (Aug. 2, 2012).
Federal
Collective Bargaining Legislation for State and Municipal Public Safety
Personnel, 78 The Police Chief 12-13 (Jan. 2011). Legislative oversight:
Federal Collective Bargaining
Legislation for State and Municipal Public Safety Personnel, IACP
presentation (Oct. 2010).
Community
Relations
Community Relations: Resource Guide for Enhancing
Community Relationships and Protecting Privacy and Constitutional Rights, Bureau
of Justice Assistance, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, (NC
J248508 November 2014).
Compensation
Compensation:
Federal Employees
Compensation Act: Benefits for Retirement-Age Beneficiaries, Government
Accountability Office, Report 12-309R (Feb. 2012).
Compensation
- Report: Designing
an Effective Pay-for-Performance Compensation System, Merit Systems
Protection Board (2006).
Uniformed
federal workers: Office of Personnel Management issues intended regulations
to increase the rate paid to nonmilitary federal employees that are required to
wear a uniform, from $400 to $500. Allowances and Differentials,
71 (126) Fed. Reg. 37507, FR Doc. 06-5890, 5 CFR Part 591, RIN 3206-AL07.
Computer use policies:
Computer Security: Leadership
Spotlight - Importance of Cybersecurity,
by Nathaniel B. White, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (Feb. 5, 2019).
Cybercrime: Police Chief—Special issue on Cybercrime
& Computer-Enabled Crime (June 2018).
E government
report: State E-Government Strategies: Identifying Best Practices and
Applications, Congressional Research Service Report RL34104 (2007).
Instant
and text messaging report by the National Assn. of State Chief Information
Officers, "The Privacy Implications of Instant and Text Messaging
Technologies in State Government." The document contains links to IM
policies of eight states. [PDF]
IT
security: To minimize
Internet spam, phishing and spyware, the National Institute of Standards and
Technology has issued a draft of Minimum
Security Requirements for Federal Information and Information Systems.
Corrections Employment
Article: Reasons for Choosing a Correction
Officer Career, 7 (1) Psychological Services (APA) 34-43 (Feb. 2010).
Correctional Employees: Descriptive
Study of Michigan Department of Corrections Staff Well-being: Contributing
Factors, Outcomes, and Actionable Solutions, Final Report by Desert
Waters Correctional Outreach and Gallium Social Sciences, Drs. Caterina
Spinaris and Nicole Brocato (July 1, 2019). [Study reports that prison workers are more likely to show symptoms of
depression and anxiety or suicidal ideation. The report also said that these
workers have higher rates of generalized anxiety disorder, major depressive
disorder, PTSD, and alcohol abuse than military members or first responders].
Correctional
Employment: Staff Uniforms and Uniform Allowances, Program Statement 001-2018, Federal
Bureau of Prisons (March 26, 2018).
Correctional Employment: Employment, Program
Statement 3300.03, Federal Bureau of Prisons (May 8, 2017).
Federal
Prison Employment: Employee
and Labor Management Relations, Federal Bureau of Prisons Program Statement 3711.01 (June
28, 2017).
Federal Prison Employment: Physical and Medical Standards for Newly Hired
Correctional Employees, Federal Bureau of Prisons Program Statement
3906.24 (Feb. 24, 2017).
Federal Prison Policies: Staff Personal Weapons
Storage, Program Statement #5575.01, Federal Bureau of Prisons (Sept. 5,
2018).
Corruption
Corruption:
The Center for Public
Integrity has created a website entitled "Grading
the Nation: How accountable is your state?" with statistics, integrity
ratings, and other information concerning various forms of corruption, state by
state.
Credit
Card Abuse
Credit
card abuse: GAO Report
- "Steps Taken to Improve DoD Program Management, [and] Address
Misuse." In 120 transactions, involving $3,062,000 in allegedly
unauthorized charges, no one was fired or suspended, and only three persons
were verbally reprimanded. [PDF]
Credit
card controls: "Improving
the Management of Government Charge Card Programs," Appendix B of OMB
Circular A-123. [PDF]
Crime Scene Investigation
Electronic
Crime Scene Investigation: A Guide for First
Responders, Second Edition
Criminal
Conduct
Criminal
Liability: Federal
indictment of two retired NYPD detectives on charges that they worked as
Mafia hitmen while they were still officers. [PDF]
Cybercrime: Police Chief—Special issue on Cybercrime
& Computer-Enabled Crime (June 2018).
Indictment:
U.S. v.
James J. Smith (C.D. Cal. 2003), charging an ex FBI agent with passing
classified information to a Chinese intelligence agent. [PDF]
Investigations
- Report: "Administrative Subpoenas in Criminal Investigations: A
Brief Legal Analysis," Congressional Research Service, Doc. #RL33321 (2006)
Criminal Investigation
Criminal Investigation: Criminal
Investigative Analysis: Practitioner Perspectives (Part One of Four), by J.
Amber Scherer and John P. Jarvis, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (June 2014).
Criminal Investigation: Criminal
Investigative Analysis: Skills, Expertise, and Training (Part Two of Four),
J. Amber Scherer and John P. Jarvis, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (July 2014).
Criminal
Investigation: Criminal
Investigative Analysis: Measuring Success (Part Three of Four), by J. Amber Scherer and John P. Jarvis,
FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (August 2014).
Criminal
Investigation: Criminal
Investigative Analysis: Applications for the Courts (Part Four of Four), J. Amber Scherer and John P. Jarvis, FBI
Law Enforcement Bulletin (September 2014).
Defamation
Former
employee litigation: Article, Workplace Defamation
Suits on the Rise, National Law Journal (4-13-2009).
Disabilities
Article:
Physical
Injuries, Pain, and Psychological Trauma: Pathways to Disability, 3 (3)
Psychological Injury and Law (Springer) 241-253, DOI:
10.1007/s12207-010-9086-8.
Disabilities
- article: “A Disability by Any Other
Name is Still a Disability: Log Cabin, the Disability Spectrum, and the ADA(AA),”
4 Seventh Cir. Rev. 253 (2009).
Disabilities
- article: “Providing
Police Services to the Deaf,” 76 (8) Police Chief (IACP) July 2009.
Disabilities
- article: “ADA
and the Hiring Process,” 76 (9) Police Chief (IACP) Sep. 2009.
Disabilities
- article: "Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act: The
Potential for Police Liability," 73 (9) The Police Chief (Sep. 2006).
Disability
Discrimination: Toward an
"Unqualified" Otherwise Qualified Standard: Job Prerequisites and
Reasonable Accommodation Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, by John E.
Rumel, 18 Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal No. 1 (2014). Abstract.
Disability
Discrimination: "Americans
with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008," by Lisa A. Baker, FBI
Law Enforcement Bulletin (August 2011).
Disabilities
discrimination -- a new guide: "Q&A about the Association
Provision of the ADA."
Disability
Discrimination: "Resolving ADA
Complaints Through Mediation: An Overview," U.S. Department of Justice
(2013), and "The
ADA Mediation Program: Questions and Answers," U.S. Department of
Justice (2013).
Disabilities
discrimination: Revised Final Title II Rule, A
Compilation of Regulatory Provisions and Guidance -- Nondiscrimination on
the Basis of Disability in State and Local Government Services.
Disability
Law: Ten Employment
Myths: DoJ has a seventeen-minute video that responds to concerns expressed by
employers.
Disability
law - article: "How
Courts, Employers, and the ADA Disable Persons with Bipolar Disorder,"
Ramona Paetzold, 9 (2) Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal (2005).
Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission seven volume set of Technical Assistance Manuals
on a searchable CD-ROM ($135).
"How far
is too far? Employee
misconduct and the Americans with Disabilities Act," presented at the
ABA annual meeting (Aug. 2002). [Ms-Word format]
Statistics:
Crime Against
Persons with Disabilities, 2009-2012 - Statistical Tables, by Erika
Harrell. Bureau of Justice Statistics (February 25, 2014) NCJ 244525.
Disaster
relief
Disaster
relief: Guide to Nongovernmental
Organizations for the Military: A primer for the military about private,
voluntary, and nongovernmental organizations operating in humanitarian
emergencies globally.
Discovery
Discovery:
Article,
"Discovery Process and Personnel File Information," Nov. 2003, FBI
Law Enf. Bulletin, p. 25. [PDF]
Discipline
Disciplinary searches
Report:
Public Employees' Right to
Privacy in Their Electronic Communications: City of Ontario v. Quon in
the Supreme Court, Congressional Research Service, R41344 (July, 2010).
Disciplinary Systems
Conduct Unbecoming: Conduct
Unbecoming: Lessons from the Military, by John M. (Jack) Collins, Police
Chief Magazine (Jan. 2016)
Conflicts
- City Attorneys: "The role of a
municipal attorney in employee discipline hearings," by Paul N.
Keller, 40 (1) ISBA Local Government Law (July 2003). [Online and print format]
Discipline:
"An Employee Disciplinary System That Makes Sense," The Police
Chief, Sept. 2003, pp. 22-28; www.theiacp.org/
Discipline:
"Police Personalities: Understanding and Managing the Problem
Officer" by Laurence Miller, Ph.D., The Police Chief (May 2003), www.theiacp.org/ [Print format]
Early Warning Systems:
Responding to the Problem Police Officer, 8 pp., National Institute of Justice
(2001). [PDF]
Inspector
General's Review of Allegations
of a Double Standard of Discipline at the FBI, Nov. 2002. [PDF]
Police Discipline: Police
Disciplinary Appeals, by Stephen Rushin, 167 Univ. of Pennsylvania Law
Review ____ (2018, forthcoming). (Rough Draft).
Domestic
Violence
Domestic
assault among police:
Report: A
survey of 123 internal affairs policies (12 pp.) Institute for Law
Enforcement Administration, Plano, TX.
Domestic
Violence: It's a Human
Right: Using International Human Rights Principles to Assist Employees
Experiencing Domestic Violence, by Stephen E. Arnott & Margaret C. Hobday,
18 Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal No. 1 (2014). Abstract.
Dress
Codes & Appearance
Appearance
regulations - article: Regulating
Matters of Appearance, 76 (2) FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin 25 (Feb. 2007).
Dress
codes - Article: Spit
and Polish: A Critique of Military Off-Duty Personal Appearance Standards,
184 Military Law Review - Summer 2005
Drugs
Addiction
and rehabilitation: Health
& Human Services National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery informational website.
Anabolic
Steroid Use and Abuse by Police Officers: Policy & Prevention, by
Commander Kim R. Humphrey, July 2008 Police Chief.
Drug
Abuse: Leading
At-Risk Employees: Law Enforcement and the Addiction Crisis, by Michael
VanMeter, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (January 2016).
Drug-free
workplace website: U.S. Dept. of Labor offers resources to help employers
establish drug-free
workplace programs and other initiatives.
Drug
testing - "Krieg v. Seybold: The
Seventh Circuit Adopts a Bright Line in Favor of Random Drug Testing,"
3 Seventh Cir. Rev. 367 (2007).
Drug use: Position paper, Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for
Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies, CATO Institute (2009).
Firearms:
"Open
letter to all federal firearms licensees," U.S. Dept. of Justice,
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (Sept. 21, 2011). Takes the
position that persons making medical use of marijuana are not legally able to
possess or use firearms or ammunition.
Medical
Marijuana: Disciplining Police
Officers Re: Medical Marijuana, by Jack Collins, presentation at the IACP
Legal Officers Section Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida (Oct. 25-28, 2014).
Privacy
- HHS Guidance: "The confidentiality of alcohol and drug abuse patient
records regulation and the HIPAA Privacy Rule: Implications
for alcohol and substance abuse programs."
Educational requirements:
Article:
The Minnesota
Police Education Requirement, by S. Hilal & T. Erickson, FBI Law
Enforcement Bulletin (Jun. 2010).
Education: Perspective.
Advanced Degrees for Law Enforcement Personnel:: The Ideal Time to Enter a
Higher Education Program, by Nick Francis, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
(August 2015).
Education:
Educating
Police Executives in a New Community Problem-Solving Era, by Michael J.
Jenkins and John DeCarlo, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (May 2014).
Higher Education: "Higher
Education and Local Law Enforcement," By Susan Hilal, Ph.D., and James
Densley, Ph.D. , FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, May 2013.
EEOC
Discrimination:
The EEOC has launched a new FAQ website for federal
employees who pursue pro se discrimination complaints.
EEO
settlements: EEOC Litigation
Settlements monthly reports.
EEO
statistics: EEOC Litigation
Statistics, FY 1992 through 2002.
Employment
Discrimination. FY
2009 - 2011 EEOC Charge Receipts by State (includes U.S. Territories) and Basis.
An online searchable tool that can be used to see what types of employment
discrimination claims (and how many) are being filed in each state and
territory.
