Public Enemy No. 1: The Police Whistleblower

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In this introductory episode, Kelly Donovan explains why protecting police whistleblowers is so important and she shares her story of what happened to her when she chose to report to the police services board what she believed were abuses of power when police investigate themselves for domestic violence.