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The Fraternal Order of Police, Crescent City Lodge 2, sponsored 29 NOPD Recruits to run in the event, providing each recruit with a “Team FOP” T-shirt. The NOPD Recruits pictured are: Justin Almedia, Matthew Bencik, Shane Bonebrake, Justin Brown, Calvin Day, Robert Fuller, Cole Gordon, Elliot Gray, Michael Guasco, Patrick Guidry, Alton Guillot, Adle Haddad, Robert Hamilton, Daniel Hauck, Brittney Jackson, Terel Jones, Khristopher Kirkland, Sean Lebouef, Alfred Moran, Daniel Oquendo-Johnson, Charles Overstreet, Michael Poluiskis, Nicholas Raziano, Matthew Riffle, Ryne Schuler, Jeremy Simoneaux, Michael Swantek, Kandace Vallory, Randy Walton. 
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FOP News & Information (5.07.12) |
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MEETING REMINDER Our May 2012 meeting will be held on Thursday, May 10, 2012 at Our Lady of the Rosary School Cafeteria, located at 1342 Moss St. Entrance and parking is available off Esplanade. Chef John Schluter will be serving catfish etouffee. Dinner will be served at 6:30pm and the meeting will begin at 7:00pm. Many issues of importance will be addressed. All members are urged to attend.
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FOP News & Information (4.10.12) |
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FOP NEWSLETTER - APRIL 2012
Your April 2012 FOP Newsletter is attached as a .PDF document. You will need Adobe Acrobat software to open this attachment. If you do not already have this software installed in your computer, a free download is available from www.adobe.com.
Past editions of our monthly newsletters and our monthly meeting minutes are available for viewing at www.fopno.net.
Please follow us on facebook by joining the FOP Crescent City Lodge group; and on twitter @fopno.
MEETING AGENDA
The April 2012 FOP Crescent City Lodge membership meeting will be held on Thursday, April 12, 2012 at Our Lady of the Rosary School Cafeteria, located at 1342 Moss St. Entrance and parking is available off of Esplanade Avenue. Chef John Schluter will be preparing a chicken and andouille sausage pasta. Dinner will be served at 6:30pm.
This will be an information-packed meeting for both our active and retired members. We urge all that have an interest in any of the below listed agenda items to attend our meeting and voice your opinions. AGENDA:
6:30PM - 07:15PM Humana Insurance will be on hand for a presentation on the Humana Group Medicare Advantage Program.
This presentation, followed by a question and answer session, will be of special interest to our members who are Medicare eligible, who are nearing Medicare age, or who have parents or family members in one of those categories. We would urge all of our members and friends interested in this topic to attend this presentation. This is a Group Medicare Advantage Program - it is NOT Humana Gold.
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
Insurance Committee: Committee Chairman Dave Lentz will provide information on the FOP Family Protection Plan (see attached)
Education Committee: Committee Chairman Henry Dean will give an update on the FOP proposal for PO II, III, IV promotions
Legislative Committee: Committee Chairman Jim Gallagher will report on legislative activity, including HB 685 addressing the Police Officers' Bill of Rights, and HB 1012 addressing Public Record release of confidential information.
Legal Committee: Lodge attorney Claude Schlesinger will be seeking permission to file a lawsuit against the City of New Orleans to protect members rights as regards Overtime Calculations based on Educational Incentive payments (see 04/04/2012 email).
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HB 685 - The games people play... |
HB 685 - AN ATTACK ON THE POLICE OFFICERS' BILL OF RIGHTS
The FOP has received information indicating Louisiana House of Representative members are being told House Bill 685 by Rep. Moreno, which would extend the time allowed for the New Orleans Police Department to conduct internal administrative investigations, is made necessary because of a "justice department directive". This is simply untrue.
The facts are:
Article 10 of the United States Constitution prohibits the Department of Justice, or any other branch of the federal government, from "directing" any state legislature to pass or amend any law.
The City of New Orleans and the New Orleans Police Department are currently engaged in a voluntary negotiation with the U.S. Department of Justice that may result in an agreement on certain standards and practices to be followed by the New Orleans Police Department.
The negotiations are ongoing and no final agreement has been reached.
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Legislative Alert (HB 685) |
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LEGISLATIVE ALERT - ATTACK ON POLICE OFFICERS' BILL OF RIGHTS
Once again, the New Orleans Police Department is launching an attack on the Louisiana Police Officers' Bill of Rights.
House Bill 685, authored by Rep. Helena Moreno, (D) New Orleans, is attempting to amend LA R.S. 40:2531, commonly referred to as the Police Officers' Bill of Rights, to allowed more time for investigators with the New Orleans Police Department to conduct internal, administrative investigations.
Current law allows for 60 days to complete such an investigation, with the potential for a single 60 day extension upon showing of good cause, and applies to all municipal police agencies, campus police officers, probation and parole officers, and the Louisiana State Police. Rep. Moreno's bill changes the 60 days to 120 days plus a 60 day extension, for a total of 180 days (6 full months)
for the New Orleans Police Department only.
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FOP Blood Drive for George Bourgeois |
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BLOOD DRIVE FOR GEORGE BOURGEOIS George Bourgeois, a long-time FOP member, has been diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia and needs our help. Brother Bourgeois, who received his law degree while working at NOPD, retired as a Police Captain, and has been working as an Assistant District Attorney on Leon Cannizzaro's staff. In a recent email George informs us that he has received 20 units of blood and platelets, and there will be more transfusions in his future. Overall, George says he is feeling good and his treatments are going better than expected. A blood replacement drive has been arranged for Thursday, March 22, 2012, from 9AM-3PM, at One Shell Square (see attached flyer). We urge all of our members to get over there and assist our brother in his time of need. The New Orleans Blood Center will also accept donations at any local Blood Center. Call (504) 887-2833 to make an appointment. Make sure you let them know the donation is for "George Bourgeois of Metairie". Most importantly, lets all of us keep George and his family in our thoughts and in our prayers.
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