The D.C. police union has filed a grievance against the Metropolitan Police Department, claiming that the agency violated the rights of officers by inquiring about off-the-job illnesses and sharing that information in a personnel database.
The department requires officers to report off-duty injuries and illnesses that have nothing to do with their ability to perform the job, which is a violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act, according to a grievance filed by Fraternal Order of Police Chairman Kristopher Baumann.
The department also broke federal law by putting that information into a database that is used by many supervisors who should not have access to that information, the grievance said. D.C. police officials could not be reached for comment.
Two years ago, union representatives assigned to monitor the creation of the database told the department that putting medical information in the widely used program would be a violation of ADA, according to the grievance. The representatives were removed, instead, Baumann said.
