Saffren v. Newtown Township Supervisors

How courts have described this case

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• holding that police officer had no reasonable expectation of privacy, because “he was aware that his evaluations would be reported to his employer”
• finding that the pre-employment evaluation of even the officer who allegedly used the excessive force “would usually not be relevant” except that the officer’s expert put the matter directly at issue in that litigation
• limiting discovery of psychological records to documents “regarding [the officer] and his involvement in the shooting incident”
• ordering disclosure where the officer submitted to an evaluation before he was hired and understood that the results would be submitted to the department
• reports of post-shooting counseling sessions attended by police officer held non-privileged, since the officer “was aware that his evaluations would be reported to his employer”
• “[t]he psychotherapist-patient privilege cannot be invoked ... in the absence of intended confidential communications”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).