2014 WPLF Summer Conference Presentations/Presenters are Subject to Change Without Notice. “Legal Aspects of Police Officer Entry Level Hiring Process" 2014 WPLF SUMMER TRAINING CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS This presentation is being provided by James Korom & Kyle Guyla of the law firm von Briesen & Roper S.C. James Korom has been involved in advising public and private sector clients on all aspects of labor and employment law; he has acted as chief spokesperson in negotiations; he has advised clients in matters of employee evaluation, discipline, and discharge, including examining discrimination, constitutional, civil service, and contractual issues; he has handled many grievance arbitration cases, unfair labor practices cases and discrimination cases for the firm’s clients. Jim clerked with the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission before joining the firm in 1982, and has practiced extensively before the WERC. His practice also includes dealing with city and county civil service laws in hiring, promotion, and disciplinary matters. Jim is especially proud of his career‐long association with both the Wisconsin Chiefs of Police and Fire Chiefs Associations, as well as his term as President of the Wisconsin School Attorneys Association. Jim is a member of the Milwaukee and American Bar Associations, the State Bar of Wisconsin, and the Industrial Relations Research Association. Kyle Gulya is a Shareholder in the Labor and Employment Law Section. Kyle advises both public and private sector employers with employment‐and labor‐related issues including regulatory compliance, antidiscrimination practices, contractual and workplace policy matters, and personnel management. He handles numerous aspects of labor‐ management relations from advising clients during union organizing campaigns to serving as chief negotiator during collective bargaining negotiations. He also advises clients regarding complex internal investigations and effectively resolving personnel disputes. Kyle frequently advises clients regarding employment agreements, independent contractor agreements, covenants not to compete, and confidentiality agreements. Kyle also assists clients with crisis communications and effectively handling crisis situations, and he regularly advises clients regarding Wisconsin’s Public Records Law and Open Meetings Law. Kyle has extensive experience involving the unique employment‐and labor‐related issues faced by Police Departments, Fire Departments, Sheriff’s Departments and Police & Fire Commissions. Kyle works closely with law enforcement professionals regarding management‐side labor‐and employment‐related issues. Kyle is very proud of his relationships with the Wisconsin Chiefs of Police Association, the Wisconsin Fire Chiefs Education Association, and the Wisconsin Police Leadership Foundation. James Korom Kyle Guyla
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2014 WPLF Summer Conference Presentations/Presenters are Subject to Change Without Notice.
“Legal Aspects of Police Officer Entry Level Hiring Process"
2014 WPLF SUMMER TRAINING CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
This presentation is being provided by James Korom & Kyle Guyla of the law firm von Briesen & Roper S.C.
James Korom has been involved in advising public and private sector clients on all aspects of labor and employment law; he has acted as chief spokesperson in negotiations; he has advised clients in matters of employee evaluation, discipline, and discharge, including examining discrimination, constitutional, civil service, and contractual issues; he has handled many grievance arbitration cases, unfair labor practices cases and discrimination cases for the firm’s clients.
Jim clerked with the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission before joining the firm in 1982, and has practiced extensively before the WERC. His practice also includes dealing with city and county civil service laws in hiring, promotion, and disciplinary matters. Jim is especially proud of his career‐long association with both the Wisconsin Chiefs of Police and Fire Chiefs Associations, as well as his term as President of the Wisconsin School Attorneys Association.
Jim is a member of the Milwaukee and American Bar Associations, the State Bar of Wisconsin, and the Industrial Relations Research Association.
Kyle Gulya is a Shareholder in the Labor and Employment Law Section. Kyle advises both public and private sector employers with employment‐and labor‐related issues including regulatory compliance, antidiscrimination practices, contractual and workplace policy matters, and personnel management. He handles numerous aspects of labor‐management relations from advising clients during union organizing campaigns to serving as chief negotiator during collective bargaining negotiations. He also advises clients regarding complex internal investigations and effectively resolving personnel disputes. Kyle frequently advises clients regarding employment agreements, independent contractor agreements, covenants not to compete, and confidentiality agreements. Kyle also assists clients with crisis communications and effectively handling crisis situations, and he regularly advises clients regarding Wisconsin’s Public Records Law and Open Meetings Law.
Kyle has extensive experience involving the unique employment‐and labor‐related issues faced by Police Departments, Fire Departments, Sheriff’s Departments and Police & Fire Commissions. Kyle works closely with law enforcement professionals regarding management‐side labor‐and employment‐related issues. Kyle is very proud of his relationships with the Wisconsin Chiefs of Police Association, the Wisconsin Fire Chiefs Education Association, and the Wisconsin Police Leadership Foundation.
James Korom Kyle Guyla
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“Federal Civil Rights ‐ How to Manage the Process"
This presentation is being provided by Asst. U.S. Attorney Mel Johnson & U.S. Attorney James Santelle is meant to familiarize the chiefs with the law applicable to federal civil rights charges based on alleged misconduct by police officers. We will discuss applicable statutes, their elements and the kinds of actions by officers that can result in civil rights allegations. The presentation will also cover practical points regarding how these allegations are evaluated, the duty of other officers to intervene, dangers of false reporting in these cases and possible additional civil consequences.
Mr. Mel Johnson is a graduate of St. Olaf College and the Washington University School of Law. After five years as an Assistant State Public Defender in Milwaukee,
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Mr. Johnson joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 1980 and has remained there since. His practice has been varied including some civil litigation but mainly criminal litigation, trial and appellate, in a wide variety of types of prosecutions. He has prosecuted a number of civil rights charges against law enforcement officers and evaluates civil rights complaints for his office.
