Shafer

Plaintiff and appellant Shon Shafer (Shafer) appeals from that portion of a judgment denying his petition for writ of mandate that requested certain relief for an alleged violation of the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act (Gov. Code, § 3300 et seq.) (the Act) by respondents Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and Leroy Baca, in his capacity as Sheriff of the County of Los Angeles (collectively the sheriffs department). Shafer contends that respondents failed to comply with the Act by not advising him he was under investigation during a workers’ compensation deposition and by using improperly obtained information from another interrogation. The sheriffs department terminated Shafer for false statements made during the deposition and a later interrogation. By his petition, Shafer sought, inter alia, to prohibit the sheriffs department from using the deposition and later statements at the hearing on his appeal of his discharge before the Los Angeles City Civil Service Commission (the Commission). The trial court required the exclusion of one statement but not others. The Commission upheld the termination, and that decision is the subject of another…