NJ.com report
Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop and his Department of Public Safety suffered another defeat in their battle to keep cops from using cannabis when a state board overturned a police officer’s termination and ordered he receive backpay.
The 36-page decision by the state Office of Administrative Law related to Police Officer Mackenzie Reilly’s cannabis use now heads to the state Civil Service Commission to be adopted, modified or rejected.
The Civil Service Commission has adopted prior decisions in the cases of Omar Polanco and Norhan Mansour, city police officers who were ordered reinstated and be awarded backpay.
Reilly like Mansour and Polanco, is represented by attorney Michael Rubas. Earlier this year Mansour and Polanco sued the city for not immediately reinstating them to the police force. They still have not been reinstated.
Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop has not relented in his position that police officers who use cannabis are violating federal law and cannot carry a firearm.
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Here’s the NJ Office of Administrative Law website.. as of 15 June I’m unable to find the report live on the site