U.S. Attorney James L. Santelle began his service as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin on January of 2010 after his appointment by President Barack Obama. Mr. Santelle is one of 92 United States Attorneys nationwide and the chief federal law enforcement officer for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. In December of 2011 Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. appointed Mr. Santelle to a two‐year term on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee, a 16‐member group of United States Attorneys that provides counsel and perspective to the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General on a variety of important criminal and civil litigation‐related issues and, in further support of the law enforcement mission of the United States Department of Justice, renders decisions on various policy, program, management, budget, and general operational matters.
Mr. Santelle also serves on the Management & Budget, Native American Issues, Environmental Issues, and Civil Rights Issues Subcommittees of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee. He chairs the Security Issues Working Group of the Management & Budget Subcommittee, which addresses a variety of matters related to the personal, physical, informational, and emergency‐related safety and security of the United States Attorney community nationwide. Mr. Santelle has been employed by the United States Department of Justice since July of 1985. For much of that time, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, in which capacity he litigated both criminally and civilly a variety of financial, program‐related, civil rights, property‐based, environmental, violence‐related, tort‐based, employment, and other federal cases involving the interests of the United States of America and its many agencies.
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This presentation being provided by Dennis Butler police chief of the Ottawa Police Dept. (KS), a municipal police department staffed with 28 sworn police officers serving a population of 12,850 in east central Kansas. He is a progressive police officer with 35 years of law enforcement experience. Prior to accepting his current position, he served for 25 years with the Alexandria Police Department, Alexandria, Virginia, retiring in 2004 at the rank of captain. The Alexandria Police Department employs 320 police officers serving a population of 140,000 residents. In Virginia, Chief Butler was a state-certified instructor, served in a variety of operational assignments, four years on staff at Northern Virginia Criminal Justice Academy, three years as the assistant public information officer for the Alexandria Police Department, and has extensive experience in mobile computer systems development and domestic violence service programs.
“Creating & Using Police Foundations"
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Chief Dennis ButlerOttawa Police Dept. (KS) During his tenure as police chief, the police department has received $1.5
million in grant funding for police equipment, programs and services. The majority of the funding was awarded to develop comprehensive programs targeting domestic violence. In April 2007, Chief Butler was selected by the Kansas Attorney General’s Office to receive the Fifth Annual Crime Victims’ Service Award in recognition of Outstanding Service in Law Enforcement. In June 2008, his Department received the Kansas D.A.R.E. Officers President’s Award in recognition of their D.A.R.E. summer camp. In May 2009, Chief Butler founded the Ottawa Police Foundation. Chief Butler serves on the Governor’s Law Enforcement Sub-committee for Domestic Violence Training tasked with creating and revising standardized training curricula for local law enforcement and to develop model policies pertaining to the investigation of domestic violence. Using DOJ grant funding, his agency collaborated with the Elizabeth Layton Center to create the first BIP in Franklin County. During 2011, Chief Butler collaborated with the Willow Domestic Violence Center to start the Franklin County Domestic Violence Response Team, a coordinated community response to DV. Chief Butler is an International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP ) mentor for new police chiefs, and a board member of the of the IACP Police Foundation Section. In connection with the Foundation Section he creates and presents workshops at the Annual IACP Conference regarding the benefits of collaborating with a police foundation.
Chief Butler earned a B.S. in Administration of Justice in 2002 from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia and in 2004 a Graduate Certificate in Administration of Justice from the MPA program at George Mason University. He is a 2001 graduate of the University of Richmond’s Jepson School of Leadership Certificate program for Professional Executive Leadership. In May 2011, the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society selected Dennis as the George Mason University Alumnus of the Year. He is a graduate of the F.B.I.’s National Academy, 223rd Session and the Professional Executive Leadership School. Currently, Chief Butler is a member in good standing of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the Kansas Association of Chiefs of Police, and the Kansas Peace Officers' Association, FBI National Academy Associates, Fight Crime; Invest in Kids, and serves on the board of the IACP Police Foundation Section.
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Michèle StuartJAG Investigations
This high‐energy and eye‐opening presentation was provided at the IACP and covers topics on how to use primarily free online sources to compliment paid sites to conduct investigations relating to a subject's background, location as well as assets. This presentation will demonstrate how easy it is to track people (including yourself) by using popular online social media sites such as Twitter and Facebookas well as measures to protect yourself as both an officer and individual
The presentation is being provided by Michèle Stuart of JAG Investigations (Gilbert, AZ). Michèle is a licensed Private Investigator in the State of Arizona with twenty years of experience specializing in the areas of Financial, Open Source Investigations (OSINT), Corporate Investigations and Intelligence/Counter Intelligence.
Ms. Stuart is an Adjunct Professor with University of Virginia and an Instructor at Quantico for multi country training programs. Over the years she has provided presentations and private training, to both Federal and State levels of Law Enforcement Agencies and Military Intelligence throughout the U.S. including attendees of Department of Homeland Security, US Marshals, FBI, DOJ, Border Patrol, Indian Tribal Nations and local law enforcement agencies throughout the country.
Ms. Stuart has received the following prestigious awards: Top 25 Most Influential Collection Professionals (2011) and 2012 Speaker Of The Year ‐National Association Of Investigative Specialists
“Legal Updates"
On Wednesday the 2014 WPLF Summer Training Conference concludes with two sets of Legal Update presentations. The Legal Update presentation will be provided by Asst. Attorney General Dave Perlman and the second will be provided by Attorney's James Korom and Kyle Guyla of von Briesen & Roper S.C.
