Cop Sues for Being Fired Over Porn

verdugo alway has liked fame , so it wont surprise me that he sent tha sextape himself to be all over the news, and try to get some xtra money, he has always liked cameras arround him, just think about it

Steve, from NYC. I'm not arguing with what you are saying at all, in fact I agree with you. I just have a question to help me understand it better. In the application process is there actually a section that would cover pornography? Since it was a one time thing, does it need to be disclosed. When I was in college, I was paid to bartend at a function for one night. It was just because I knew the person putting it on and he needed guys to work that night. I made close to $1000 in hourly wage PLUS tips of course. I don't know that I would disclose that in a job application. I understand the difference between bartending and porn, but if he was not officially employed by someone but paid more like a "day laborer" would that still legally count? I'm sure he did not fill out a W2.

Wrongful termination. Appearing in porn isn't illegal and he did it once. Only the police forces' bad actions reflect on them. No one remembered or knew until someone dug it up. There would be no reason to report it in a job interview. It's not like he's an adult entertainment star and certainly not going to take away from his work or image since no one knew until the TV show pulled it up. The police force should become big men and shake it off, and if not he should sue them for everything he can. Wrong all around.

"Verdugo, who is gay, said he didn't think a straight cop who appeared in straight porn would have been fired." I totally disagree! A straight person would have been fired for doing porn. Porn will and has never been a accepabtle profession in a career in public service.

I'm not sure how you can infer that he "sounds like a good cop" since there is nothing written about what he did while on the job. Background investigations are usually very explicit that any omission on the application is considered lying. Background investigations for police officers are extensive and very detailed. They usually contain 30+ pages of information you have to give from every job you have ever worked, every address you have ever lived at, people you have known for a significant period of time, financials, drug use history, how frequently you drink alcohol and/or smoke, education, etc - along with having to explain potential gaps or concerns they have about your history. Imagine an officer arrests you for an offense and "omits" info that justifies your actions on the probable cause affidavit, how would you feel? If his porn was done legally he should have disclosed it. As an openly gay officer I find it a little offensive that he is blaming this on being gay.

Everyone knows that bondage and police work go together, just like coffee and donuts!

If what he did as a consenting adult was not illegal, then I hope he does get his job back. If they asked him on the job application specifically about doing porn, then it's understandable they release him (like Carrie Prejean, same arguement!).

I hope he makes it. He sounds like a good cop, and making a bondage film isn't against the law, especially if he did it way before he was hired. We have cops here in DFW that are really nothing more than street thugs with a uniform, having committed all sorts of crimes and misdemeanors in the past.

Was there a specific question he didn't answer when he was hired? How was that question phrased, I wonder? Or if there wasn't a question that seems pertinent to perfectly legal activity like this, why would he be expected to "disclose" it? - "the department fired him in January 2009 for not disclosing the film appearance when he applied to join the force." These mini-articles in the Advocate are a little frustrating sometimes. I get the impression that probably the mainstream local newspaper, even if they were snarky &/or homophobic about it (& maybe they weren't), they described the FACTS of the case better. (Hot man though, so at least you got the pic in!)