Proposal:
Plan of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for improving access to
services for persons with limited
English proficiency.
Race
Discrimination: EEOC updates its Compliance Manual section addressing
"Race and Color Discrimination." EEOC Manual §15
(2006).
Electronic
Weapons
Electronic
Weapons: Article, "The respiratory, metabolic, and neuroendocrine
effects of a new generation electronic control device [TASER X3]," by
Donald Dawes, et al., 207 (1) Forensic Science International 55-60 (Apr. 2011).
Abstract.
Emergency Office Relocation
Emergency
office relocation: The U.S. Office of Personnel Management has adopted a
rule on Evacuation Payments (including teleworking from an alternative worksite
during an emergency situation such as a pandemic health crisis). Absence
and Leave, 71 (157) Federal Register 47693, 5 CFR Part 630 [Aug. 17, 2006].
Employee
Benefits & Pay
Divorce
and Your Federal Benefits, published by the Federal Employees News Digest
(2001) ISBN: 0-910582-56-4. Explains the "unique federal administrative
and regulatory requirements affecting federal workers' -- and their spouses' --
rights to pensions and other benefits when a marriage ends."
Book: 2003 Federal
Employees Almanac. Pay, benefits, leaves, retirement, legal rulings,
employment policies and procedures, etc.
Educational
incentives - Article:
"Tuition assistance programs appear to allow firms to hire better quality,
more educated, more productive, employees," Natl. Bur. of Economic
Research Digest (Feb. 2003).
Federal
agency job satisfaction: How
federal workers rate their employing agencies.
Federal pay
scales -- law enforcement: Comparing
the Pay of Federal and Nonfederal Law Enforcement Officers, Congressional
Budget Office report (2005).
Federal
retirement: The U.S.
Office of Personnel Management has initiated an electronic retirement process.
Employees will be able to apply under a system known as RetireEZ that was
designed to quickly and accurately calculate their retirement benefits.
FLSA
comp time: Plaintiff's Complaint and class
action notification
in a suit by officers against the NYPD. [PDF]
Overtime:
Article, "The Fair Labor Standards Act and Police Compensation," 73
(6) FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin 1, June, 2004.
[PDF]
Overtime
claim website: New York
City police officers have sued the City alleging a violation of the FLSA. The lawsuit contends that officers were
not properly compensated for overtime hours worked, and that in many cases, the
compensatory time off practices of the City violate federal law.
Overtime:
The Dept. of Labor's new
rules on overtime are explained at a new "FairPay" website.
Overtime:
Website on the new
overtime rule: http://www.dol.gov/elaws/overtime.htm
More information about the regulations is at http://www.dol.gov/fairpay
Overtime
- First Responders: Dept.
of Labor Fact
Sheet #17J: First Responders and the Part 541 Exemptions Under the FLSA.
Pay
banding: The Dept. of Homeland Security likely to remove more transferred
federal employees from the GS pay schedules into a pay banding system
that groups several grades; it gives managers more wage flexibility and allows
for non guaranteed enhanced earning opportunities. Issues of Merit (Feb.
2003), Office of Policy and Evaluation, U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board.
Per
diem reimbursements: The GSA no longer publishes the list in the Federal
Register. All rates are available at http://www.gsa.gov/perdiem
Personnel
Pay: Management of Integrated Military Human Capital Program Needs,
Additional Improvements, Report
No. GAO-05-189. [PDF]
Retirement
benefits: State
Police Retirement Plans 2004 is a comprehensive comparison of state police
officers retirement plans -- including age and service retirements, vesting,
post-retirement COLAs, contribution rates, salary definitions, actuarial
assumptions and funding. Published by Workplace Economics, Inc.
Uniformed
federal workers: Office of Personnel Management issues intended regulations
to increase the rate paid to nonmilitary federal employees that are required to
wear a uniform, from $400 to $500. Allowances and Differentials,
71 (126) Fed. Reg. 37507, FR Doc. 06-5890, 5 CFR Part 591, RIN 3206-AL07.
Website
- FLSA/overtime claims: A U.S. Dept. of Labor chart
compares the current requirements for exemption as an executive,
administrative, professional, computer or outside sales employee with the new
proposed regulations.
Employee Conduct Regulations
Appearance
regulations - article: Regulating
Matters of Appearance, 76 (2) FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin 25 (Feb. 2007).
Employee
conduct regulations: The U.S. Office of Personnel Management has issued a
plain language rewrite of OPM regulations regarding the standards that govern
employee responsibilities and conduct. Employee
responsibilities and conduct, 71 (155) Federal Register 46073, 5 CFR Part
735 [Aug. 11, 2006].
Employee Monitoring:
Electronic
monitoring report by the National Workrights Institute, "Privacy Under
Siege: Electronic Monitoring in the Workplace." [PDF]
Global
positioning satellite monitoring report by the National Workrights
Institute, "On Your Tracks: GPS Tracking in the Workplace." [PDF]
Employee
Wellness Programs
Employee
Wellness Programs: "The
Employee Wellness Plan," by Mark E. McDonough, FBI Law Enforcement
Bulletin, p. 1 (December 2011).
Employment
Law
Discrimination
- Report: Bias
in the Workplace: Consistent Evidence of Sexual Orientation and Gender
Identity Discrimination, UCLA School of Law (2007).
Discrimination
complaint filings: The EEOC reports that in FY 2003, people filed 28,526
charges of race discrimination, 19,124 charges of age discrimination and 2,532
charges of religious discrimination. The religious complaints including the
wearing of religious apparel, scheduling to observe Sabbaths or religious
holidays, and other claims. EEOC
Charge Statistics FY 1992-2003.
Discrimination
- guidance: "Questions
and answers about employer responsibilities concerning the employment of
Muslims, Arabs, South Asians, and Sikhs," U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission (2005).
Discrimination
and retaliation: Office of Personnel Management issues final regulations to
carry out the notification and training requirements of the Notification and
Federal Employees Antidiscrimination and Retaliation (No FEAR) Act of 2002. 71
(139) Fed. Reg. 41095-99.
Discrimination
reports - FBI: Statistical
data on equal employment complaints filed against the FBI in the last five
years.
EEO
settlements: EEOC Litigation
Settlements monthly reports.
Employee
Screening: EEOC “Enforcement
Guidance on the Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment
Decisions.”
Employment Contracts: Employment Contracts &
Separate Agreements for Chiefs, by John Collins, visual presentation at the
IACP Legal Officers' Section, Chicago, Illinois (October, 2015).
Employment
Discrimination: Advancing
Diversity in Law Enforcement, U.S. Department of Justice, EEOC, (October
2016).
Employment
Discrimination: Conference,
Conciliation, and Persuasion: The Seventh Circuit's Groundbreaking Approach to
Analyzing the EEOC's Pre-Suit Obligations, by Lisa M. DeLeon, 9 Seventh
Circuit Rev. 370 (2014).
Employment
Discrimination. FY
2009 - 2011 EEOC Charge Receipts by State (includes U.S. Territories) and Basis.
An online searchable tool that can be used to see what types of employment
discrimination claims (and how many) are being filed in each state and
territory.
Employment Law: Employment Law Update, by
Jody M. Litchford, presentation at the IACP Legal Officers' Section, Chicago,
Illinois (October, 2015).
Employment
law: Print format article, "Recent Developments in Employer-Employee
Relations," 38 (2) Tort Trial & Insur. Prac. Law Journal (ABA)
309-334 (Winter 2003); www.abanet.org
Employment
law: Print format article, "Demotion and discharge of municipal
employees in Utah," by Ellen Kitzmiller, 16 Utah Bar J. 20 (April,
2003). www.utahbar.org
Federal
retirement: The U.S. Office
of Personnel Management has initiated an electronic retirement process.
Employees will be able to apply under a system known as RetireEZ that was
designed to quickly and accurately calculate their retirement benefits.
Job
Classifications: Revised
OPM Classification Standard for firefighters [GS-0081]. [PDF]
Personnel
Practices: GAO report on the process used to hire entry-level and lateral
transfer DoJ attorneys. No.
GAO-04-665R, "Information on Selected Personnel Practices at the
Justice Dept." [PDF]
Pregnancy:
Pregnancy
Discrimination Act, by Lisa Baker, Mar. 2008 FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
Promotions: Article, "An Exploratory Study of Two Decades of
Promotional Testing in a Metropolitan Police Department," by Bruce W.
Topp, Journal of
Police & Criminal Psychology (Nov. 2010).
English Only Rules
OSHA
Memorandum requires employers to instruct workers in workplace safety
“using both a language and vocabulary” that employees can understand; if an
employee does not speak or comprehend English, “instruction must be provided in
a language the employee can understand.”
Ethics
Article: Maintaining
Ethical Behavior, 79 (8) FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin 10 (Aug. 2010).
Ethics:
Developing
Ethical Law Enforcement Leaders: A Plan of Action, by Jay Fortenbery, FBI
Law Enforcement Bulletin (May 2014).
Ethics:
"Focus
on Ethics: The Power of Police Civility," by Andrew Borrello, FBI
Law Enforcement Bulletin (August 2012).
Ethics: Book, Ethical Standards in the Public Sector, 2nd
Edit. (2009). ISBN: 1-60442-062-6. Written for lawyers in public service or who
represent public entities. Table
of Contents. Order
info.
Massachusetts
State Ethics Commission
publications, educational materials and opinions.
U.S. Office of Government Ethics:
publications, advisory opinions, and training.
Excited
Delirium
Excited
Delirium: Excited
Delirium and the Dual Response: Preventing In-Custody Deaths, by Brian
Roach, Kelsey Echols, and Aaron Burnett, .FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (Jul.
2014).
Expenditure
Waste
Expenditure
waste -- TSA awards program: Dept. of Homeland Security, Office of
Inspector General, "Assessment of
Expenditures Related to the First Annual Transportation Security Administration
Awards Program and Executive Performance Awards." [PDF]
Extremism
Extremism:
A
New Approach to Countering Violent Extremism: Sharing Expertise and Empowering
Local Communities, by the executive staff of the FBI’s National Security
Branch, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (Oct. 2014).
Family Leave
Article: Family
and Medical Leave Act Amendments, by Richard G. Schott, FBI Law Enforcement
Bulletin (Jun. 2010).
Family
and Medical Leave Act: The
New Age of Dept. of Labor FMLA Audits, by Jenna Bedsole, visual
presentation at the IACP Legal Officers' Section, Chicago, Illinois (October,
2015).
Family leave: DOL Wage and Hour Division
guidance on the availability of FMLA leave where an employee or family
member is ill with pandemic flu.
Family
and Medical Leave: Proposed
amendments to FMLA regulations, 77 No. 31 Federal Registry 8960 (February
15 2012).
Fatigue
Fatigue: "Vigilance
Fatigue in Policing," by Meredith Krause, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
(December 2012).
Federal Civil Service
Federal
civil service: Sept. 2006 issue of the Merit Systems Protection Board newsletter.
Federal
employment: OPM's "Report to
Congress - Recruitment, Relocation, and Retention Incentives."
Federal
retirement: The U.S.
Office of Personnel Management has initiated an electronic retirement process.
Employees will be able to apply under a system known as RetireEZ that was
designed to quickly and accurately calculate their retirement benefits.
Pay
& allotments - federal: Pay
Under the General Schedule and Recruitment, Relocation, and Retention
Incentives, 76 (5) Federal Register 1096 (Jan. 7, 2011).
Sick leave
(federal): OPM Proposal, 5
CFR Part 630, 74 (176) Fed. Reg. 46934 (Sep. 14, 2009).
Federal
Holidays
Federal
Holidays: List (through 2010).
Federal Terminology
Dictionary
of federal terminology: On Their Own Terms: A Lexicon with an Emphasis on
Information-Related Terms Produced by the U.S. Federal Government, by Susan
Maret, Ph.D., Nov. 2005:
Female
Employees
Female
Officers: “The Feminine
Arm of the Law: Police Wives, Policewomen, and Gender Politics in the Chicago
Police Department, 1950 – 1984," by Megan Adams Labor (2013) 10(2):
77-103. Abstract.
Full Text
for purchase.
Women
in the Federal Government: Ambitions and Achievements, Merit Systems
Protection Board (May 24, 2011).
Firearms
Assaults
on Officers: Understanding
Firearms Assaults against Law Enforcement Officers in the United States, by
Joseph B. Kuhns, Diana Dolliver, Emily Bent, and Edward R. Maguire, COPS (March
14, 2016).
Federal Prison Policies: Staff Personal Weapons Storage,
Program Statement #5575.01, Federal Bureau of Prisons (Sept. 5, 2018).
Firearms Related: New
Technology Benefits Law Enforcement by Tracking Sidearm Use, by Danielle
Pompa, Stephen S. Owen, and Tod W. Burke, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (June
2016).
