Reed v. County of Orange

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO DECERTIFY CONDITIONAL FLSA CLASS

CORMAC J. CARNEY, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Plaintiff Margaret Reed initiated this collective action on behalf of herself and other sheriffs’ deputies employed by the Orange County Sheriffs Department (“OCSD”) under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). Plaintiffs allege that the OCSD maintains an unofficial policy and practice of training and discouraging deputies from reporting off-the-clock work and did not compensate deputies for donning and doffing uniforms, a myriad of pre-shift…