Public Enemy No. 1: The Police Whistleblower

Public Enemy No. 1: The Police Whistleblower

by Kelly Donovan

Documentary True Crime

Season 3

Finally going to be heard

Kelly finally has hearing dates for the Police vs. Whistleblower matter at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. Kelly also addresses the increase in police officer suicides in Ontario, despite repeated warnings by affected advocates.

A decade of retaliation

After a break from podcast episodes, Kelly updates listeners on how the legal saga continues. The police service has now spent over $816,000.00 on these legal matters and have not given up in their fight to silence Kelly.

Season 2

The price of inadequate whistleblower laws

Kelly was unsuccessful in her attempt to force the human rights tribunal to hear her multiple requests to dismiss the police service's case against her.

The sad state of Canadian whistleblower laws

Out of 60 countries, Canada has the worst whistleblower protection laws. Kelly takes listeners through a recent case that only came to light because of the persistence of a police whistleblower.

Season 1

We can all get behind truth

Kelly explains issues she had identified in the legal profession, and why things have to change so that self-represented litigants are not marginalized.

Did not buy my silence

It's one thing to agree to be silences by an NDA, but Kelly explains that she had always refused to be silenced by the police service, yet they continue to try to enforce an agreement against her, claiming that when she speaks publicly, she is violating an agreement.

Surveilled, persecuted and abandonned

Kelly reminds listeners what started all of this and made her Public Enemy No. 1. Learn why most police associations don't help women who make a "blue on blue" complaint, and what almost pushed Kelly over the edge at Christmas, 2022.

It was all a bad dream

In this episode, Kelly provides more detail about the two human rights cases, and goes back to the Court of Appeal for the second time.

Second kick at the can

While the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario cases slowed to a halt, Kelly pushed on with her civil lawsuit, in hopes to have her day in court against the police service and police chief.

Whistleblower retaliation

Kelly resigned from policing in June, 2017, but because was advocating for protection for police whistleblowers, she continued to face retaliation at the hands of her former police service.

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