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Fifth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Former Louisiana Deputy’s Whistleblower Suit

Loaded on Jan. 13, 2016

Filed under: Whistleblowing, Attorney Client. Location: Louisiana.

When attorney and former Chief Deputy Tregg Wilson of the Sheriff's Office of St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana discovered that interrogation rooms in the office's Criminal Investigation Division were under 24-hour, motion-sensor-activated video and audio surveillance and recording, he thought it might cause Sheriff Mike Tregre legal problems since ...

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