Prince George’s County is entitled to summary judgment on a police officer’s claim of retaliatory discharge in violation of the First Amendment because he complained about his supervisor, a federal district court in Maryland ruled. The court held that a letter he sent to a corporal in the police department’s internal affairs division complaining about his supervisor’s alleged misconduct addressed matters of public concern but wasn’t constitutionally protected because the speech was made in his capacity a public employee, not as a private citizen, and it was his official duty to report misconduct. The court also found that even if ...
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