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Frassetti resigns from police due to ongoing harassment

From: JP -- venfl.com
Date: 07/19/10
Time: 03:59 PM

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BREAKING -- STORY FORTHCOMING:
Michael Frassetti, the officer who successfully sued the City of Venice late last year to get his job back with the city's police department, has resigned from the department, reportedly due to ongoing harassment of himself and officers who supported him during his reinstatement hearing.

Frassetti had been actively seeking employment at other area agencies. According to Venice City Manager Isaac Turner, Frassetti has been hired by the Longboat Key Police Department. Turner denied that Frassetti resigned due to any claims of harassment, however information received by this web site indicated that Frassietti was unhappy about how he and some of his fellow officers have been treated in the wake of his ordered reinstatement.

Frassetti came to Venice from New York City, where he had been a highly decorated officer serving in the NYPD. Frassetti was once awarded the Officer of the Month award by the NYPD due to his quick investigation and arrest of a murderous drug dealer.

Frassetti was fired from the Venice Police Department after he was accused of destroying an electronic document and subsequently lying about it. A hearing officer last year determined that the department's investigation was "overly zealous" and "seriously flawed."

In subsequent training sessions offered by HTE, the city's software vendor, a software trainer employed by HTE has told officers that it is impossible for an officer to delete reports from the system, as Frassetti had been accused. The trainer stated to VPD employees that only the city's computer administrators would have passworded authorization to make such deletions, thus confirming what Frassetti and his attorney had argued all along -- that it was technologically impossible for Frassetti to do what he had been formally accused of, specifically deleting investigative police reports from the police department's data server.
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