Let’s Go Brandon T-Shirt Prompts Investigation in San Francisco Fire Department

A San Francisco firefighter is facing a disciplinary investigation following a social media photo of him wearing a “Let’s Go Brandon” shirt while apparently engaged in fire department activities. The photo was posted on Twitter, and the poster tagged Mayor London Breed, a city supervisor, and the fire department, asking the question “is this the new official uniform for the SFFD?"

Topeka Prevails in Gender Discrimination Suit

The US District Court for the District of Kansas has granted summary judgment to the City of Topeka in a suit brought by a female firefighter alleging she was subjected to a hostile work environment and retaliation. Amy Bermudez, a 25-year veteran of the department, filed suit in 2018 alleging the harassment stretched back to 2014.

NYPD Learns Social Media Lesson The Hard Way

The social media age is upon us, and one of the exciting things about the new wild west of cyberspace is there are no rules. We all are learning as we go. We learn from the successes… and failures… of ...

Miami Dade Firefighter Faces Child Porn Charges

A Miami Dade firefighter who has been under investigation since last December has been charged with sharing child pornography via Twitter. Gabriel Diaz, 38, a seventeen year veteran assigned to Public Education Unit, was arrested Thursday and remains in custody ...

Toronto Fire Terminates Three For Reposting South Park Comments

Three Toronto firefighters have become the latest fire service cyber-casualties, terminated over tweets their fire chief said violated city policy. Matt Bowman, Lawaun Edwards, and a third firefighter whose identify has not been released were terminated today over posts that ...

More Bad Tweets for FDNY

For the second time in a week, the FDNY EMS is in the news over racist Tweets. EMS Lieutenant Timothy Dluhos, whose Twitter name is Bad Lieutenant, was confronted about his posts by NY Post reporters outside his Staten Island ...

FDNY EMT’s Tweets A Career Ender

The son of FDNY Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano has become the fire service‘s latest cyber-casualty courtesy of his propensity to tweet racist, sexist, and in general stupid comments. FDNY EMT Joseph Cassano, 23, resigned today following news reports that ...

Metro – Are these the tweets that led Nutter administration to ban firefighters from social media?.

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