Firearms:
"Open
letter to all federal firearms licensees," U.S. Dept. of Justice,
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (Sept. 21, 2011). Takes the
position that persons making medical use of marijuana are not legally able to
possess or use firearms or ammunition.
Firefighters
FEMA
report: U.S.
Firefighter Fatalities in 2004.
Firefighter
safety: OSHA publication: Fire Service
Features of Buildings and Fire Protection Systems
Firefighter
safety: NIOSH draft document #141: Preventing
Deaths and Injuries of Fire Fighters When Fighting Fires in Unoccupied
Structures, 73 (246) Fed. Reg. 78365 (12/22/2008).
Firefighter
Staffing: "Staffing for Adequate
Fire and Emergency Response: The SAFER Grant Program," by Lennard G.
Kruger (Congressional Research Service, April 20, 2011).
Occupational
Disease - Article: Carcinogenicity of Shift-work, Painting and
Fire-fighting, IARC
Monograph, 98 (12) The Lancet Oncology 1065-66 Dec. 2007).
Fitness
Article:
The international firefighters'
union (IAFF) and fire chiefs' assn. (IAFC) have agreed to create a "Fire Service Peer
Fitness Trainer Certification," to implement a wellness/fitness
initiative.
Fitness:
Staff
Fitness Centers, Federal Bureau of Prisons Program Statement 3792.08 (March
27, 2015).
Fitness for Duty: Physical
and Medical Standards for Newly Hired Correctional Employees, Bureau of Prisons Program Statement
3906.24 (Feb. 24, 2017).
Fitness
testing: The
Case for Job-Specific Fitness Testing, New Jersey Police Chief Magazine
(June 2011).
Officer Health: Mindfulness
and Officer Health, Job Performance, and Well-Being by Konstantinos Papazoglou, Peter Collins, and Brian
Chopko, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (January 17, 2018).
Free
Speech
First Amendment: Employee First Amendment – A Case
Study, by Karen Kruger, visual presentation at the IACP Legal Officers'
Section, Chicago, Illinois (October, 2015).
First
Amendment: "The Chill of
a Wintry Light: Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri and the Right to Petition in
Public Employment," by William A. Herbert, 43 University of
Toledo Law Review No. 2 (Spring 2012).
Free Speech:
Public
Employee Speech, Categorical Balancing and Section 1983: A Critique of Garcetti
v. Ceballos, 42 Univ. of Richmond Law Rev. 561 (2008).
Free
Speech: Speech
and the Public Employee, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Aug. 2008.
Freedom of Information
Freedom of Information Act:
Summary of Annual FOIA
Reports for FY 2002.
FOIA
report: "Freedom
of Information Act Amendments: 109th Congress," Congressional Research
Service #RL32780, Library of Congress (2006).
FOIA:
The House Government Reform Committee has updated its "Citizen's Guide on Using the
Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act of 1974 to Request
Government Records."
Secrecy:
President Bush reaffirmed Executive
Order 13292 and on Dec. 31, 2006, with certain limitations, "all
classified records that (1) are more than 25 years old and (2) have been
determined to have permanent historical" value under Title 44, U.S. Code,
"shall be automatically declassified whether or not the records have been
reviewed."
Funding & Grants
Grants:
DoJ Inspector General's reports
on various city and county COPS grants and deficiencies found during financial
audits.
Garrity
Warnings
Garrity
Warnings: "Garrity Warnings - To Give or Not to
Give, That is the Question
," in the
Dec. 2012 issue of Police Chief. The article was written by Eric Daigle,
a member of the AELE Board of Directors and a speaker at two AELE seminars.
Government Organization
Government
organization:Executive Branch Reorganization and Management
Initiatives: A Brief
Overview, Congressional Research Service (2008).
Government Secrecy
Government Secrecy: Government
Transparency and Secrecy: An Examination of Its Meaning and Use in the Executive
Branch, Congressional Research
Service, Nov. 8, 2012.
Health Insurance
Health insurance: Article,
Health-Status Insurance – How Markets Can Provide Health Security, CATO Policy Analysis No. 633 (2009).
HIPAA
HIPAA privacy rule: HHS
National Standards to Protect
the Privacy of Personal Health Information.
"HIPAA administrative simplification:
How the privacy rule affects municipal ambulance service providers," 35
(2) The Urban Law Qtrly. (ABA) 317-351; Order information.
Privacy
- HHS Guidance: "The confidentiality of alcohol and drug abuse patient
records regulation and the HIPAA Privacy Rule: Implications for alcohol
and substance abuse programs."
Revised
FAQ HIPAA webpage.
Hiring
Hiring: The Right Person for the
Job: Police Chiefs Discuss the Most Important Commodity in Law Enforcement, by Susan Hilal
and James Densley, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (October 2015).
Law Enforcement Employment: Hiring for the
21st Century Law Enforcement Officer, Challenges, Opportunities, and Strategies
for Success, Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) and Office of Community
Oriented Policing Services (COPS) (2017).
Homosexual and Transexual Employees
Canadian
rights: Canadian Government document on same-sex marriage rights. (2003)
Discrimination
-
Report: Bias in the Workplace: Consistent Evidence of Sexual
Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination, UCLA School of Law (2007).
Domestic
Partner Rights: Article, "The Impact of Same-Sex Marriage on
the Workplace," Nixon
Peabody newsletter. [PDF]
Gay
Rights: State laws &
legislation website.
Homosexual job rights:
The Gay Rights Workplace Revolution, 30 (3) Human Rights (ABA) 14 (2003). [Online and print format]
Same-sex
marriages: The U.S. Dept. of Labor has issued guidance to employee benefit
plans on the definition of "spouse" and "marriage" under
ERISA and the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Windsor. DOL Technical Release No.
2013-04.
Same Sex Marriages:
Informational website of
Freedom to Marry, a project of the Astraea Foundation, an organization of
activists and lawyers that promote homosexual marriage rights.
Sexual Orientation Discrimination: A
Fresh Look at Title VII: Sexual Orientation Discrimination as Sex
Discrimination, by Anthony Michael Kreis, 35 Illinois Public Employee
Relations Report No. 1 (2018).
Transgender Employees: Memo of Attorney General Jeff Sessions to U.S.
Attorneys and Heads of Components of the U.S. Department of Justice taking the
position that Title VII does not protect transgender employees against
workplace discrimination (Oct. 4, 2017).
Transgender
Employees: "Lost in Transition: The
Challenges of Remedying Transgender Employment Discrimination Under Title VII," by Jason
Lee, Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, Vol. 35, No. 2, 2012.
Transsexuals
- legal rights: "The expanding rights of transsexuals in the workplace," 21 (2)
The Labor Lawyer (ABA) 121-139.
Honesty and Integrity
Massachusetts
State Ethics Commission
publications, educational materials and opinions.
U.S. Office of Government Ethics: publications, advisory opinions, and
training.
"The
development, marketing and use of integrity tests in the American workplace," by William Harris,
University of Iowa (1997).
"The
Lie Behind the Lie Detector,"
By George W. Maschke and Gino J. Scalabrini, 2nd edit., 176 Pages, 739kb PDF
format. Published by AntiPolygraph.org
Neurolinguistic
evaluations: Recognizing indications of deception or truthfulness during an employee interview.
"The
Polygraph and Lie Detection (2002)," by the National Academies Press. ISBN 0-309-08605-1 (2002)
Principles for
Promoting Police Integrity,
45 pp., National Institute of Justice (2001).
Guidance: New Jersey Attorney
General issues Guidelines on applications
for a waiver of forfeiture of a public office after a criminal conviction.
[PDF]
Online
summary: "The e-clearance initiative." Explains
the new three-part system of processing federal employment background
investigations and security clearances.
Hostage Situations
Hostage Negotiation: “Crisis” or “Hostage” Negotiation? The Distinction
Between Two Important Terms, By Jeff Thompson, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (March
2014).
Human Resources / Personnel Management
Community Relations: Resource Guide for Enhancing Community Relationships
and Protecting Privacy and Constitutional Rights, Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office
of Community Oriented Policing Services, (NC J248508 November 2014).
"Internal
Affairs Management Software,"
by Tim Dees, May 2003 Law and Order Magazine, pp. 88-94; online article.
Stylebook of gender identity and related
terminology. [PDF format]
Dictionary
of Occupational Titles,
compiled from Bureau of the Census and Labor Dept. sources.
Management Resources: Performance Management Strategies for Effective
Leadership: An Accountability Process, by Gary Ellis and Anthony H.
Normore, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (February 2015).
Morale:
"Perspective: Evaluating the
Paramilitary Structure and Morale," by David Cruickshank, FBI Law Enforcement
Bulletin (Oct.-Nov. 2013).
Online
report:
Recommendations for Change: Making the Public
Service Work. U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, Office of Policy and
Evaluation (37 pp. Sept. 2002). Includes a recommendation to abolish the
"Rule of Three" for promotions.
Personnel
manuals: Law review article, "Contracts of convenience -- Preventing employers from unilaterally
modifying promises made in employee handbooks," by Brian Kohn, Yeshiva
Univ. (Jan. 2003), 24 Cardozo L. Rev. 799 (16,265 words, 263 endnotes). [PDF]
Pre-employment
Screening: "Pre-employment Psychological Evaluations," Sept. 2003
Law and Order Magazine, pp. 85-87; online in the articles
archive section at www.lawandordermag.com/
Human Trafficking
Human Trafficking: Human Trafficking Task Force Strategy e-Guide:
Strengthening Collaborative Responses (NCJ 248467), Bureau of Justice
Assistance, Office for Victims of Crime (October 2014).
Immigration law
Authority of state
and local police to enforce federal immigration law, Congressional Research Service, #R41423 (Sep. 2010).
Internal Affairs
Book: Warning the Witness: A Guide to Internal
Investigations and the Attorney-Client Privilege, by Collins & Seide, ABA Book
Pub., ISBN: 978-1-60442-916-9 (May 2010).
Domestic
assault among police: Report: A survey
of 123 internal affairs policies (12 pp.) Institute for Law Enforcement
Administration, Plano, TX.
"Internal
Affairs Management Software,"
by Tim Dees, May 2003 Law and Order Magazine, pp. 88-94; online article.
Interrogation
Interrogation: Reading People: Behavioral Anomalies and
Investigative Interviewing, By David Matsumoto, Lisa G. Skinner,, and Hyisung C.
Hwang, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (March 2014).
Interrogation: "Criminal Interrogations of Police Officers After
Use-of-Force Incidents," by Jeffrey J. Noble, J.D., and Geoffrey P.
Alpert, Ph.D., FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (September 2013).
Internet:
Book:
Find Info Like a Pro, Vol. 1: Mining the
Internet’s Publicly Available Resources for Investigative Research, Levitt
& Rosch, ABA Book Pub., ISBN: 978-1-60442-890-2 (Mar. 2010).
Computer
Security: Growing Risk of Data
Sabotage: Protecting Law Enforcement Agencies, by Michael Gregg, FBI Law
Enforcement Bulletin (July 2016).
Internet
security: Report, A practical guide to protecting your identity and
security online and when using mobile phones, Access Global Movement for Digital Freedom (2011).
Social
Networking in Law Enforcement
Investigative Reports
Investigative Reports: "Special Reports. A Review of ATF's Operation Fast
and Furious and Related Matters," Inspector General, U.S. Department of
Justice (Sept. 19, 2012).
Investigative
Reports: "Investigations Press
Releases. Court Security Contractor to Pay $1.8 Million to Resolve Allegations
That Guards Did Not Undergo Authorized Firearm Qualification Testing," Inspector
General, U.S. Department of Justice (Sept. 27, 2012).
Report
Writing: Focus
on Report Writing: Policies and Practices, FBI
Law Enforcement Bulletin (January 17, 2018).
Job Satisfaction
Police
job satisfaction: articles published by Sage Publications.
1. Factors Affecting the Decision of Police Recruits to
"Drop Out" of Police Work, 2005 (8) Police Quarterly 431-453.
2. Job Satisfaction, Burnout, and Perception of Unfair Treatment: The Relationship
Between Race and Police Work, 2005 (8) Police Quarterly 476-489.
Job satisfaction: According
to a 2005 survey, 71% of
all federal employees are satisfied with their jobs. Justice Dept. workers
recorded a 73% satisfaction; Homeland Security rated the lowest, with a 58% job
satisfaction rating.
Justice Department Documents
Justice
Department Documents: "U.S. Justice Department Settles
Allegations of Employment Discrimination in Promotion of Police Sergeants in
New Jersey," press release
(Aug. 1, 2011).
