Politics & Government
Register: Police Sue Napa
The police officers' association claims the city violated its charter by placing the personnel department under the authority of a city office.
The labor association representing Napa police officers is suing the over its newly-created human resources department, according to a report in the .
Reporter Chantal M. Lovell writes that the Napa Police Officers’ Association filed a complaint in Napa Superior Court Tuesday.
The lawsuit claims the city violated its charter by placing the personnel department under the authority of a city office, rather than the independent civil-service commission approved by voters in 1964, according to Lovell’s report.
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The article quotes Police Officers' Association president Paul Paniagua as saying “This (Civil Service) Commission was created by a vote of the people so it should only be changed by a vote of the people.”