Christina Currie and Greg Lauer sued Lauderhill police officers Frankly Hartly and Thomas Merenda for the kidnapping and rape of two woman. After a bench trial the federal judge ordered that both officers pay $6,200,000.00 to woman they victimized. Read more
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Currie conducted public records requests looking into an officer’s record after she watched a video of the officer pushing a protester. Currie identified multiple police body camera videos demonstrating uses of force which were not reviewed by the department despite findings that the uses of force were within policy.
“The police department found them when they were processing my public records request,” she said referring to the body camera videos.
Currie, who chairs the Fort Lauderdale citizens panel that examines police internal affairs findings, was not acting in that capacity when she found that when Fort Lauderdale officers self-report they had to use force because of resistance, internal affairs investigators look at the paperwork but not the body camera video of the incident.
“I think that it is very upsetting that the police department had the body camera footage and they made a decision on the use of force in those cases without ever looking at the footage. It shouldn’t have taken a public records request months later to know there was something questionable about the footage,” Currie said.
Currie brought the matter to the attention of department leadership, investigations were open at the Departmental and Florida Department of Law Enforcement and changes to the body camera policy resulted.
said he was unaware of Herring’s death until he was contacted by the Sun-Sentinel earlier this year. “It’s unconscionable, absolutely indefensible,” Lauer said Thursday of Herring’s death. Read more
said Fields’ attorney, Greg Lauer of Fort Lauderdale. “The most important thing is profits. If someone gets injured, it’s just collateral damage to them.” Read more
Poor medical care and at least 15 needless deaths at the Broward County Jail since 2010 appear to have caught up with controversial Miami-based Armor Correctional Health Services, which has lost its bid for another multi-million, multi-year contract to provide medical services to county inmates. But Sheriff Scott Israel’s decision this month to bypass low-bidder Armor and deem similarly priced Correct Care Solutions LLC to be the successful bidder may also prove problematic. Correct Care has its own troubling history.