David H. Haynes v. City of Circleville, Ohio

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• holding that police officer's memorandum criticizing changes to canine program was written pursuant to official duties as canine handler
• holding that officer’s memo addressed solely to his superior and expressing discontent about financial cutbacks and changes to a program he directed was not protected speech
• holding that police officer’s memorandum criticizing changes to canine program was written pursuant to official duties as canine handler
• holding that a police officer’s protests to his Chief against training cutbacks were made pursuant to official duties
• ruling that a handler for the police department’s canine unit spoke pursuant to his official duties when he submitted an internal memo solely to his supervisor, criticizing cutbacks in canine training
• concluding that dog trainer’s memo to supervisor complaining about dog training cutbacks was made pursuant to the trainer’s official duties even though raising such complaints was not within the trainer’s express day-to-day duties

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