Labor-Management Relations
DoJ COPS labor-management
publications:
Police
Labor-Management Relations, Vol. I: Perspectives and Practical Solutions for Implementing Change, Making
Reforms, and Handling Crises for Managers and Union Leaders (2006)
Police
Labor-Management Relations, Vol. II: A Guide for Implementing Change, Making Reforms, and Handling Crises
for Managers and Union Leaders (2006)
Labor Relations: Police Union Contracts, by Stephen Rushin, Duke Law
Journal (2016) (abstract).
Labor-Management Relations: Police
Unions, by Catherine Fisk and L. Song Richardson, George Washington Law
Review, Vol. 85, 2017, Forthcoming, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No.
2016-47.
Police
Management: Mentoring
Your Replacement by Michael Card, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (Nov. 13, 2018).
Public Employee Labor Relations: The Illinois Public Employee Relations
Report (published quarterly by IIT Chicago-Kent Law School and University of
Illinois Champaign-Urbana). Available online, to subscribe for free click here.
Law Enforcement Cooperation
Law
Enforcement Cooperation: Creating the
Preferred Future Today for Law Enforcement Cooperation Tomorrow: A Case Study, by Mike
Masterson, Ernst Weyand, and Douglas Hart, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (April
2015).
Legal Summaries
Recent
Labor and Employment Decisions of Note, IACP presentation (Oct. 2010).
Legislative oversight
Legislative oversight: Congressional Oversight Manual, prepared by the
Congressional Research Service, #RL30240 (2011).
Light Duty
Exploring Administrators’
Perceptions of Light-Duty Assignment, 14 (2) Police Quarterly (Sage) 124-141
(Jun. 2010). Abstract
Media Relations
Media Relations: Issue
focused on police media relations, Police Chief Magazine (August 2019).
Media Relations: Focus on Media Relations: A Recipe for Success with News
Outlets,
by Christina Cotterman, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (September 2015).
Medical Information
Bloodborne
Pathogens: OSHA has published a bulletin reiterating the agency's policy on
disposal of contaminated needles and blood tube holders following blood-drawing procedures.
Contagious Diseases: CDC’s
Interim Guidance on
infection control measures for 2009 H1N1 influenza (Swine or Mexican
Flu) in healthcare settings, including protection of healthcare personnel.
Contagious
Diseases - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Intelligence
Community Assessment requested by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Firefighter cardiac
deaths -- Report:
Three-quarters of firefighters who died of heart attacks -- the top cause of
on-duty deaths -- went to work with known or detectable heart conditions,
according to a ten-year study by the National Fire Protection Association.
Health:
Article, "Individual Differences in Utilizing Control to Cope With Job
Demands: Effects on Susceptibility to Infectious Disease," 86 (2) Journal of Applied
Psychology (APA) 265-278.
Information: OSHA
guidance on SARS-related
employer responsibilities and information for workers -- with links to CDC
sites.
Occupational Disease -
Article: Carcinogenicity of Shift-work, Painting and Fire-fighting, IARC
Monograph, 98 (12) The Lancet
Oncology 1065-66 Dec. 2007).
Occupational
health - bicycle duty: Male bicycle patrol officers who were studied
experienced groin numbness due to prolonged pressure on the perineum. The data,
cited by NIOSH in a special report, suggests that prolonged bicycle riding may have negative effects on
nocturnal erectile function and a need for innovative bicycle saddle designs.
"Nocturnal Penile Tumescence and Rigidity Testing in Bicycling Patrol Officers,"
by Schrader, Breitenstein, Clark, Lowe, and Turner, 23 Journal of
Andrology 927-934.
Online
guide - American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine publishes
the first edition of Guidance for the Medical Evaluation of Law
Enforcement Officers
(2010).
OSHA: Advice to
outdoor workers on heatstroke. [Online]
Pandemic
influenza 2009:
1. OPM
Guidance for federal
agencies, including teleworking, leave, sending staff home, worksite
evacuations, etc.
2.
DoJ/BJA online booklet: Communication and Public Health Emergencies: A
Guide for Law Enforcement
Pandemic
influenza: Law Enforcement Pandemic
Influenza Planning Checklist, HHS Centers for Disease Contro
Police
mortality rates - report: Iowa law enforcement officers mortality
rate study findings
(2005).
Sleep
Deprivation: "Sleep Disorders, Health, and Safety in Police
Officers," by Shantha M. W. Rajaratnam, Laura K. Barger, Steven W.
Lockley, Steven A. Shea, Wei Wang, Christopher P. Landrigan, Conor S. O’Brien,
Salim Qadri, Jason P. Sullivan, Brian E. Cade, Lawrence J. Epstein, David P.
White, and Charles A. Czeisler, for the Harvard Work Hours, Health and Safety
Group, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) 2011;
306(23):2567-2578. The article indicates that as many as 40% of all police
officers suffer from sleep disorders. Subscription or one-time access
fee required. Abstract.
Smallpox:
Online article, "Smallpox Vacillation," explains the vaccination process and hazards for
first responders. Fire Chief magazine (Jun, 2003).
Vaccinations:
Vaccine Policy Issues, a report by the Congressional
Research Service.
Mental Illness
Mental Health: The
Importance of Mental Health Training in Law Enforcement, by Nicholas Wilcox, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (July
2015).
Mental
Illness: Encountering Mentally Ill
People and Potential Liability under the ADA, by Michael J. Oh, Police Chief (Jul.
2014).
Mental
illness: Report: Improving Police Response
to Persons With Mental Illness, IACP/BJA (June 2010).
Mental
Illness/Workplace Safety: Law Review, "Employees with Mental and
Emotional Problems -- Workplace Security and Implications of State
Discrimination Laws, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation
Act, Workers' Compensation, and Related Issues," by Janet E. Goldberg,
Stetson Law Review (Fall 1994) 24 Stetson L. Rev. 201 (21,010 words, 240
notes).
Military Leave
Military
Leave: A Non-Technical Resource Guide to the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights
Act. [PDF]
U.S.
Office of Personnel Management sites:
(1) Military Leave Fact Sheet (Nov. 2001)
(2) Frequently Asked Questions on Military
Leave (Oct. 2001)
U.S. Dept. of Labor, Veterans
Employment and Training Service has a website explaining the 1994
Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act.
Military Law: Military Sexual Assault: Chronology of Activity in
Congress and Related Resources.
Military retirement
-- Report: Major
Legislative Issues, identified by the Congressional Research Service. [PDF]
Military Personnel
Book: [Federal]
"Civil Service Handbook for Ex-Military Personnel," published by
Federal Employees News Digest, $12.95, www.FederalDaily.com/B062.html
Online Report: General Accounting
Office Report to the Congress on the fraud
and abuse of military travel cards. [PDF]
Military benefits – tuition
programs: Defense Department publishes its policy for transferring educational
benefits to the spouses and children of service members under the "Post
9/11 GI Bill," effective Aug. 1, 2009. DoD Memorandum 09-003.
Military
retirement -- Report:
Major Legislative Issues, identified by the Congressional Research
Service. [PDF]
Military service - educational
benefits: Changes to the G.I. Bill
Military
veterans (publication): Employing
Returning Combat Veterans as Law Enforcement Officers, a BJA funded
IACP document, Sep. 2009.
Personnel
Pay: Management of Integrated Military Human Capital Program Needs,
Additional Improvements, Report No. GAO-05-189. [PDF]
Policing occupied
territories: Private Security
Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan: Legal Issues. Congressional Research
Service (Dec. 22, 2009).
Taxation: IRS
website has links to
publications and forms with tax information for armed services members.
Military Service
Article: The Returning Military Veteran: Is Your Organization
Ready?
79 (8) FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin 1 (Aug. 2010).
Guide:
Combat
Veterans: A Transition Guide for
Veterans Beginning or Continuing Careers in Law Enforcement
Guide:
Law Enforcement Leader's Guide on
Combat Veterans
Military
Families: The American Bar Association (ABA) has announced a new website to help
military families, including information about the Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act. As part of its
military family support services, the ABA has created the ABA Home Front, to provide legal resources for
military families.
National Security
Article: Debt and Home Foreclosures: Their Effect on National
Security Clearances.
National
Security Issues: DoD Evaluation of
Over-Classification of National Security Information (Redacted), Inspector General
Department of Defense (Sept. 30, 2013).
National
security: Revised Policies and
Procedures Governing Invocation of the State Secrets Privilege, A. G. Memo.
Dated 9/23/2009.
Occupational Disease
Occupational
Disease - Article: Carcinogenicity of Shift-work, Painting and
Fire-fighting, IARC Monograph, 98 (12) The Lancet Oncology 1065-66 Dec. 2007).
Officer Safety
Assaults
on Officers: Understanding Firearms
Assaults against Law Enforcement Officers in the United States, by Joseph B.
Kuhns, Diana Dolliver, Emily Bent, and Edward R. Maguire, COPS (March 14,
2016).
Officer Safety: Officer
Safety Corner: Officer Performance Optimization: An Integrated and Culturally
Relevant Approach to Officer Wellness, Health, and Performance by
Brandi Burque, Deloria R. Wilson, and Cliff Burns, Police Chief Magazine
(August 2018).
Officer
Safety: Officer Survival Spotlight:
Accidental Deaths Among Law Enforcement Officers, by Philip D. Wright, FBI Law
Enforcement Bulletin (June 2014).
Officer
Safety: Improving Officer Safety and
Citizen Support: Solving the Puzzle, by Mike Masterson, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
(May 2014).
Officer
Safety: The IACP National Law Enforcement Policy Center has published "Officer Safety and Risk Management: Avoiding and
Mitigating Officer Deaths, Assaults, and Injuries." The publication can be
ordered in print or in electronic form.
Officer Safety and Wellness: Special
Issue of The Police Chief on Officer Safety and Wellness (May 2018).
Police
Injuries: Pattern of law-enforcement
related injuries in the United States, by DC Chang, M Williams, NF Sangji.
LD Britt, and SO Rogers Jr., J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2016 Feb. 16 (abstract).
OSHA
Airborne infections: OSHA issues "Guidance for Protecting Employees Against Avian Flu"
Bloodborne Pathogens: OSHA has published
a bulletin reiterating the agency's policy on disposal of contaminated needles and blood tube holders following
blood-drawing procedures.
English Only Rules: OSHA
Memorandum requires
employers to instruct workers in workplace safety “using both a language and
vocabulary” that employees can understand; if an employee does not speak or
comprehend English, “instruction must be provided in a language the employee
can understand.”
Incident
Command website: OSHA-provided online training software.
Occupational Disease -
Article: Carcinogenicity of Shift-work, Painting and Fire-fighting, IARC
Monograph, 98 (12) The Lancet
Oncology 1065-66 Dec. 2007).
Occupational
health & safety - report: Centers for Disease Control, "Health Hazard Evaluation of Police Officers and
Firefighters After Hurricane Katrina--New Orleans," 55 (16) M&MWR (CDC)
456-458.
Occupational
safety: OSHA Guidance
on Preparing Workplaces for an Influenza Pandemic.
Occupational
Safety: OSHA's 32-page Guidelines for Employers to Reduce Motor
Vehicle Crashes offers
information to help employers design an effective driver safety program.
Occupational
Safety & Disease: Transportation Security Administration injury rate
found unacceptably high. Injury and illness data, by federal agency, is at http://www.osha.gov/dep/fap/index.html
OSHA: Advice to
outdoor workers on heatstroke. [Online]
OSHA:
Workplace Safety Fire and Explosion Planning Matrix.
Repetitive
motion injuries - Article: The Safety Guys: Office Ergonomics 101, Part 1 and Part
2,
Forensic Magazine (2007).
Safety Equipment: OSHA
clarifies employer responsibilities to provide respirators or other protective
equipment and relevant training. Employer
Duty to Provide Personal Protective Equipment and Train Each Employee, Docket No.
OSHA-2008-0031, 73 Federal Register 75568-589 (Dec. 12, 2008).
Toxicology:
OSHA
website now provides chemical exposure
health data.
Outsourcing
Outsourcing: Privatization
and the Federal Government: An Introduction, Congressional Research Service #RL33777 (Dec. 28, 2006).
Overtime
Fair Labor Standards Act: FLSA: Delimiting
the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional Employees, proposed
rule and request for comments, Wage and Houe Division, U.S. Department of Labor
(July 6, 2015).
FLSA: "'Donning and Doffing' Police Uniforms and Protective
Gear Under the Fair Labor Standards Act," by Richard G. Schott, FBI Law
Enforcement Bulletin (June 2011).
Overtime:
New Fair Law Standards Act rule
concerning overtime, 29 CFR Part 541, effective Dec. 1, 2016.
Overtime: Overtime Final Rule and State and Local Governments, U.S. Department
of Labor (2016).
Overtime:
"Guidance on Applying FLSA Overtime Provisions to Law Enforcement
Employees Receiving Administratively Uncontrollable Overtime Pay," U.S. Office of Personnel
Management.
