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The lawsuit focuses on two groups of officers. One was identified by prosecutors working for then-District Attorney Seth Williams in March 2017. That list identified 66 current and former officers whose testimony might be problematic in criminal cases.
The second group is in a database that Krasner is developing. It includes some officers previously identified and adds others whose credibility has more recently been questioned by Krasner and the police administration. Names in that database have not been released. The FOP's suit characterizes Krasner's database as a "testimony limitation program."
The FOP's suit states that the creation of any list and disclosure of the names of suspect officers constitutes a "deprivation of the fundamental right to reputation protected by the Pennsylvania Constitution."
"Once placed on District Attorney Krasner's 'Do Not Call List,' a police officer loses opportunities to testify in criminal cases in which he or she served as an investigator, and sometimes is delegated to restrictive duty status," the suit says. "For such police officers, critical parts of the work performed by police officers are restricted, resulting in the lost wages, damage to reputation and professional harm to those police officers."
(In the first seven months of fiscal year 2018, the Inquirer has reported, city police officers earned $12 million in overtime related to testifying — or waiting to testify — in court.)
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