yep agreed re: criminal issues...was referring to lawsuits (civil) only. as
for the civil penalties, does anyone know of an example in which a govt.
employee was successfully sued for an official act (and the employee lost
the lawsuit?) or do courts routinely dismiss lawsuits? i'm sure there are
many lawsuits filed against govt. employees, but don't know what happens to
them.
phillip
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At 02:03 AM 4/23/01 -0400, Phillip H. Zakas wrote:
>I concur with your general direction. two thoughts came to mind:
>
>first, govt. employees aren't subject to lawsuits because of their official
>acts.
Government employees are still responsible to know what they are allowed and
not allowed to do..
If they do something outside of their written guidelines and it violates
your civil rights or is a criminal act then they can be sued or arrested
depending on what they did. If they followed departmental guidelines and
those guidelines also violate your civil rights or is a criminal act then
the organization is also at fault.. One thing to point out too... If a
person knows that departmental policy does violate civil rights or is
criminal in action then they can still be held liable.. But you have to
prove that they knew it...
Jon Beets
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