Overtime:
Article, "The Fair Labor Standards Act and Police Compensation," 73
(6) FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin 1, June, 2004. [PDF]
Overtime claim
website: New York City police officers have sued the City alleging a violation of
the FLSA. The lawsuit contends that
officers were not properly compensated for overtime hours worked, and that in
many cases, the compensatory time off practices of the City violate federal
law.
Overtime:
The
Dept. of Labor's new rules on overtime are explained at a new
"FairPay" website.
Overtime: Website on the new overtime rule: http://www.dol.gov/elaws/overtime.htm More information
about the regulations is at http://www.dol.gov/fairpay
Overtime - First Responders: Dept. of Labor Fact Sheet #17J: First Responders and the Part 541
Exemptions Under the FLSA.
Pay and Allotments
Pay
& allotments - federal: Pay Under
the General Schedule and Recruitment, Relocation, and Retention Incentives, 76 (5) Federal
Register 1096 (Jan. 7, 2011).
Pensions & Retirement
Federal retirement: The U.S. Office of
Personnel Management has initiated an electronic retirement process. Employees
will be able to apply under a system known as RetireEZ that was designed to quickly and accurately calculate their retirement
benefits.
Public Pensions: "Statutes
as Contracts? The 'California Rule' and Its Impact on Public Pension Reform," by Amy B. Monahan, 97 Iowa Law Review 1029 (2012).
Retirement
benefits: State Police Retirement Plans
2004
is a comprehensive comparison of state police officers retirement plans --
including age and service retirements, vesting, post-retirement COLAs,
contribution rates, salary definitions, actuarial assumptions and funding.
Published by Workplace Economics, Inc.
Retirement
plans: IRS Publication 553: a summary of legislative changes in 2002 affecting deferred
compensation plans of state and local governments. [Online and print format]
Performance Measurement
Performance
measurement: Developing a Police
Performance Measurement System, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Sep. 2008.
Personnel Management:
Law Enforcement
Management: The Responsibilities of Command:
Doing the Right Thing for the Right Reasons, by Cynthia L. Lewis, FBI Law
Enforcement Bulletin (April 2016).
OPM
issues Memo for
heads of executive departments and agencies pertaining to the effective use of
recruitment, relocation, and retention incentives.
Performance
Evaluations: "Leadership Spotlight.
Build Bridges, Not Dams: Performance Evaluations," by J.E. Granderson, FBI Law
Enforcement Bulletin (Oct.-Nov. 2013).
Personnel Records: Personnel Records and
Files, Program Statement 3923.01, Federal Bureau of Prisons (July 25,
2017).
Police
Management: Mentoring
Your Replacement by Michael Card, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (Nov. 13, 2018).
Physical Fitness
Officer Health: Building Community Trust Requires Supporting Healthy
Officers, by John Marx, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (October 2016).
Physical
fitness programs: Article: Fit for duty? The need for
physical fitness programs for law enforcement officers, by Adrienne
Quigley, 75 (6) The Police Chief (June 2008).
Wellness: Focus on Officer Wellness: Safety Concerns
and Guidelines for Hostage and Crisis Negotiators, by James I.
Greenstone, Police Chief Magazine (June 2019).
Police Licensing
Police
Licensing: Police Licensing and
Revocation, by Thomas Jurkanin, Ph.D. Police Chief Magazine (Feb. 2014).
Police Management and Oversight
Law Enforcement Chaplains: Law Enforcement Chaplains: Defining Their Roles, by Richard
Braswell, Bryan Steinkopf and Angela Beamer, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
(November 2016).
Law Enforcement Leadership: The January
2018 issue of Police Chief Magazine, published by the International
Association of Chiefs of Police (IAC) focuses on leadership in several
different articles.
Law Enforcement Leadership: Leadership
Spotlight: Have We Lost Civility? by Kenneth Kilbride, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (Nov. 15, 2017).
Law
Enforcement Leadership: Human Factors
in Law Enforcement Leadership, by Darius H. Bone, Anthony H. Normore, and Mitch
Javidi, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (December 2015).
Law Enforcement Management: Managing
a Changing Workforce, by Karen
Dietrich, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (Oct. 15, 2018).
Leadership Skills: Leadership
Spotlight: Rapport and Empathy by Robert
K. Melquist, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (March 13,
2018).
Management Resources: Improving Motivation and Productivity of Police
Officers, by Jay Fortenbery, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (August 2015).
Police
Chaplains: Police Chaplains: An Integral
Part of Law Enforcement, by Jack L. Rinchich, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
(December 2015).
Police
Management: Mentoring
Your Replacement by Michael Card, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (Nov. 13, 2018).
Police Management: Teams: A Pathway to Organizational Success, by Dan Bradley
and James A. Jancewicz, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (December 2016).
Police
Management: Single Point of Failure:
One Person Can Ruin the Team, by Joshua Judah, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (November
2016).
Police Management: Commander’s Intent: A Framework for Success, by W. Michael
Phibbs, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (October 2016).
Police
Management: "The Police Chief as Coach:
Analogies between Sports and Effective Police Leadership," By Thomas
J. Jurkanin, PhD, Police Chief Magazine (November 2012).
Police
Management: "Revolutionizing Policing Through
Servant-Leadership and Quality Management," by Bill Gardner and John Reece, FBI
Law Enforcement Bulletin
(June 2012).
Police
oversight - presentation: Does
Oversight Reduce Policing? Evidence from the Cincinnati Police Dept. After the
April 2001 Riot, by Lan Shi, Dept. of Economics, Univ. of Washington, 2006
Annual Meeting of the American Economic Assn.
Policing: Law
Enforcement Organizations: Possibilities and Challenges for the Future, by Jay Fortenbery, FBI Law Enforcement
Bulletin (February 2016).
Smaller
Police Agencies: The April 2013 issue of Police
Chief
magazine contains five articles about improving the performance of smaller
agencies.
Websites:
Smaller Law Enforcement Agency Program website (IACP).
Police reform:
Booklet:
Making Police Reforms Endure, DoJ/COPS
(May 2010). “Presents a framework that other police departments can use and
test in their efforts to institutionalize police reforms.”
Police Reform: Importance
of State Law in Police Reform, by Roger L. Goldman, Saint Louis University Law Journal, Vol. 60, No.
363, 2016.
Presidential
Task Force Reports: Interim Report
of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing (March 1, 2015).
Police Volunteer Programs
Police
Volunteer Programs: "Model Policy on
Volunteers." This model policy on volunteers was developed by the National Law Enforcement Policy Center in partnership
with the Volunteers in Police Service
Program.
Police Volunteer Programs: "Volunteers in Police Service Program Add Value While
Budgets Decrease." Volunteers in Police Service Program (December 2011).
Policy and Procedure Manuals
"Writing
Policy and Procedure Manuals in a Small Campus Police Environment," by Robert A. Johnson, FBI Law
Enforcement Bulletin
(February 2011).
Polygraphs
Polygraphs:
The Concealed Information Test: An
Alternative to the Traditional Polygraph, by Blake McConnell and Timothy J.
Weber, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (August, 2014).
Pregnancy
Pregnancy:
Pregnancy Discrimination Act, by Lisa Baker,
Mar. 2008 FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
Pregnancy
Discrimination: EEOC's New Pregnant Worker Guidelines: What
Employers Need to Know, by Daniel Taylor, Fibdlaw, July 6, 2014.
Pregnancy
Discrimination: EEOC Guidelines on
Pregnant Employees (2014).
President’s Office of Legal Counsel
Budget
request and job description.
During the G. W. Bush administration, the OLC issued controversial opinions
pertaining to interrogation of detainees and warrantless surveillance. As a
result of President Obama’s Executive Order of Jan. 22, 2009 (to close the Guantanamo Bay
Detention Camp), implementation of the EO "will raise numerous legal
issues, thereby placing OLC at the center of some of the most fundamental policy
shifts of the new Administration."
Prison Industries
Report:
Congressional Research Service: Federal Prison Industries (updated 2007).
Prison & Jail Employees
Prison & Jail Employees:
"Federal Bureau of Prisons: Enhanced Screening of BOP Correctional
Officer Candidates Could Reduce Likelihood of Misconduct, Evaluation and
Inspections," Report
I-2011-002, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of the Inspector General (September
2011). The report indicates that arrests of federal prison guards increased by
almost 90% in the past ten years, and states that this may be because of poor
hiring practices during a period which saw a 25 percent increase in prison
growth. The number of misconduct investigations doubled, and over half of the
alleged offenses were committed during an officer's first two years on the job.
Recommendations include better background screening of applicants and
improvements in the assessment of new employees.
Prison
& Jail Employees: "Leadership
Development for Jail Administration" BJA, the Center for Innovative Public
Policies, the American Jail Association, and the Correctional Management Institute
of Texas, (June 2011) With funding from BJA, the Center for Innovative Public
Policies, the American Jail Association, and the Correctional Management
Institute of Texas, Sam Houston State University developed several tools to
enable jails to successfully develop and implement their own leadership
development and succession planning initiatives.
Privacy
Article: "E-mail,
fingerprints and personnel files: Recurring and emerging discovery issues in
employment litigation," 38 (1) Tort Trial & Insur. Prac. Law Journal
69-101 (Fall 2002), Amer. Bar Assn., www.abanet.org/tips.
Canada: Privacy
website
- Canadian privacy legislation, news, and other resources.
HIPAA privacy rule: HHS
National Standards to Protect
the Privacy of Personal Health Information.
"HIPAA administrative simplification:
How the privacy rule affects municipal ambulance service providers," 35
(2) The Urban Law Qtrly. (ABA) 317-351; Order information.
"Information
Management: Selected
[Federal] Agencies' Handling of Personal Information," GAO Report
GAO-02-1058 (Sept. 2002) [PDF] and "Employee Privacy: Computer-Use Monitoring
Practices and Policies of Selected Companies," Report GAO-02-717 (Sept.
2002). [PDF]
Privacy Act Notices:
The General Services Administration has published an amended system of
records notice for the
Government-wide system of travel records to enhance the government's electronic
capability. [PDF]
Privacy:
"Electronic Privacy and Employee Speech," by Pauline T. Kim, Chicago-Kent Law Review (Forthcoming 2012).
Privacy:
An Overview of Federal Statutes
Governing Wiretapping and Electronic Eavesdropping
Privacy: Federal
Spending on Surveillance
webpage.
Privacy guidance: OMB
Guidance for Implementing the
Privacy Provisions of the E-Government Act of 2002.
Privacy
- HHS Guidance: "The confidentiality of alcohol and drug abuse patient
records regulation and the HIPAA Privacy Rule: Implications for alcohol
and substance abuse programs."
Revised
FAQ HIPAA webpage.
Workplace searches: When Does an Employer's Search of Employee Work
Areas Violate Privacy Rights? Police Chief, Aug. 2008
Promotions
Justice
Department Documents: "U.S. Justice Department Settles
Allegations of Employment Discrimination in Promotion of Police Sergeants in
New Jersey," press release
(Aug. 1, 2011).
Promotions:
Article,
"An Exploratory Study of Two Decades of Promotional Testing in a
Metropolitan Police Department," by Bruce W. Topp, Journal of Police & Criminal Psychology (Nov. 2010).
Psychological screening, psychological counseling,
and polygraph:
Deception
techniques: Polygraph and Credibility Assessment Program, DoD Directive 5210.48 (2007,
replacing 1984 version).
Measuring the Mind: A Comparison of Personality Testing to
Polygraph Testing in the Hiring Process, by Jennifer Nevins, 109 Penn St. L. Rev. 857, Penn
State Law Review (2005).
National security -
polygraph: U.S. Dept. of Energy publishes a final rule to establish new counterintelligence
evaluation regulations to minimize the potential for disclosure of classified
information, data, and materials, effective Oct. 30, 2006. 71 (189)
Federal Register 57386-57397
(9/29/2006).
Psychological
counseling - article: "Acute Psychological Intervention for Law
Enforcement Personnel Following Trauma Exposure: What Is Current Best
Practice?" by Mark Creamer, PhD, Director, Australian Centre for
Posttraumatic Mental Health, University of Melbourne, 6 (3) Law
Enforcement Executive Forum 135.
Psychological
counseling - article: "Emergency Responder Exhaustion Syndrome (ERES):
A Perspective on Stress, Coping, and Treatment in the Emergency Responder
Milieu," by Fay, Kamena, Benner, Buscho and Nagle, 6 (3) Law
Enforcement Executive Forum 159.
Psychological
screening - police applicants - Article: "Police Officer Selection:
History and Forensic Implications" and "The M-PULSE Methodology and
Inventory," 6 (2) Law Enforcement Executive Forum 27, 32 (Feb. 2006).
Psychology:
Article:
Good Decisions: Tips and Strategies for Avoiding Psychological Traps, by Brian Fitch, FBI Law
Enforcement Bulletin (Jun. 2010).
