Brian Hagen v. City of Eugene

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a K9 officer’s reporting of work-related safety issues to his supervisors did not constitute speech as a private citizen
• holding that police officer who vocalized safety concerns about accidental discharges of firearms spoke pursuant to his job duties as a public employee
• concluding plaintiff spoke as a public employee where he raised “concerns about SWAT safety,” which was “inextricably intertwined with his duties as a K-9 officer” despite no “formal written duty to do so”
• finding the plaintiff spoke as a public 2 employee where his concerns were directed to his coworkers and superiors, related 3 to employee safety, and the speech occurred within the plaintiff’s chain of 4 command

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).