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A prosecutor in Louisville, Ky., has been suspended from his job without pay for 30 days, allegedly because he yelled at a public defender and “compelled” her to leave a room.Robert Fleck, a DUI division chief with the Jefferson County Attorney’s office, was suspended until March 13 and ordered to submit to a psychological assessment for “anger/stress related conditions,” report WDRB, WLKY and the Louisville Courier-Journal. A suspension agreement cites the public defender incident, as well as a threat to hold the clerk’s office in contempt of court for slow production of records.The media obtained records in the case under the Kentucky Open Records Act. The suspension agreement says Fleck will be fired if there is another incident.The Courier-Journal was unable to reach Fleck for comment because he has an unlisted number. Julie Lott Hardesty, first assistant in the Jefferson County Attorney’s office, told the publications that Fleck is a … [Read more...] about Prosecutor is suspended from his job, allegedly for yelling at PD and forcing her from room

Six Roman Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania joined the list this week of those around the U.S. that have been forced to face the ugly truth about child-molesting priests in their ranks. But in dozens of other dioceses, there has been no reckoning, leading victims to wonder if the church will ever truly take responsibility or be held accountable. 100s of 'Predator Priests' Lured Young Victims: Grand Jury "It happens everywhere, so it's not really so much a question of where has it happened, but instead, where has word gotten out, where is information about it accessible?" said Terry McKiernan, founder of BishopAccountability.org, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit group that tracks clergy sexual abuse cases. Since the crisis exploded in Boston in 2002, dioceses around the country have dealt with similar revelations of widespread sexual abuse, with many of them forced to come clean by aggressive plaintiffs' attorneys, assertive prosecutors or relentless journalists. Will Pa. … [Read more...] about Church Sex Scandal: Abuse Victims Want a Full Reckoning

A Key EmployeeChicago lawyer Jeff Nowak used Stephen Colbert’s recent absence from taping his Comedy Central program, The Colbert Report, to explain “a little-used, often forgotten rule under the Family and Medical Leave Act” at his blog, FMLA Insights. It has been widely reported that Colbert canceled those two tapings because his 91-year-old mother was ailing.“Let’s suppose for an instant that we lived in the bizarro world, and Comedy Central wanted to get rid of Colbert as quickly as NBC chucked Conan O’Brien from the Tonight Show,” Nowak wrote. Could the network do so under FMLA over Colbert’s family-related absence? Nowak says that it technically could under the act’s “key employee” exception if Colbert met two conditions: 1) If Colbert were among the highest-paid 10 percent of Comedy Central’s employees; and 2) if “having to reinstate Colbert would cause substantial and grievous economic injury to … [Read more...] about Around the Blawgosphere: A Stephen Colbert Hypo; Bloggers Pay Last Respects to One of Their Own

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POLITICS 04/07/2018 10:56 pm ET Walkouts nearly 30 years ago spurred investment and optimism in education, but anti-tax ideology eventually won out. Now kids are paying the price. By Dave Jamieson and Travis Waldron OKLAHOMA CITY and FRANKFORT, Ky. ― Kenny Bridges spent five years as a school superintendent in Kansas, a state famous for the anti-tax, austerity agenda of its former Republican governor, Sam Brownback. Tax cuts had left the schools in such dire shape that Bridges ― the son of two teachers, husband to another and father to two more ― had trouble attracting talent. He found there was just one state from which he could reliably recruit educators, thanks to its rock-bottom teacher pay: his native Oklahoma. Bridges returned to Oklahoma last year to become superintendent of Jay Public Schools in Delaware County. More than 40 percent of residents there are Native American, and nearly 4 out of 5 students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. … [Read more...] about The Red-State Teacher Revolt Has Been Brewing For Decades