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Fire Bloggers and the 1st Amendment

Today’s burning question comes from a firefighter blogger who is in college studying fire science, and will be looking for a full-time job in the near future: Burning question: Could blogging become an issue during the hiring process? Could I ...

NY Firefighter Charged with Downloading Child Porn to FD Computer

A firefighter in Fort Johnson, New York in has been charged with downloading child pornography onto a fire department computer. Randolph Billington, 31, of the Fort Johnson Volunteer Fire Company, has been arrested and charged with possession of an obscene ...

Firefighter’s First Amendment Rights Extends to Emails… Even Ones With False Statements

On Thursday, the Indiana Supreme Court handed down a decision in the email discipline case of firefighter Bradley Love of the Sugar Creek Township Fire Department. Love was a volunteer/part-time firefighter in the combination fire department. The case arose back ...

Fire Service Court

Last month at FDIC, the Fire Service Court got togther to record a video session to discuss the hottest legal topics facing the fire service. Take a look.

Family Sues Facebook over Photo Posted by EMT

Remember New York city EMT Mark Musarella, who posted a scene photo of a murder victim on Facebook in May of 2009? The Richmond University Medical Center fired Musarella the day after he posted the photo, his EMT certification was ...

Facebook Rants Cost Bourne Firefighter His Job

A firefighter in Bourne, Massachusetts has been terminated based on comments he made on Facebook last summer. Firefighter Richard Doherty was terminated last Wednesday, February 23, 2011.

Fire Service Court: Social Media Policy

Here is the latest Fire Service Court Radio broadcast addressing the impact of the recent NLRB case on social media issues in the fire service. Fire Service Court: Social Media Policy.

Social Media Case of Cyber Bullying and Harassment: Frenchtown, Montana

Over the past year, we have seen a number of social media related cases end the career of firefighters. However, this case out of Frenchtown Rural Fire Department in Montana is different from the others we have seen. In Frenchtown, ...

The NLRBs Non-Ruling in the Facebook AMR Case

The decision that labor lawyers, social media gurus, Constitutional scholars and fire lawyers have been patiently waiting for has finally been issued… sort of. The controversial case of Dawnmarie Souza, a Connecticut EMT who was fired by AMR in part ...

Another Digital Imagery Challenge: Privacy Issues and Geo Coding

Firefighters and fire departments are struggling to deal with realities that new technologies have brought us. Digital imagery, spy cams, social media, electronic surviellance in the workplace. We have seen the headlines about firefighters being disciplined and in some cases ...

Who Owns The Photo: the Firefighter or the Fire Department

I received an interesting question concerning the ownership of photos taken by on-duty firefighters and thought the subject was worth discussing here in Fire Law Blog. The question: who legally owns a photo taken by an on-duty firefighter, the firefighter ...

NLRB Has a Tiger By The Tail: Social Media and Employee Rights

There's an important case that is being heard by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that has some major implications for work-related social media policies. In fact it has the potential to rewrite the boundaries that many organizations have written with ...

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Firefighter’s Video of Police Shooting Pitbull Creates Backlash – Against Firefighters

We live in a complicated time, where things that happen locally can instantly become sensationalized on a national or even international level. This reality is a function of digital imagery, the Internet and the power of social networking. Firefighters sometimes ...

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