{"id":155627,"date":"2023-09-15T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-vallejo-city-council-approves-900k-settlement-in-vallejo-police-departments-badge-bending-whistleblower-case\/"},"modified":"2023-09-19T19:40:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T23:40:37","slug":"el-ayuntamiento-de-vallejo-aprueba-un-acuerdo-de-900000-dolares-en-el-caso-de-los-denunciantes-de-falsificacion-de-placas-del-departamento-de-policia-de-vallejo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/el-ayuntamiento-de-vallejo-aprueba-un-acuerdo-de-900000-dolares-en-el-caso-de-los-denunciantes-de-falsificacion-de-placas-del-departamento-de-policia-de-vallejo\/","title":{"rendered":"Vallejo City Council approves $900k settlement in Vallejo Police Department&#8217;s Badge Bending Whistleblower Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">OAKLAND, Calif.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Sept. 15, 2023<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/\u00a0&#8212; The <span class=\"xn-location\">Vallejo, CA<\/span> City Council met behind closed doors Tuesday night, <span class=\"xn-chron\">September 12, 2023<\/span>, and approved a <span class=\"xn-money\">$900,000<\/span> pretrial settlement in the case of Police Captain <span class=\"xn-person\">John Whitney<\/span> who had been terminated after blowing the whistle on the badge bending rituals of some <span class=\"xn-location\">Vallejo<\/span> Police Department Officers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpgd521left\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"width: 100%; text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpgd521left\" title=\"www.giccb.com Oakland, California (510) 832-5411\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/717655\/4275935\/The_Law_Firm_of_Gwilliam_Ivary_Chiosso_Cavalli_Brewer_Logo.jpg\" alt=\"www.giccb.com Oakland, California (510) 832-5411\" align=\"middle\"\/><\/div>\n<p>In 2019, <span class=\"xn-location\">Vallejo<\/span> Police Captain <span class=\"xn-person\">John Whitney<\/span> learned that an officer had bent his badge to commemorate the times he had fired his weapons at civilians. Given this wasn&#8217;t the first time Whitney had learned of such a practice, he told the Chief they needed a department wide investigation. He wanted officers to be held accountable if they were found to be glorifying police shootings. When the Chief refused, Captain Whitney reported badge bending to the mayor and the City Manager. Within weeks he was placed on administrative leave for leaking confidential information and was later fired from\u00a0Vallejo, allegedly for deleting data from his cell phone. In a letter of support, the mayor later said he believed Whitney was fired for &#8220;airing\u00a0Vallejo&#8217;s dirty laundry&#8221;. Whitney brought claims against the <span class=\"xn-location\">City of Vallejo, CA<\/span> for whistleblower retaliation. This week,\u00a0Vallejo agreed to settle his case for <span class=\"xn-money\">$900,000.00<\/span> just a month before the civil trial was about to begin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lead attorney, <span class=\"xn-person\">Jayme Walker<\/span>, a Partner with the law firm Gwilliam Ivary Chiosso Cavalli &amp; Brewer, who represented Mr. Whitney, stated, &#8220;<i><span class=\"xn-person\">John Whitney<\/span> crossed the thin blue line to hold police officers accountable for excessive force and the practice of badge bending which glorified police shootings. Instead of commending him as a hero, the <span class=\"xn-location\">City of Vallejo<\/span> terminated him. Now he has finally been vindicated and this settlement will hopefully send a positive message to all police officers who have the courage to stand up and do the right thing.&#8221;\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>When hearing of the settlement, Captain Whitney said, <i>&#8220;<\/i><i>The city of <span class=\"xn-location\">Vallejo<\/span> and some officers in the department tried to silence me by ruining my career. I took an oath to uphold ethics and public trust and I meant it. What the City did damaged me, my family, and the community. This settlement vindicates me, and I hope the city will now do what it takes to repair the damage Badge bending did to the community.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3969944-1&amp;h=2027497126&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F717655%2F4275935%2FThe_Law_Firm_of_Gwilliam_Ivary_Chiosso_Cavalli_Brewer_Logo.jpg&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F717655%2F4275935%2FThe_Law_Firm_of_Gwilliam_Ivary_Chiosso_Cavalli_Brewer_Logo.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/717655\/4275935\/The_Law_Firm_of_Gwilliam_Ivary_Chiosso_Cavalli_Brewer_Logo.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\" id=\"DivAssetPlaceHolder2\">\n<\/div>\n<p>SOURCE  The Law Firm of <span class=\"xn-person\">Gwilliam Ivary Chiosso Cavalli<\/span> &amp; Brewer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">OAKLAND, Calif.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Sept. 15, 2023<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/\u00a0&#8212; The <span class=\"xn-location\">Vallejo, CA<\/span> City Council met behind closed doors Tuesday night, <span class=\"xn-chron\">September 12, 2023<\/span>, and approved a <span class=\"xn-money\">$900,000<\/span> pretrial settlement in the case of Police Captain <span class=\"xn-person\">John Whitney<\/span> who had been terminated after blowing the whistle on the badge bending rituals of some <span class=\"xn-location\">Vallejo<\/span> Police&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interes-humano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155627"}],"version-history":[{"count":"1","href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155629,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155627\/revisions\/155629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}