by CBJ Team | Apr 24, 2020 | Legal News
Police departments across the globe are reassessing their community policing practices in light of the coronavirus pandemic. To limit officer exposure to potentially infected individuals and to prevent the further spread of the virus, some police departments have...
by CBJ Team | Apr 15, 2020 | Legal News
Two bills have been introduced in the Ohio House of Representatives in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The first would allow first responders who contract the coronavirus to make a workers’ compensation claim. The second would apply more broadly to any employee....
by CBJ Team | Apr 13, 2020 | Legal News
The National Fraternal Order of Police has organized the following Resource Center for tracking state-by-state, locality-by-locality orders and information in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the fluid nature of COVID-19, each state is issuing and changing...
by CBJ Team | Apr 7, 2020 | Legal News
In an 8-1 Opinion delivered by Justice Thomas, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed and remanded the Kansas Supreme Court and held that when an officer lacks information negating an inference that the owner is the driver of the vehicle, a traffic stop is reasonable under...
by CBJ Team | Apr 1, 2020 | Legal News
As the world adjusts to the unprecedented pandemic known as COVID-19, many things are changing. In response to stay at home orders, social distancing rules, school closings, and strict orders against mass gatherings, many employers around the country have asked people...
by CBJ Team | Mar 21, 2020 | Legal News
On February 18, 2015, the Ohio Supreme Court settled a critical issue involving law enforcement officers in Ohio. In State of Ohio v. White, the Ohio Supreme Court held that Ohio’s firearm specification statute will not apply to police officers acting in the line of...
