Brenda Mills v. City of Evansville, Indiana

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• holding that a police officer’s dissenting comments concerning a departmental policy constituted speech pursuant to her official duties
• finding that after plaintiff criticized departmental policy, she was laterally transferred, not demoted, when she was removed from supervisory duties, reassigned to patrol duties and lost use of department ear but received a $1,200 pay increase because of shift change
• precluding claim under Garcetti where police officer advised senior managers that her immediate superior had made a bad decision, despite the fact that the officer had no duty to make such a report
• on duty, in uniform sergeant with supervisory authority “spoke in her capacity as a public employee contributing to the formation and execution of official policy”
• police sergeant critical of her boss's personnel decision spoke as employee, not citizen
• employee speech unprotected because it contributed to formation and execution of an official policy

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