South Dakota Police Officer Has No Property Right to Employment

A police officer dismissed from the South Dakota city of Sisseton doesn’t have a state property interest in an at-will contract, the Eighth Circuit affirmed.

Samantha LaCoe was forced to resign from her first job out of college after the city’s chief of police alleged she included false or inaccurate information in four stopped vehicle reports, according to the opinion issued Tuesday. While she alleged that the resignation was made under duress and that the department failed to train her absent sexually discriminatory conduct, on appeal she argued that a lower court made an error in granting Sisseton immunity and ...