Gerardo D. Gonzalez v. City of Chicago, an Illinois Municipal Corporation, Sergeant Hanson, Individually, and Lieutenant Sullivan, Individually

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• noting that Gonzalez would have stated a claim had his employers asked him to rewrite his reports so as not to expose police corruption and he nevertheless undertook efforts to accurately communicate his findings
• noting that Gonzalez would have stated a claim had his employers asked him to rewrite his reports so as not to expose police corruption and he nevertheless undertook efforts to accurately communicate his findings
• explaining that an officer maintains a First Amendment right to expose police cover-ups should his supervisors force him to rewrite reports so as not to disclose police misconduct, but he does not enjoy First Amendment rights in investigative reports written as part of his job
• \Speech which is made in all respects as part of the employee's job duties is generally not the protected expression of the public employee.\
• “Speech which is made in all respects as part of the employee’s job duties is generally not the protected expression of the public employee.”
• “Speech which is made in all respects as part of the employee’s job duties is generally not protected expression of the public employee.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).