HR Roundtable

This three-part HR Roundtable series walks NIRMA-members through the new medical marijuana laws that NIRMA membership needs to navigate, including medical accommodations, navigating requests without sacrificing safety, and how does this all affect our drug testing policies.

During these short, 30-minute sessions, these Roundtables use realistic scenarios and focus on what supervisors, department heads, and elected officials should do in the moment, when to involve HR or legal counsel, and how to avoid turning everyday issues into legal claims.

Part Three—Drug Testing, Impairment, and Defensible Decision Making: In today’s workplace, proving marijuana use is often easier than proving impairment. This session focuses on the most challenging operational issues facing HR: drug testing, reasonable suspicion, workplace investigations, supervisor documentation, and policy enforcement.

Hesitant of talking on Zoom?  Send your questions in advance to aconnell@woodsaitken.com with the subject line: “NIRMA Roundtable.”

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Emerging Legal Trends for Nebraska Law Enforcement Officers

Officers lose cases over the same mistakes every year. Violating curtilage. Writing a report that says what you did but not why. This hour covers where the law is moving, the mistakes that keep coming up, and three rules for handling close calls.

• Where the Law Is Moving: Recent decisions that change how you work a stop, approach a house, or use technology.
• Curtilage and the Approach: Where you can walk, where you can look, and when a knock and talk becomes a search.
• Reports That Hold Up: Courts don’t suppress what you did. They suppress what you failed to explain.
• Three Rules for Close Calls: How to handle a gray area so the decision that comes out of it helps other officers instead of hurting them.

 
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Four 4th Amendment Questions Every Nebraska Law Enforcement Officer Must Know

A judge doesn’t read your report looking for good intentions. He runs your actions through four questions, in order, and failing any one of them costs you the evidence. This hour shows you those four questions so you can ask them yourself, while there’s still time to fix the answer.

1. Does the Fourth Amendment apply? The Fourth Amendment applies to government actors, not private citizens.
2. Protected area? The Fourth Amendment only applies to four things. Do you know them?
3. Search or seizure? Did you intrude into a protected space, or take control of a person or item?
4. What’s your justification? C.R.E.W. Consent from someone with authority, a Recognized Exception, or a Warrant.

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