TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jan 22, 2026

Two former Soddy-Daisy police officers who claimed they were wrongfully terminated for speaking out about another officer's behavior will get $830,000, evenly split, in a settlement of their federal lawsuit against the city, the Times Free Press reports. According to the officers, they were fired after exposing another officer's alleged dishonesty by revealing the officer had lied in a previous internal affairs investigation. Their attorneys claimed the terminations were retaliation for their clients’ truthful actions, a violation of their freedom of speech.