mrsb,

As I recall, Russ Fine mentioned to me that he was amazed to learn that the federal whistleblower protection law offers no protection to the person who disclosed the police report (which is a public record that Irondale had improperly, and perhaps illegally, refused to release).

The polygraph witch hunt Ramsey had ordered -- to find a whistleblower who broke no law -- is indeed an outrage. The city council's public safety committee, which has taken over the hunt for the whistleblower, may yet order polygraph testing. If you are in a position to inform any city hall employees about this website, I hope you'll mention it to them. Anyone ordered to submit to a polygraph interrogation would benefit from reading The Lie Behind the Lie Detector first.