Perhaps you may recall earlier this year when Jimmy Williamson fired one of his employees because he didn’t interpret the law the way it was written the way Williamson interpreted the law.
This being ‘Murica, you can guess the next step.
Last month Puglise and his daughter and law partner, Brooke Puglise, sued on Park’s behalf the Board of Regents, Williamson, Huff and Rankin for wrongful termination and retaliation in violation of Georgia’s whistleblower law. They also brought claims for defamation, slander, obstruction of an officer, violation of oath of office and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
This being Jimmy Williamson, you can guess the conclusion.
A former University of Georgia police officer who filed a whistleblower suit claiming he was fired for obeying a 2014 law barring criminal charges against anyone voluntarily seeking medical help for an alcohol or drug overdose has reached a $325,000 settlement with state.
The settlement comes less than a month after the officer, Jay Park, sued the state Board of Regents, the UGA Police Department and his former superiors there. It includes an agreement under which the defendants will send a letter to the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council “exonerating him from any wrongdoing,” said Park’s attorney, Michael Puglise of Snellville’s Puglise Law Firm.
I bet writing the letter pisses off Williamson a lot more than the monetary settlement does. After all, it’s not like the $325K is coming out of his pocket.
Get The Picture 
I’d like to suggest that the Daily Report replace “claiming” with “after” in their article.
filed a whistleblower suit “after” he was fired for obeying a 2014 law
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One of the MANY problems with the “holier than thou” University of Georgia.
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Scooter Alert!!!! Sudden urgency to cover the $325,000 tab. Seriously, I would load the team on the plane today and get them down to Jax and out of harm’s way for the rest of the week.
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DEFCON 2 – FAST PACE – Next step to nuclear war, emerging from alley and/or lack of middle name or initial. Forces of Jimmy ready to deploy and engage in less than T-minus 6 hours
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Aus, police depts nowadays have insurance for that. But I suppose the premiums could go up, in which case …
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I remember this when it happened..thought it was ridiculous then, and knows it is now. Not sure how JW keeps his job.
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He obviously knows were the bodies are buried. This guy thinks he is J. Edgar Hoover. Just remember the school as the NCAA spokesman said in an earlier post is suppose to act like a parent. Ole Jimmy believes in that spare the rod spoil the child stuff.
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In loco parentis
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In loco police chief
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He’s protected by the same group that didn’t fire Adams
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It’s going to take a lot of citations to kids not giving their middle names to offset that $325k.
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3250 of them?
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Park may see only 200k what with the costs that the poor barristers have to put up with nowadays. Travel costs as computed by UGA’s standards of mid-state to Athens for the Puglises and their other family members not admitted to the bar , witnesses having to be rounded up from various bars, phone calls and trips to Bang LaDesh (small house of prostitution run by Mimi LaDesh near Atl ), bar tabs and sundries.
Question: Doesn’t UGA’s medical insurance cover rehab cases? Couldn’t this have been done w/o the sturm and drang from JimWill? If so, why shouldn’t he be fired for mismanagement?
Lookout. The players have the weekend off and Jimmy will be waiting for them when they return or looking for them if they don’t get out of town.
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Meh. Maybe the barristers took it on a contingency. Was the officer fired, outta work for a year? Future in his chosen career in doubt?…. Now restored…money in the bank? IDK. $200,000 is a lot more than he had ….good on the barristers. “Just win baby”
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As a tax payer here that really pisses me off. Isn’t Jimmy supposed to know the law? It’s maddening.
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“Isn’t Jimmy supposed to know the law?”
Jimmy is the law
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He makes it up as he goes along.
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Nope if Jimmy was the law he would not have to pay 325K. Jimmy is a law enforcement officer. If he was king the check wouldn’t have to be cut.
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Does this mean the official training video is not bona fide?
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DIF…where do you get this stuff?
Sometimes I wonder if you’re not snitching from Cojones Cookie Jar. Maybe thaz why he was Mia for so long …you stole his stash. ;-(
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Eat shit Jimmy Williamson.
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Step one. Step two, fire Jimmy Williamson in disgrace. And make his children watch.
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Nah…kids had nothing to do with b it.
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Very Game of Thrones of you DN.
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Agreed, Senatore. It’s all about pride and being the BMOC for JW. I always imagine Captain from Cool Hand Luke when I think of him.
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“What we got here–is an officer following the law instead of following MY law. You see, now he’s lost his job…Its the way he wanted it. Well he gets it.”
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Excellent
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Not sure 325k sends much of a message. An Arpaio wanna-be would want these settlements up in the millions. That’ll teach …., um, who are we sending the message to again?
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Taxpayers?
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Williamson and Adams were bad because they majored in minors. With all the major issues on heavy drugs and violence they went for the low fruit because it was simple to nitpick the menial. Adams is gone, Williamson should follow. Good law enforcement doesn’t waste so much of their time on such small BS. Repeat offenders, and those that resist law officers, I am in favor of ticketing and/or arrest in those cases but let the minor offenders where no one is injured get a good scare, and make amends without being booked and getting a record over trivial things. Williamson never seemed to understand some discretion and judgment are involved. And if he doesn’t get it, let the judges show him by dismissing the cases as a waste of taxpayer money.
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Reduce his budget. UGA po po has over 100 employees. UGA has a student population of 35k. That’s about the population of Peachtree City, which polices a much, much larger geographic area with half the staff.
If Williamson had to make due with a staff of 15 employees (or less), there would be much less time for needlessly harassing students and visitors.
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Good point, it would help them focus on areas of true need. Could always use help from surrounding police officers if they had an emergency.
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Jimmy Williamson is a turd. I’ve been on six campuses as a student, grad student, and teacher, and I’ve never seen a more adversarial relationship between campus police and people on campus – whether students or guests – than I’ve seen at UGA. Everywhere else I’ve been, the campus police have been polite and professional, but they’re rude, confrontational, and condescending at UGA. That comes straight from Williamson, who evidently sees every person other than himself, his officers, and higher administration, as nuisances to be cited as often as possible.
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My brother in law is a police officer in Jacksonville. He is a funny, kind, and a kid at heart. He talks about these other officers that are in the force just to feed their ego power needs. They get bent out of shape over any perceived lax enforcement of the law (and consequent loss of control over other people). In The military they call this obsession with rules “chicken shit”. JW is just that kind of officer who made his way to the top. Captain chicken shit.
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Sounds more like he’s a Chicken Colonel Shithead. They can find their ass one-handed. Those types can be lead (with very little effort) into a potential pot bust just past your front lawn as you have a nice private cookie party with friends while cheering his efforts looking for non-existent plants using boats. Some of my friends live for guys like Jimmy just for sport. Plants have been trimmed to look like low level shrubbery, generally grown openly on the southwestern corner of their house and disguise scent eradication devices that ingeniously blend in with their ground slab-mounted AC unit’s fan. These people grow for their own use, they don’t sell or deal except to swap varieties amongst each other and many only grow every two or three years. Jimmy could never comprehend that this is the pot story in ‘murica, somewhat like moonshine distilled for home use(it’s more illegal to have small distillation apparatus than a bong).
Yeah. he’s the control freak that many law officers despise, as did his man Park.
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