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LEOs and confidentiality question
Is there any confidentiality guidelines in CO that prevent an LEO who has made contact with you but there were no violations, then going and discussing the subject of that contact with your employer
when it has nothing to do with the employer, but results in you losing your job?
Interesting question. It's pretty vague though. You want to provide details that might better assist in answering your question?
“Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.” Andrew Jackson
A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America ' for an amount of 'up to and including my life.'
That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.
ANYTHING YOU SAY, CAN AND WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU.
yes it pertains to being arrested. However Unless there is something like Dr./ Patient Confidentiality mum's the word
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As an LEO dealing with a specific subset of the population, I advised one of my clients that I would report their drug use to their employer because they are working for a home health provider, if it continued. It has continued. I gave him one week to report it to his employer, after that I would contact them. The only things I cannot disclose are any HIPA info I am privy to via releases of information.
AFAIK, Not unless it's medical related. In my experience, what is said to a public servant, then becomes public knowledge.Originally Posted by Melvin
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Okay no legal violation. No broken law. Moral violation in some peoples eyes. LEO said there isn't any problem. Then days later employer claims had contact from said LEO describing situation knowing full well employer has a whole holier than thou moral code. No drugs involved. Just teenage hormones.
Sodomy, bestiality, necrophilia are off the table right? I kid...
There are things that LE may have access to (CCIC/NCIC) information that are improper to relate to non-LE. Privacy Act covers a lot of personal related information and under what circumstances it can be provided and to whom it can be provided to.
How did the LEO contact you? If you were not under arrest and you were not driving, you had no obligation to provide any information. I can only assume that you provided information to make the situation go away. I assume the information you provided was not related to criminal activity.
Do you know for a fact it was the LEO who provided the information to your employer? Why do you think the LEO contacted your former employer? Can you prove the answer to either of these two questions?
Bottom line, if you are hiding something from an employer that you know the employer will fire you for as soon as they find out, then you will spend every moment on that job sitting on a time bomb, just waiting for the thing to go off. Be up front with your next employer and move on.
Be safe.
Still pretty vague. Let's guess. You have sex with the boss's teenaged daughter in the back of a vehicle and were contacted by LEO who later told dad about catching you and daughter in the vehicle. Close?
“Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.” Andrew Jackson
A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America ' for an amount of 'up to and including my life.'
That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.
I would think that only because it is very rare at least in my case to be asked where you work.
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