RFP Staff
♦ Dateline Salisbury— On February 24, 2016 at 4:31 p.m., the Honorable Robert C. Ervin filed his order in Lane v. City of Salisbury, (14 CVS 432), denying the City of Salisbury’s motion to seal ex-Chief Collins deposition. The order, attached for your edification and education, however reveals little in the way of findings of fact or conclusions of law, which often are illustrative of a jurist’s thought process. It was still a good decision, supportive of the public’s right to know and RFP’s right to inform. Senator Sam Ervin would be proud.
Now the rest can be told. Mr. Lane was “fired” a few years back for matters inconsequential and filed suit back in 2014 by David Shelby of Doran, Shelby, Pethel and Hudson.
After the ex-Chief’s embarrassing revelations in his deposition, the case was settled without a “gag order”.
The settlement agreement, dated February 4th 2016, provides that Plaintiff Lane will dismiss his lawsuit with prejudice upon the following terms:
- $70,000.00 lump sum compensation, not inclusive of his paid unemployment compensation insurance (26 weeks at his rate).
- Plaintiff’s written resignation will be entered into the file.
- City provides a letter indicating his leaving the office as a resignation.
- The City will amend Mr. Lane’s F-5B form with Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission to show he resigned (The original filled out by ex-Chief Collins ended Lanes Law enforcement career).
Our congratulations to Mr. Kenny Lane, an outstanding Police Officer who was no doubt treated badly by the ex-Chief and/or Zack Kyle and Ruth Kennerly down at H-R. How much tax money was wasted and will be wasted in the future by their unprofessional and ill-founded firings? They need to be terminated themselves, and a single professionally-trained Human Resources Director should replace them.
