Riverside Sheriff's Assn. v. County of Riverside CA4/3

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

RSA is a labor association that represents persons employed in County’s law enforcement unit. This unit includes investigators with the district attorney’s office. Over the years, RSA and County have negotiated labor agreements, known as Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) governing the terms and conditions of employment for law enforcement unit employees. In the mid-1990’s, the Board created Policy D-10. The policy covers the overnight retention of County-owned vehicles by employees. The appellate record does

2 not contain a copy of the original policy, but the Board issued a revision of Policy D-10 in 2003. As revised, Policy D-10 limited overnight retention of County-owned vehicles to employees (1) routinely assigned to on-call duties that required use of a specially equipped vehicle, or (2) who worked at non-County facilities where “the distance from the employee’s residence to the . . . job site is less than the distance from the location where” the County vehicle would normally be parked overnight. Expressly excluded from the revised policy were vehicles assigned to persons who were allowed “use of a County vehicle as [a] condition of…