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U.S. Law Enforcement Whistleblowers:
The Common Denominator of Black and Blue Lives Matter
CROWN POINT, Ind. - Jan. 14, 2016 - PRLog -- Today Golden Badge (GB) announced another milestone in helping to protect U.S. law enforcement whistleblowers from retaliation. The support group shared online its anticipated law review article, “How To Get Away With Career Murder: The Unconstitutional Blueprint for Systematically Purging Whistleblowers from U.S. Law Enforcement”. According to co-author Zena Crenshaw-Logal, the article “establishes constitutional rights unique to law enforcement whistleblowers subjected to retaliatory criminal prosecution based on false evidence.” It gives these “framed heroes” grounds to access the power of government used against them to identify those conspiring to punish their whistleblowing and exclude them from criminal law enforcement.
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Scene from June 2014 Innocence Summit hosted by Center for Prosecutor Integrity
Wednesday - July 16, 2014 at 11:45 am - 2:30 pm River Plantation RV Conference Center - 1004 Parkway, Sevierville, TN
Picketing of the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility: Thursday - July 17, 2014 at Noon - 1:30 pm @ 10 Cadillac Drive - Brentwood, TN
Panel Presentation @ 2014 Whistleblower Summit for Civil and Human Rights
Sign-on Letter Campaign
Click To Read January 29, 2015 Press Release
TO:
The American Bar Association (ABA)
Center for Professional Responsibility
321 North Clark Street
Chicago, Illinois 60654
Greetings:
I submit my electronic signature below to request an ABA model rule specifically requiring U.S. state and federal prosecutors to weigh America’s interest in punishing criminals against its need to encourage good faith disclosures of serious public and/or private sector misconduct.
Blind deference to prosecutors and their prosecution choices no longer seems prudent. It is time to acknowledge that prosecutors can undermine whistleblower protection. Please take all reasonable action to help ensure that America’s criminal justice system is not a handy tool for retaliating against whistleblowers.
Thank you for your consideration and anticipated, prompt action.
Sincerely,
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What Tennessee's Legislature
Giveth to Whistleblowers, Its Executive and
Judicial Branches Taketh Away?
(LIGHTNING RELEASES) June 5, 2014 -- According to a coalition of good government advocates, Tennessee’s executive branch through state prosecutors, and the state’s judicial branch pulled off a sleight of hand trick on the state’s legislature. The reform activists suggest as much in duplicate letters to Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam, Senator Stacey Campfield, Representatives Dale Carr and Andrew Farmer, as well as Tennessee Chief Justice Gary Wade. The letters call into question the sincerity of both Tennessee’s aggressive crack down on drunk drivers and fervent support of good faith government misconduct disclosures.
Whistleblowers Seek To Foster
Allies Among Criminal Prosecutors
February 10, 2014 (MMD Newswire) -- Today, a coalition of grassroots good government advocates reached out to the American Bar Association (ABA), requesting that it fashion a model rule of professional conduct addressing the criminal prosecution of whistleblowers. The lead groups are Plea for Justice Program (P4J) which seeks reform of America’s plea bargaining process; Golden Badge, an international association of current and former law enforcers; and a regional legal reform organization known as the Tennessee State Community Council − Sevier County Division (TennSCC-SCD). According to the Project Spokesperson, attorney Zena Crenshaw-Logal, P4J, Golden Badge, and TennSCC-SCD are “rallying for their member, Mark P. Lipton, who was indicted on questionable criminal charges only months after pursuing federal investigation of his former boss, a popular Tennessee Sheriff, for allegedly obstructing a DUI arrest.”
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