Lewis v. District of Columbia Board of Parole

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• finding that plaintiff was speaking as a representative of the police department where his speech “was simply not the kind of activity engaged in by citizens who do not work for the police department”
• finding that plaintiffs speech was not protected under the First Amendment where. it “derived solely from his special knowledge obtained during the course of his investigation and therefore during the course of his employment”
• Police Chief was not acting as a private citizen when he reported information about a pa trolman to the City Council
• where plaintiff spoke as a police chief “in the context of his duties to investigate the background of existing or future members of the department and to make recommendations regarding their continued employment[,]” he has “not plausibly allege[d] that [he] spoke as a citizen”

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