Post by Logan on Apr 25, 2016 1:57:48 GMT -6
Jacksonville police lieutenant suspended 10 days by Sheriff's Office for social media posts with racial slant
Allegations of unbecoming conduct and violations of social media policy have been sustained against a veteran Jacksonville police lieutenant who posted derisive images and racial epithets on a photo and video posting site account.
The Sheriff’s Office did not find that she was racially biased in her treatment of others in her job, but by posting the comments online on Instagram she violated code of conduct rules, according to the 21-page Internal Affairs report.
Lt. Trudy Callahan, a 20-year officer, was investigated in January after complaints that images and comments posted on her then-publicly accessible Instagram account truds137 were insulting and potentially racist and that profane remarks about the Sheriff’s Office were unfitting.
Callahan was issued a 10-day suspension after the March 29 conclusion of the investigation. She is appealing the punishment, the Sheriff’s Office said Friday. She also resigned Feb. 1 from her board of directors post with Jacksonville’s Fraternal Order of Police at the request of the union president.
Read more: jacksonville.com/news/crime/2016-04-23/story/police-lieutenant-suspended-10-days-sheriffs-office-social-media-posts?utm_source=eyepiece&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=cxense&cx_navSource=eyepiece#cxrecs_s
Allegations of unbecoming conduct and violations of social media policy have been sustained against a veteran Jacksonville police lieutenant who posted derisive images and racial epithets on a photo and video posting site account.
The Sheriff’s Office did not find that she was racially biased in her treatment of others in her job, but by posting the comments online on Instagram she violated code of conduct rules, according to the 21-page Internal Affairs report.
Lt. Trudy Callahan, a 20-year officer, was investigated in January after complaints that images and comments posted on her then-publicly accessible Instagram account truds137 were insulting and potentially racist and that profane remarks about the Sheriff’s Office were unfitting.
Callahan was issued a 10-day suspension after the March 29 conclusion of the investigation. She is appealing the punishment, the Sheriff’s Office said Friday. She also resigned Feb. 1 from her board of directors post with Jacksonville’s Fraternal Order of Police at the request of the union president.
Read more: jacksonville.com/news/crime/2016-04-23/story/police-lieutenant-suspended-10-days-sheriffs-office-social-media-posts?utm_source=eyepiece&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=cxense&cx_navSource=eyepiece#cxrecs_s