Book:
Personality Assessment In Police Psychology: A 21st Century Perspective, ISBN 978-0-39807-915-4, Charles
C Thomas (Jun. 2010).
Public Records
Public
record archives: The National Archives and Records Administration has
revised its regulations to provide for the appropriate management and
disposition of short-term temporary e-mail (no more than 180 days). 71 Fed.
Reg. 8806 (2/21/06; eff. 3/23/26).
Racial Profiling
Race Discrimination: Workplace
Policies Prohibiting Natural Hairstyles Under Fire in Recent Legislation,
by Jeffrey
Campolongo and Miranda Curtis, Law.com (July 18, 2019).
Racial
Profiling: U.S. Department of Justice, Guidance
for Federal Law Enforcement Agencies Regarding the Use of Race, Ethnicity,
Gender, National Origin, Religion, Sexual Orientation, or Gender Identity (December 2014).
Recruiting
Recruiting: Article,
"Getting Up to Speed: Embracing
Internet Technology to Recruit," MSPB Issues of Merit (Apr. 2009).
Reductions in force:
Article:
Downsizing and Organizational Change
Survivors and Victims: Mental Health Issues, 7 (1) Int. J. of Applied Mgmt. &
Tech. 91.
Religious Organizations
& Discrimination
Justice
Department releases a ten-year report detailing RLUIPA enforcement.
Religious
discrimination: "An Employer's Guide to Religious Accommodation," written by the Sikh American
Legal Defense and Education Fund. [PDF]
Religious Liberty in Federal Law: Federal Law Protection for Religious Liberty,
memorandum for all executive departments and agencies by U.S. Attorney General
Jeff Sessions, October 6, 2017. [Includes sections intended to guide issues of
religious liberty for federal employees].
Religious
organizations: The President has issued an Executive Order to create "Centers for
Faith-Based and Community Initiatives" within designated executive branch
agencies, to reduce obstacles to the participation of faith-based organizations
that provide social and community services.
Retaliation:
Report:
Prohibited Personnel Practices - A
Study Retrospective, U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (Jun. 2010).
Retaliatory
Personnel Actions: Enforcement Guidance
on Retaliation and Related Issues, EEOC (August 29, 2016).
Secrecy
Secrecy:
President Bush reaffirmed Executive Order 13292 and on Dec. 31, 2006, with certain
limitations, "all classified records that (1) are more than 25 years old
and (2) have been determined to have permanent historical" value under
Title 44, U.S. Code, "shall be automatically declassified whether or not
the records have been reviewed."
Secrecy
and confidentiality: List of Controlled
Unclassified Information (sensitive, and not publicly disclosed).
Secrecy and
confidentiality: National Security
Agency Guide, “Redacting with Confidence: How to Safely Publish Sanitized Reports
Converted From Word to PDF.”
Secrecy
and confidentiality: Reducing Government Secrecy: Finding What Works, by Steven Aftergood, 27 Yale
Law & Policy Rev. 399-416 (2009).
Security Clearances
Security Clearance: Security
Clearance Process: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions, Congressional Research Service, #R43216 (Sep. 9,
2013).
Security clearances: The
Defense Dept. has issued an interim final rule establishing new adjudicative
guidelines for determining eligibility for government security clearances. Dept.
of Defense Personnel Security Program Regulation, 71 (168) Federal Register 51474, 32 CFR Part 154 [Aug.
30, 2006].
Sex Discrimination
Earnings
disparities: Article, Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and
the Earnings Gap, Andrea Ichino
& Enrico Moretti, 1 (1) Applied Economics (AEA) 183-218 (Jan. 2009); Natl.
Bur. of Economic Research Working Paper 12369 (2008).
Pregnancy:
Pregnancy Discrimination Act, by Lisa Baker,
Mar. 2008 FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
Sex
discrimination: "The Seventh Circuit's Erosion of the Equal Pay
Act," Jessica L. Lindsted,
1 Seventh Cir. Rev. 129 (2996).
Sexual Harassment
Sexual Harassment: Chief’s
Counsel: Reducing Sexual Harassment and Other Police Sexual Misconduct by
Pam McDonald, The Police Chief (May 2018).
Sexual Harassment: The Handling of Sexual Harassment and Misconduct
Allegations by the Department's Law Enforcement Components, Evaluation and
Inspections Report #15-04, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector
General (March 26, 2015).
Sexual
Harassment: The Handling of Sexual
Harassment and Misconduct Allegations by the Department's Law Enforcement
Components, Evaluation and Inspections Report 15-04, U.S. Department
of Justice, Office of the Inspector General (March 26, 2015).
Sexual
Harassment: “Supervisors, Sex, and the
Seventh Circuit: No Should Always Mean No,” 4 Seventh Cir. Rev. 291 (2009).
Sexual Misconduct
Prison
Rape and Sexual Abuse: Anti-Fraternization
Policies and their Utility in Preventing Staff Sexual Abuse in Custody, by Brenda V.
Smith and Melissa C. Loomis, Project on Addressing Prison Rape, American
University, Washington College of Law (May 1, 2013).
Sexual
Misconduct: Addressing Sexual Offenses
and Misconduct by Law Enforcement: Executive Guide, International
Association of Chiefs of Police (June 2011).
Shift Length
Shift
Length: "The Impact of Shift Length in Policing on Performance,
Health, Quality of Life, Sleep, Fatigue, and Extra-Duty Employment," A Final Report Submitted to
the: National Institute of Justice by Karen L. Amendola, Ph.D., David Weisburd,
Ph.D., Edwin E. Hamilton, M.A., Greg Jones, M.A., Meghan Slipka, M.A. with Anneke
Heitmann, Ph.D., Jon Shane, Ph.D., Christopher Ortiz, Ph.D., Eliab Tarkghen,
B.S. (January, 2012).
Sick Leave
Sick
leave (federal): OPM Proposal, 5 CFR Part
630, 74 (176) Fed. Reg. 46934 (Sep. 14, 2009).
Sleep Deprivation
Sleep
Cycles: The Centers for Disease Control has reported that during 2007–2010, 60.4%
of U.S. adults aged =20 years slept 7–9 hours at night, 37.3% slept 6 hours or
less, and 2.3% slept 10 hours or more. Non-Hispanic black adults were less
likely to report sleeping 7–9 hours and more likely to report sleeping 6 hours
or less than non-Hispanic white and Hispanic adults. View report, 62 (36) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 755 (9/13/2013).
Sleep Deprivation: "Sleep Disorders, Health, and Safety in Police
Officers," by Shantha M. W. Rajaratnam, Laura K. Barger, Steven W.
Lockley, Steven A. Shea, Wei Wang, Christopher P. Landrigan, Conor S. O’Brien,
Salim Qadri, Jason P. Sullivan, Brian E. Cade, Lawrence J. Epstein, David P.
White, and Charles A. Czeisler, for the Harvard Work Hours, Health and Safety
Group, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) 2011;
306(23):2567-2578. The article indicates that as many as 40% of all police
officers suffer from sleep disorders. Subscription
or one-time access fee required. Abstract.
Social Media
Social
Media: A
Guide to the Pitfalls and Perils of Social Media in the Workplace, by Maja
M. Obradovic and Jemi Goulian Lucey, New Jersey Law Journal (February 01, 2019).
Social
Media: Social Media: Legal Challenges
and Pitfalls for Law Enforcement Agencies, by Michael T. Pettry, FBI Law
Enforcement Bulletin (December 2014).
Social
Media: "COPS Report: Social Media
and Tactical Considerations For Law Enforcement," Police Executive Research
Forum (PERF) (May 2013).
Social
Media: "Interactive Social Media: The Value for Law
Enforcement," by Timothy J. Henton, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (September
2013).
Social
Media: "Social Media: Establishing Criteria for Law
Enforcement Use," by Robert D. Stuart, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (Feb. 2013).
Social Media: On
May 2, 2012, Maryland became the first state in the country to enact a law Labor
and Employment Ch. 234, Sections 3-712 (Annotated Code of Maryland) prohibiting employers from requiring either
job applicants or current employees to reveal their login user names and
passwords for social media accounts such as Facebook or Twitter. While signed
by the governor, it will not take effect until Oct. 1, 2012.
Staffing
Staffing: "Austin Police Department. Patrol Utilization Study.
Final Report," Police Executive Research Forum (July 2012).
Statistical Information
Book: 2003 Federal Employees Almanac. Pay, benefits,
leaves, retirement, legal rulings, employment policies and procedures, etc.
Bureau
of Justice Statistics data:
Race and sex of personnel in agencies with 100+ police officers, including expenditures
and pay, operations, equipment, computers and information systems, policies and
programs, and community policing. NCJ 171861.
Discrimination
complaint filings: The EEOC reports that in FY 2003, people filed 28,526
charges of race discrimination, 19,124 charges of age discrimination and 2,532
charges of religious discrimination. The religious complaints including the
wearing of religious apparel, scheduling to observe Sabbaths or religious
holidays, and other claims. EEOC Charge Statistics FY 1992-2003.
EEO statistics: EEOC
Litigation Statistics, FY
1992 through 2002.
GAO Reports: FBI Continues to Make Progress in Its Efforts to
Transform and Address Priorities.
Federal Law
Enforcement: Information on Use of Investigation and Arrest Statistics.
News item: The U.S. Merit
Systems Protection Board reports that 68% of all surveyed federal agencies fail
to e-mail their current employees about job vacancies, and only 44% post job
announcements on their agency websites. (10/21/02). "Agencies Fail to Use Obvious Recruitment Tools," MSPB Issues
of Merit (Sep. 2002) p.3. [PDF]
Officer Productivity: Improving Motivation and Productivity of Police
Officers, by Jay Fortenbery, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (August 2015).
Police
mortality rates - report: Iowa law enforcement officers mortality
rate study findings
(2005).
Report: The Bureau of
National Affairs, Inc. has reported that state and local government wage
contracts for 2002 provided an average increase of 3.8 percent, compared with
4.1 percent in 2001. Ref: 41 (1994) G.E.R.R. (BNA) 100.
Report: The Equal
Employment Opportunity Cmsn. has issued the 2001 statistics for "Occupational Employment in
Private Industry by Race/Ethnic Group/Sex, and by Industry."
Statistics:
State and Local Law Enforcement
Training Academies, 2013, by Brian A. Reaves, Bureau of Justice Statistics (July
21, 2016 NCJ 249784).
Statistics: Sheriffs' Office Personnel, 1993–2013, by Andrea M.
Burch, Bureau of Justice Statistics (June 16, 2016 NCJ 249757).
Statistics: National Sources of Law Enforcement Employment Data, by Duren Banks,
Joshua Hendrix, Matthew Hickman, Tracey Kyckelhahn, Bureau of Justice
Statistics (April 26, 2016 NCJ 249681).
Statistics: Local Police Departments, 2013: Equipment and
Technology, by Brian A. Reaves, Bureau of Justice Statistics (July 7, 2015 NCJ
248767).
Statistics: Local Police Departments, 2013: Personnel, Policies,
and Practices, by Brian A. Reaves, Bureau of Justice Statistics, May 14, 2015 NCJ
248677.
Statistics:
Justice Expenditure and Employment
Extracts, 2012 - Preliminary, by Tracey Kyckelhahn, Bureau of Justice Statistics
(February 26, 2015 NCJ 248628).
Statistics:
Crime Against Persons with
Disabilities, 2009-2012 - Statistical Tables, by Erika Harrell. Bureau of Justice
Statistics (February 25, 2014) NCJ 244525.
Statistics:
"Justice Expenditures and Employment, 1982-2007 - Statistical
Tables," by Tracey
Kyckelhahn, Ph.D. (December 16, 2011 NCJ 236218).
Pay
levels and job retention: "Federal Uniformed Police: Selected
Data on Pay, Recruitment, and
Retention at 13 Police Forces in the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area,"
Report No. GAO-03-658 (2003). [PDF]
Federal
personnel: U.S. Office of Personnel Management's 2002 Performance and Accountability Report [PDF] and the
Federal Civilian Workforce Statistics
Fact Book
Statistics: "Workplace Violence Against Government Employees,
1994-2011," by Erika Harrell, Ph.D., April 11, 2013 NCJ 241349.
Statistics:
"Hiring and Retention of State and Local Law
Enforcement Officers, 2008 - Statistical Tables," by Brian A. Reaves, Ph.D.
(October 29, 2012 NCJ 238251).
Statistics:
"Sheriffs' Offices, 2007 - Statistical Tables," by Andrea
M. Burch (December 6, 2012 NCJ 238558).
Uniform
Crime Reports: Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted, 2004.
Stress and Suicide
Final report of the DoD task force on the
prevention of suicide by members of the Armed Services (Aug. 2010).
