Chicago IL July 10 2021 Hundreds of women are trying to join a sexual harassment lawsuit against Cook County and Sheriff Tom Dart that alleges officials didn’t do enough to stop inmates from masturbating in front of the women, who worked at the jail. Current and former Cook County correctional officers and other workers filed suit […]
PITTSBURGH P July 2 2021 The now-former general manager of a security company that is used by Highmark is being accused of defrauding Highmark. According to court records, Derek Dowiak of Indiana was the general manager of Allied Universal Security, the company that provides security to Highmark, allegedly defrauded Highmark for more than $50,000. Dowiak allegedly […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. June 6 2021 Security staff and teachers at the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice staged a walkout Friday morning in protest. Employees gathered outside of the Broad River Road Correctional Institute and say the main issues are long hours, pay, morale, and dangerous conditions. “We’re asking him (the SC DJJ Director) to […]
Washington DC May 30 2021 A D.C. police employee was sentenced to six months of intermittent incarceration and six months of home confinement for taking more than $40,000 in bribes to divulge confidential information from traffic crash reports that was later used to pitch legal and medical services to people involved in traffic crashes, prosecutors […]
San Francisco CA May 10 2021 An 11-year-old Black boy in San Francisco was stopped by security guards after they falsely accused him of stealing a sandwich at a grocery store. Ja’Mari Oliver was going back to school for the first time in more than 14 months on 26 April when he stopped to buy […]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. May 5 2021– A federal grand jury yesterday indicted two former employees of a Birmingham-area Chick-fil-A restaurant franchise, alleging that they conspired to defraud their former employer, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Patrick M. Davis. A 16-count indictment filed in U.S. District Court charges […]
Nassau County NY April 11 2021 A lawsuit filed this week by former security guard Amisha Forbes in the Eastern District of New York names NUMC, its parent company, Nassau Health Care Corp., and two current or former security officers discriminated against her. The pregnant Nassau University Medical Center security guard was forced to work […]
NEW YORK CITY NY April 3 2021 -A pair of morbid New York City mortuary technicians became ghouls gone wild, nickel-and-diming the dead out of thousands of dollars in debit card purchases, authorities said Tuesday. Charles McFadgen, 66, and Willie Garcon, 50, who worked for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, thought no one would […]
HONOLULU, Hawaii March 31 2021 The union representing a Transportation Security Administration worker who died of COVID-19 in Hawaii said the federal agency is stonewalling them on their request for workers’ compensation death benefits for his family. “This is a TSA officer who gave his life serving the public. He should not be treated that way. […]
PITTSBURGH PA March 28 2021— Two Pittsburgh Public Schools police officers are under investigation for allegedly stealing funds from taxpayers by not reporting for work, but still getting paid. On Friday, Target 11′s Rick Earle learned one of the officers resigned from their position while the other officer has been placed on unpaid leave. Sources […]