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Former Police Officer Sues City, Claims City Ignored Employee Concerns Regarding the Chief

 A former Boise Police (BPD) officer has filed a lawsuit against the City of Boise requesting a judgement and monetary relief for lost wages, lost retirement, emotional distress and litigation fees — alleging the City of Boise violated the Protection of Public Employees Act by failing to protect its employees when they came to them with concerns against the former BPD chief, Ryan Lee.

The lawsuit, filed Nov. 8 in Ada County District Court by former Internal Affairs (IA) Captain Tom Fleming, alleges the former chief and the city interfered with ongoing investigations regarding employee misconduct as well as “implemented policies that unreasonably restricted employees’ ability to document and report the existence of waste of public funds, property, manpower or suspected violations of laws, rules or regulations.”

The lawsuit states the City of Boise was complicit in Lee’s alleged actions towards his employees, and that they were “on express notice of the substantial and outrageous emotional distress” that Lee’s alleged actions were causing — and failed to take any action by refraining to place the former chief on leave, after the Office of Police Accountability recommended it.

Read the source article at ktvb.com

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