A Riverside Superior judge threw out two-thirds of a case that alleged discriminatory treatment of Hispanic officers at the Riverside Police Department Dec. 21.
Frank Hoyos, a Riverside police officer since 2001, brought the case. Hoyos was on the department’s SWAT Team, ran the Shooting Range and Firearms Training Unit and was selected as Auto Theft Sergeant in June, 2020, according to his April 4, 2022 complaint.
He believes his complaints alleging unfair promotional practices and unequal distribution of assignments in favor of white officers has damaged his career, his complaint says.
The court’s ruling threw out the claims against individual officers, and left the city as the only
