Closed Meeting Violated FOIA 
By Deborah Elkins
Published: January 17, 2011
Tags: Judge Jay T. Swett, Municipal, Virginia Circuit Courts, Westmoreland County Circuit Court
Local officials violate Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act when they went into a closed meeting for discussion of a proposed contract with a counterterrorism training company that wants to build a training facility and academy in the county, a Westmoreland County Circuit Court says. After the meeting, a request was made of Robert Fink, county [...]
Tort -Emotional Distress – Police Investigation
By Deborah Elkins
Published: December 21, 2009
Tags: Hanover County Circuit Court, Judge Jay T. Swett, Tort
A former Henrico County police investigator, terminated after conflicts with the Henrico Commonwealth’s Attorney and Henrico police officials over the investigator’s role in a criminal investigation allegedly involving several high-level Richmond government officials, can sue the commonwealth’s attorney and defendant police captain for intentional infliction of emotional distress, says a Hanover County Circuit Court. In [...]
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