It certainly seems illegal, not to mention childish:
- Time:16Jul11
Where: 023rd Dist 3rd Watch
When : 1400 hrs, 1530 hrs, 1700 hrs
Capt TJL walks into roll call and breaks into a crazy rant about recent Medical Roll Abuses, 2 officers hit the Medical prior to start of tour 2day, ( alleged)... This Capt. of Police goes into a rant and reads EVERY OFFICER ON 3RD WATCH, WHO IS ON THE MEDICAL/IOD, READS Their names , and Their ailement , and then goes on to give his own medical opinion of whether they are really Ill/Injured or just malingering.... UNF***ING BELIEVABLE. Then this Capt. says that he will put all officers who use the Medical on a Rapid Car, since they obivously need rest before starting work......... This guy calls out Officers by name and says specifically that if they were " to be working on a loading dock with a bad back, they would show up to work on the loading dock to work with their bad back",,, This Capt. TJL then says thAt OUR MEDICAL ROLL POLICY IS DONE, OVER, ITS ANTIQUATED, AND DETRIMENTAL TO POLICE FUNCTIONS IN ITS CURRWENT FORM AND THAT MAYOR EMANUEL WILL SEE TO IT THAT IT'S ABOLISHED"..........He was loud, ranting, obnoxious, and read EVERY OFFICER'S NAME ON THE MEDICAL IN FRONT OF OFFICERS AT ROLL CALL AND SAID BASICALLY THAT ALMOST EVERYONE WAS MILKING THE SYSTEM EXCEPT FOR SOME HE SAID HE WISHED WOULD GET BETTER...... Hey SCC, FOP, is this a grievance???? I know you could get 20 plus To/Froms supporting this post.... Just asking?
Someone has to start the ball rolling by stepping up and filing the proper grievance, most likely one of the parties named during the roll call. They'll also have to have a few of the attendees step up and put pen to paper since they didn't actually witness the violation of HIPAA.
Even if it isn't a HIPAA violation, it is definitely a misuse of a Department database. What possible use could there be for a Department supervisor to use specific individual medical records at a Roll Call? This doesn't appear to be for training purposes, but rather to humiliate and denigrate, both of which are violations of the Rules and Regulations.
If they can threaten to discipline coppers for simply looking up a case report, they ought to be able to fire a captain who violates individual employees' rights to privacy.
UPDATE: To the individual attempting to post one or more of the officers' circumstances for being on the Medical Roll, nice try.
To the other asshat or two claiming the blog defends the dogs, you've lost sight of the big picture again. There should be a process in place to address Medical Roll abuse. The fact that the Department lacks the balls to do anything about it due to certain "considerations" isn't the issue. The issue is the blatant violation committed by the captain.
Even if it isn't a HIPAA violation, it is definitely a misuse of a Department database. What possible use could there be for a Department supervisor to use specific individual medical records at a Roll Call? This doesn't appear to be for training purposes, but rather to humiliate and denigrate, both of which are violations of the Rules and Regulations.
If they can threaten to discipline coppers for simply looking up a case report, they ought to be able to fire a captain who violates individual employees' rights to privacy.
UPDATE: To the individual attempting to post one or more of the officers' circumstances for being on the Medical Roll, nice try.
To the other asshat or two claiming the blog defends the dogs, you've lost sight of the big picture again. There should be a process in place to address Medical Roll abuse. The fact that the Department lacks the balls to do anything about it due to certain "considerations" isn't the issue. The issue is the blatant violation committed by the captain.