The lawsuit, filed by the City of Mobile's three K-9 officers, seeks back pay with interest along with other damages, attorneys’ fees and asks that a judge declare the city’s policies and practices violate the officers’ rights.
The city provides dog runs and doghouse attachments built at the officers’ homes, the lawsuit states. And at any given time, the officers will have one to three dogs assigned to their care each day.
McKean, the leader of the unit, has requested pay increases for the K-9 officers since 2017. In his latest request on March 28 of this year, he said it would be “reasonable to compensate our canine handlers with a half hour of overtime for each workday and for off days. This would be 3.5 hours weekly and 14 hours a month.”
McKean cited in his memo how other departments compensate K-9 officers.
Byrd has worked as a police officer in Mobile since August of 2004. He was assigned in 2013 to the department’s K-9 Unit, according to the lawsuit.
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