National
P.O.L.I.C.E. Suicide Foundation, Inc. provides training programs and support services on suicide awareness
and prevention.
New
book: Traumatic Stress in Police Officers: A Career-Length
Assessment, ISBN
978-0-398-07894-2 (CC Thomas, 2009).
New book:
Processing Under Pressure: Stress,
Memory and Decision-Making in Law Enforcement, ISBN 978-1-932777-89-5 (Looseleaf
Law Pub., 2009).
Officer Suicide: Addressing Officer Crisis and Suicide: Improving
Officer Wellness, by Brian R. Nanavaty, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (September 2015).
Police suicides: "Police Suicide: Can it be prevented?" by John M. Violanti, Ph.D.
Post-Traumatic
Stress: Guide: Combat Deployment and the Returning Police Officer, Institute for Law and Justice,
Alexandria, VA.
Psychic
trauma: Book, "Psychological Injuries at Trial," A.B.A. Tort Trial and
Insurance Practice Section
A Prospective Study
of Trait Anger and PTSD Symptoms in Police, by Meffert et al., 21 (4) Journal of Traumatic Stress 410-416 (Aug.
2008). DOI: 10.1002/jts.20350.
Stress: "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Other Mental
Health Problems in the Military: Oversight Issues for Congress,"
Congressional Research Service (Aug. 2013).
Stress: "Changing Police Subculture," by Mark
Malmin, FBI Law
Enforcement Bulletin (April 2012).
Sress: Addressing Correctional Officer Stress: Programs and
Strategies, National Institute of Justice, NCJ-183474 (2000).
Stress: "Vicarious Traumatization and Spirituality in Law
Enforcement," by Lynn A. Tovar, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (July 2011).
Stress:
Revised
book, Cop Shock, Surviving
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, by Allen Kates, ISBN-13: 9780966850123 (2nd
edit. 2008).
Stress:
"Dealing with Employee Stress: How Managers Can Help -- or Hinder --
Their Personnel," 75 (7) FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (July, 2006).
Stress:
"Identifying law enforcement stress reactions early," FBI
Law. Enf. Bulletin, Sep. 2003,
p. 12. [PDF]
Stress
related article: Trauma Resilience Training for Police:
Psychophysiological and Performance Effects, Bengt B. Arnetz et al., 24 Journal
of Police and Criminal Psychology (Springer) 1-9 (2009). Abstract.
Stress-related:
Article: "Mental
Health Status of World Trade Center Rescue and Recovery Workers and Volunteers:
N.Y. City, Jul. 2002-Aug. 2004," 53 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
(CDC) #45 (9-10-2004). [PDF]
Stress-related - book: Traumatic
Stress in Police Officers: A Career-length Assessment from Recruitment to
Retirement, By D. Paton, J. Violanti, K. Burke & A. Gehrke, Charles C
Thomas Pub., ISBN-13: 9780398078935 (Oct. 2009).
"Suicide and
Law Enforcement,"
(2002) by the Behavioral Science Unit, FBI Academy in Quantico, VA. The 61
article book examines suicide and its impact on law enforcement. A CD version
will be available in the near future. It can be purchased from the Government
Printing Office.
Stress
claims: Online article, "Workplace Stress Claims Resulting from
September 11th" by Frances
Codd Slusarz, 18 (2) The Labor Lawyer (ABA) 137 (Fall 2002). [PDF and print
format]
Stress
and work addiction: "Police Work Addiction: A Cautionary Tale" by
Gerard J. Solan, M.A., and Jean M. Casey, Ph.D., FBI Law Enf. Bulletin, June
2003. www.fbi.gov/
[Online and print format]
Stress-Related:
Article, "Handling the Stress of the
Electronic World," by James D. Sewell, Ph.D., FBI Law Enforcement
Bulletin, Aug. 2003. [PDF]
Stress
Related: Article, "Issues in Small Town Policing: Understanding
Stress," 73 (7) FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin 24, July, 2004. [PDF]
Suicide:
Police Suicide: Are You at Risk? Orlando
Ramos, Ph.D., FBI Law Enf. Bulletin (May 2010).
Suicide:
Article,
"By Their Own Hand: Suicide Among
Law Enforcement Personnel," 2 (4) Community Policing Dispatch (Apr. 2009).
Suicide
Officer Suicide: Addressing Officer Crisis and Suicide: Improving
Officer Wellness, by Brian R. Nanavaty, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (September 2015).
On
the Edge: Recent Perspectives on Police Suicide, by John Violanti, et al., ISBN 13-9780398086329, C. C.
Thomas (2011).
Police Suicide: Blue
H.E.L.P., a non-profit organization that maintains a statistical database
on police suicides.
Sunshine Act
Transparency
- Book:
The American Bar Assn. has updated its 1978 book, "An Interpretive Guide to the [Federal] Government in the Sunshine
Act."
Supervision
"The Two Roles
of Supervision in Performance Counseling," by Brian Fitch, Ph.D., FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (March 2011).
Taxation
Tax
Publication: IRS No. 3920, Tax Relief for Victims of Terrorist
Attacks. [PDF]
Taxation: The
Internal Revenue Service has updated its Federal-State Reference Guide that
provides information on social security, Medicare and tax withholding for state
and local governments and their employees. Publication 963 (2005).
Taxation: IRS
website has links to
publications and forms with tax information for armed services members.
Taxation
-- mileage rate allowance: Because of rising gas prices, the IRS has
increased the standard mileage rates for the final four months of 2005 from
40.5 to 48.5 cents per mile for all deductible miles driven; IR-2005-99 (9/9/05). The GSA has matched that
rate for federal workers using personal vehicles for government business.
Website: Military income tax preparation guide.
Website:
Updated
federal per diem rates for lodging, meals and incidentals are on a web site at www.gsa.gov/. Click on "Travel on Government
Business," and "Per Diem Rates."
Technology
Computer Security: Leadership
Spotlight - Importance of Cybersecurity,
by Nathaniel B. White, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (Feb. 5, 2019).
Technology:
The Considerations and Risks of
Personal Communication Devices, by Leslie Stevens, Police Chief (May 2015).
Technology: Body-Worn Cameras for Criminal Justice: Market
Survey,
National Institute of Justice (Mar. 2014).
Technology: "How Are Innovations in Technology Transforming
Policing?," Police Executive Research Forum (January 2012)
Training:
"High-Technology Environment
Training (HiTET): Embracing Modern Challenges," by Shawn Matthews, FBI Law
Enforcement Bulletin (June 2013).
Teleworking
Book: Handbook for Managing Teleworkers: A Five-Step
Management Process, by Philpott & Gurvis, Government Training Inc., ISBN:
978-0-9844038-2-0, 212 pp. (May 2010).
Telework
- report: "Agency Telework Methodologies: Departments of Commerce,
Justice, State, (etc.)," GAO-05-1055R (2005).
Teleworking: "Telework: Weighing the Information, Determining an
Appropriate Approach," The Office of Policy and Evaluation of the Merit
System Protection Board (October 2011).
Teleworking:
The OPM reported that a total of 752,337 federal employees were declared
eligible to telework by their agencies last year, and 140,694 employees
actually teleworked in 2004. The Status of Telework in the Federal
Government 2005.
Teleworking report: "Making
Telework a Federal Priority: Security is Not the Issue" [PDF]
Telework:
A Management Priority - A Guide for Managers, Supervisors, and Telework Coordinators
U.S.
Office of Personnel Management Links to Telework/Telecommuting sites
Terrorism, Homeland Security, National Security Issues
Antiterrorism --
Skymarshal Program: Dept. of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector
General, "Evaluation of the Federal Air Marshal Service," August 2004, 56 pages, PDF
format). The report chronicles how federal air marshals have slept on the job,
tested positive for alcohol or drugs while on duty, lost their weapons and
falsified information.
Antiterrorism
reports: GAO Online, Building Security:
Security Responsibilities for Federally Owned and Leased Facilities and Using Biometrics for Border Security. [PDF]
Article: The U.S. Patriot
Act of 2001: Changes to electronic
surveillance laws.
Bioterrorism:
Army Regulation 380-86,
Chemical Warfare, Chemical and Biological Defense, and Nuclear, Biological,
Chemical Contamination Survivability Information, declassified Feb. 1, 2005.
[PDF]
Biological threats: Article: "Responding to Detection of
Aerosolized Bacillus Anthracis by Autonomous Detection Systems in the
Workplace," 53 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (CDC) #07 (6-4-2004).
Bioterrorism:
"Armed Services Smallpox Vaccination: Medical Research and Military
Necessity," 30 (2) Human
Rights (ABA) 6 (2003). [Online and print format]
Bioterrorism:
Public Health Response to Anthrax Incidents of 2001, U.S. General Accounting Office (Oct.
2003). [PDF]
Book: The
U.S. Intelligence Community Law Sourcebook: A Compendium of National Security Related Laws and
Policy Documents, by Andrew M. Borene, ABA Book Pub., ISBN: 978-1-60442-979-4
(Jun. 2010).
Counterinsurgency,
intelligence and surveillance manual: U.S. Army Field Manual 3-24 on
Counterinsurgency (202 pp., Dec.
2006)
Emergency
Communications: Statement released by the
National Cmsn. on Terrorist Attacks in the U.S. regarding communication
difficulties among NYC police, fire and other emergency rescue personnel on
Sep. 11, 2001 at the WTC. [PDF]
Fiscal:
Dept. of Homeland Security FY 2006 Budget and Dept. of Justice FY 2006 Budget request press
release.
Homeland
Security Personnel Reports: Human Resources Management System Review
Committee reports.
Homeland
security website: The Justice Dept. has created a National Security Resources
website for the criminal justice community, at: www.nationalsecurityresources.gov/
Intelligence: Commission
on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of
Mass Destruction, Executive Order 13328 (Feb. 6, 2004).
Intelligence - Fact Sheet on the new Dept. of Justice National
Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan.
Intelligence
officer's liability: The CIA announced that it will now pay the full cost of
legal liability insurance for qualified employees. Private carriers cover legal
expenses and damages arising out of a CIA officer's official duties. It is
meant to cover potential litigation expenses, including damages.
The
Office of Counterintelligence, U.S. Dept. of Energy proposes to reduce
substantially the number of polygraph exams administered, 70 (5) Federal
Register 1383-1396 (Jan. 7,
2005).
National
Security Contingency Plans of
the U.S. Government.
National
security:
1.
President Obama announced a new
approach to classification of government documents, in light of his pledge to
increase transparency. President’s remarks at the National Archives (2009).
2.
Report, The State Secrets Privilege and Other
Limits on Litigation Involving Classified Information, Congressional Research Service #R40603 (2009).
3.
Report, Dept. of Homeland Security Intelligence
Enterprise: Operational Overview and Oversight Challenges for Congress, Congressional Research Service
#R40602 (2009).
National security classified
information: The President's amendments to the Executive Order on
Classified National Security Information. Executive Order 13292 (2003).
National security --
interrogations: The American Psychological Association's governing body has
endorsed a Task Force Report on Psychological Ethics and National
Security that establishes strict
ethical guidelines for psychologists who participate in national
security-related investigations and interrogations.
National security --
interrogations: The American Psychological Association has reaffirmed its
policy against the use of torture and other
cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. Psychologists have an ethical
obligation to report abusive behaviors to the authorities.
National security -
polygraph: U.S. Dept. of Energy publishes a final rule to establish new
counterintelligence evaluation regulations to minimize the potential for
disclosure of classified information, data, and materials, effective Oct. 30,
2006. 71 (189) Federal Register 57386-57397 (9/29/2006).
Online
Report: Inspector General's Review of the FBI's
Counterterrorism Program. OIG Report #02-38, Sep. 2002.
Personnel
identification: The U.S. Office of Management and Budget has issued guidance to federal agencies advising them how
to comply with a Homeland Security Dept. directive creating a universal personal
identification verification system for federal employees and contractors. [PDF]
Policing
occupied territories: Private Security
Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan: Legal Issues. Congressional Research
Service (Dec. 22, 2009).
Secrecy: Online
interview, "Government Secrecy in the Age of Information," Biodefense
Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 1,
published online by the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense
Strategies, Summer 2003. [PDF]
Surveillance:
The
multi-agency Inspector Generals’ Unclassified
Report on the President’s Surveillance Program.
Tax Publication: IRS
No. 3920, Tax Relief for Victims of Terrorist Attacks. [PDF]
Terrorism: Increasing Terrorism Preparedness of Law Enforcement
Agencies, by Jeremy W. Francis, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (December 2014).
Terrorism: Increasing Terrorism Preparedness of Law Enforcement
Agencies, by Jeremy W. Francis, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (December 2014).
Terrorism:
Federal Efforts to Address the
Threat of Bioterrorism: Selected Issues for Congress, Congressional Research
Service (March 2010).
