"Poole v. Orange County Fire Authority"

Fire-Helmet.jpgIn a long anticipated decision, the California Supreme Court has held that a supervisor’s daily log, or file, was not a “file used for any personnel purposes” under the Firefighters Procedural Bill of Rights.  In 2013, the Court of Appeal ruled that a fire captain’s daily log documenting firefighter performance should have been disclosed to

Fire Helmet.jpgThis blog post was authored by Gage Dungy and Stefanie K. Vaudreuil

Introduction

The Fire Fighters Procedural Bill of Rights (FBOR), enacted in 2007, was intended to provide firefighters the same rights as those guaranteed to public safety officers by the Public Safety Officers Bill of Rights (POBR).  In many areas, the FBOR contains identical