Terrorism: A DoJ Report to the Congress describes the use of
new powers authorized under the USA PATRIOT Act (May 13, 2003). [PDF]
Terrorism
- DoJ-IG report: A Review of the FBI's Handling of Intelligence
Information Prior to the September 11 Attacks. (2005).
Terrorism: Final
Report on 9/11 Commission Recommendations, Dec. 5, 2005.
Terrorism-report:
GAO study confirms that private insurance carriers have concluded that
terrorist attacks involving nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological
weapons are not an insurable risk. GAO-06-1081 (Sep.2006).
Weapons of mass
destruction: White House Memo to agency chiefs: "Action to safeguard information regarding
weapons of mass destruction and other sensitive documents related to homeland
security."
Website: Dept. of Homeland
Security employees' information page. (click on
employees)
Training
Safety
Equipment: OSHA clarifies employer responsibilities to provide respirators or other
protective equipment and relevant training. Employer Duty to Provide Personal Protective Equipment and Train Each
Employee, Docket No. OSHA-2008-0031, 73 Federal Register 75568-589 (Dec. 12,
2008).
Statistics:
State and Local Law Enforcement
Training Academies, 2013, by Brian A. Reaves, Bureau of Justice Statistics (July
21, 2016 NCJ 249784).
Training:
Perspective: Value
Your Training Program, by Michael VanMeter, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
(Dec. 14, 2018).
Training:
Mental Preparedness Training, by Judith P.
Andersen, Konstantinos Papazoglou, Harri Gustafsberg, Peter Collins, and Bengt
Arnetz, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (March 2016).
Training: Emergency Medical Response in Active-Threat
Situations: Training Standards for Law Enforcement, by John M.
Landry, Sara J. Aberle, Andrew J. Dennis, and Matthew D. Sztajnkrycer, FBI Law
Enforcement Bulletin (March 2015).
Training: Educating Police Executives in a New Community
Problem-Solving Era, by Michael J. Jenkins and John DeCarlo, FBI Law
Enforcement Bulletin (May 2014).
Training:
Officer Survival Spotlight. By the Numbers:
Turning LEOKA Data into Training Opportunities, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (April
2014).
Training:
"High-Technology Environment
Training (HiTET): Embracing Modern Challenges," by Shawn Matthews, FBI Law
Enforcement Bulletin (June 2013).
Training:
"Terror Liaison Officer Training," by J.T.
McBride, FBI Law
Enforcement Bulletin (Feb. 2013).
Training:
"Focus on Training: Interpersonal Skills Training in Police Academy
Curriculum," by Peter J.
McDermott and Diana Hulse, Ed.D., FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (February 2012).
Training: "The Importance of Privacy, Civil Rights, and Civil
Liberties Protections in American Law Enforcement and Public Safety" is a
training video that was developed by the U.S. Department of Justice's Global
Justice Information Sharing Initiative's Criminal Intelligence Coordinating
Council to assist local, state, and tribal law enforcement line officers in
understanding their role in the protection of privacy, civil rights, and civil
liberties as they perform their everyday duties.
Training:
Free speech - IACP Training Key #612, Freedom of Speech and the Patrol Officer
Training:
"Lessons Learned from an Analysis of Correctional Officer Training in
the United States," by Emran Khan, 6 (5) Law Enforcement Executive
Forum 131-159 (Sep. 2006).
Training:
"Law Enforcement Professionalism: Training is the
Key,"
by Anthony J. Pinizzotto, Shannon Bohrer, and Edward F. Davis, FBI Law
Enforcement Bulletin (April 2011). "A significant factor in the history of
law enforcement professionalism is training."
Vaccinations
Vaccine
Policy Issues, a report by the
Congressional Research Service.
Vehicle Safety
Vehicle Safety: "Emergency Vehicle Safety," by Thomas
J. Connelly, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (February 2012).
Veterans
Veterans:
New book info, Civil Service Handbook for Ex-Military Personnel, by Federal Employees News Digest,
ISBN: 0-910582-67-X.
Veteran's Rights: MSPB's Office of
Policy and Evaluation has released a new report, "Veteran Hiring in the Civil Service: Practices and
Perceptions".
Video Recording
Video
Recording: "The Right to Speak
with Another's Voice—Why the Seventh Circuit Should Characterize the Right to
Record as the Limited Right to Gather Information Under the First Amendment," by Prava
Palacharla, 8 Seventh Circuit Rev. 416 (2013).
Websites
Addiction
and rehabilitation: Health & Human Services National Alcohol and Drug
Addiction Recovery informational
website.
Cruise ships: Crime victim's
assistance website.
F.B.I.: New
website for the F.B.I. Law Enforcement Bulletin (Oct. 2017).
Female applicant
assistance: Scottsdale, AZ Police Women and
Policing website, with advice to female applicants and fitness protocols
(including detailed instructions and photos demonstrating the requirements).
Identification
"smart" cards: Personal Identity Verification of federal employees and contractors
website.
Websites: Caselaw Access Project API, also known as
CAPAPI, is a website offered by Harvard University Law School which provides
free access to all official U.S. court cases published in books from 1658 to
2018 in multiple text formats. While occasional use requires no registration,
free registration may be required for regular heavy use.
Websites: Law
Enforcement and Corrections Commons. Links to 3,066 full text articles,
indexed by topic.
Websites: Smaller
Law Enforcement Agency Program website (IACP).
Website:
copsandhookers.com --
"A night club owner's site devoted to exposing organized crime under the
guise of law enforcement."
Website: Dept. of Homeland Security employees' information page. (click on
employees)
Website: New federal website,
for individuals to find and comment on proposed rules being considered by
federal agencies: http://www.regulations.gov/
Website - FLSA/overtime claims: A
U.S. Dept. of Labor chart
compares the current requirements for exemption as an executive,
administrative, professional, computer or outside sales employee with the new
proposed regulations.
Website:"Support
Teresa Chambers" (the
outspoken U.S. Park Police chief).
Website: "Statement of the National Park Service
concerning ... Park Police Chief Teresa Chambers [being] placed on
administrative leave."
Whistleblowing
Book: "The Art of Anonymous Activism: Serving the Public
While Surviving Public Service," a how-to whistleblower guide for public
employees, by the Project On Government Oversight. ($10)
The
(Federal) Whistleblower Protection Act: An Overview, Congressional Research Service Doc. RL33918 (Mar.
2007).
Online whistleblower
documents: A financial and a security memo on stolen, lost and missing property at the
Los Alamos National Laboratory. [PDF]
Regulations: OSHA issues interim final rules on various
whistleblower procedures.
Report: U.S. Merit
Systems Protection Board, Whistleblower
Protections for Federal Employees (2010).
Report:
Prohibited Personnel Practices, Merit Systems Protection Board (June 2010).
Whistleblowers: Report on Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act
of 2009, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Report No.
111-101, Dec. 3, 2009.
Whistleblowers
-- Report: "Homeland
and National Security Whistleblower Protections: The Unfinished Agenda."
Whistleblower
Manual:
Revised OSHA directive # DIS 0-0.9. [PDF]
Whistleblower
Procedures: Dept. of Labor, "Handling of discrimination complaints
under sec. 806 of the Corporate and Criminal Fraud Accountability Act of
2002," Final Rule 69:52103-52117
Whistleblower
Protection: Online book, "Whistleblowing: When It Works--And
Why."
Whistleblowing:
"Blowing the Whistle: Barriers to Federal Employees
Making Disclosures," Office of Policy and Evaluation of the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) (November
2011).
Women and Policing
Female
applicant assistance: Scottsdale, AZ Police Women and Policing website, with advice to female applicants and fitness protocols
(including detailed instructions and photos demonstrating the requirements).
Female Employees: Women in the Federal Government: Ambitions and
Achievements, Merit Systems Protection Board (May 24, 2011).
Female
Officers: “The Feminine Arm of the Law: Police Wives, Policewomen, and Gender
Politics in the Chicago Police Department, 1950 – 1984," by Megan Adams
Labor (2013) 10(2): 77-103. Abstract. Full Text for purchase.
Pregnancy:
Pregnancy Discrimination Act, by Lisa Baker,
Mar. 2008 FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
Workers' Compensation
Statistics:
"Justice Expenditure and Employment Extracts, 2010 -
Preliminary," by Tracey Kyckelhahn and Tara Martin (July 1, 2013 NCJ 242544).
Workers'
Compensation: Worker`s Compensation Program, Federal Bureau of
Prisons Program Statement 1601.04 CN-1 (March 30, 2015).
Workplace Diversity
Workplace
Diversity: Diversity in the Workplace, by Anni Lori
Foster, Police Chief (June. 2015).
Workplace Safety
Body
armor: DoJ to provide $33.6 million to assist law enforcement in replacing Zylon ballistic
vests.
Firefighter
safety: OSHA publication: Fire Service
Features of Buildings and Fire Protection Systems
Firefighter
safety: NIOSH draft document #141: Preventing
Deaths and Injuries of Fire Fighters When Fighting Fires in Unoccupied
Structures, 73 (246) Fed. Reg. 78365 (12/22/2008).
Revised
Rules: OSHA
has revised its rules on "Exit
Routes, Emergency Action Plans, and Fire Prevention Plans." 67 Fed.
Reg. 67950 (11/7/2002).
Injuries
to employees: Following the death of a firefighter, the Centers for Disease Control
issues a NIOSH advisory warning against
using humans in a burning structure posing as "victims" during fire
training sessions.
Military Families:
The American Bar Association (ABA) has announced a new website to help military
families, including information about the Servicemembers' Civil Relief
Act. As part of its military
family support services, the ABA has created the ABA Home Front, to provide legal resources for
military families.
Officer
safety: London Police test a precise locating
system
that uses automated radio technology.
Officer
safety article: New Federal Rule Seeks to Improve Officer Visibility
at Roadside, IACP Police Chief
magazine (July 2007).
OSHA:
Advice to outdoor workers on heatstroke. [Online]
Safety
Equipment: OSHA clarifies employer responsibilities to provide respirators or other
protective equipment and relevant training. Employer Duty to Provide Personal Protective Equipment and Train Each
Employee, Docket No. OSHA-2008-0031, 73 Federal Register 75568-589 (Dec. 12,
2008).
Workplace
injuries and illnesses: "Workers' Compensation: Rx for Policy
Reform," National Center for Policy Analysis, Policy Report No. 287, Sep. 2006.
Worker safety - Report:
Preventing Fire Fighter Fatalities Due to Heart Attacks and Other Sudden Cardiovascular
Events, NIOSH Publication No. 2007-133 (2007).
Worker Visibility: New federal
regulation provides that all workers within the right-of-way of a Federal-aid
highway who are exposed to traffic “shall wear high-visibility safety apparel.”
Firefighters or other emergency responders “may wear retro reflective turn-out
gear.” 23 C.F.R. §634.3, Federal Highway Admin. Docket FHWA-2008-0157, FR Doc.
E8-27671, RIN 2125-AF28, 73 (226)
Federal Register 70593 (11/21/2008)
Worksite
Safety: "Principal Emergency Response and Preparedness
Requirements and Guidance,"
OSHA document 3122-06R (2004). [PDF]
Workplace safety website: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Workplace Searches & Security
Article: "E-mail,
fingerprints and personnel files: Recurring and emerging discovery issues in
employment litigation," 38 (1) Tort Trial & Insur. Prac. Law Journal
69-101 (Fall 2002), Amer. Bar Assn., www.abanet.org/tips.
"Computer
and Internet surveillance in the workplace," by Andrew Schulman, Fellow, Privacy
Foundation.
"Employer's
rights and responsibilities following OSHA inspections," 40 pp. (Revised 2002). [PDF]
Occupational safety: OSHA
Guidance on Preparing Workplaces
for an Influenza Pandemic.
"Warrantless
workplace searches of government employees," by Bryan R. Lemons, Branch Chief for the Legal
Division at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Glynco, GA. The
Quarterly Review, Vol. 3, Ed. 3, April 2002.
Workplace security: DHS
has created downloadable posters to provide guidance on physical and cyber security and how to report
suspicious behavior, activity, and cyber incidents.
Workplace
searches: When Does an Employer's
Search of Employee Work Areas Violate Privacy Rights? Police Chief, Aug.
2008
Workplace Violence
"Combating
Workplace Violence,"
IACP Private Sector Liaison Committee.
Published
article: "Violence at work," by Jason R. Sakis and Daniel B. Kennedy, 38
(12) Trial (ATLA) 32 (Dec. 2002). Info. at www.atla.org
Workplace
Violence: "The Phenomena of Workplace
Violence," by George Cartwright, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (August 2013).
Workplace
violence: NIOSH has produced a training video on worksite violence: Publication
No. 2004-100d.
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