Perry v. Metropolitan Dade County

The appellants are employed by Dade County as law enforcement officers in the Metro-Dade Police Department, formerly known as the Dade County Public Safety Department. In a class action brought on behalf of themselves and some two thousand or more law enforcement officers similarly situated, the officers sought a declaration of their past and future entitlement to receive and retain the witness pay authorized by Sections 92.141 and 92.142, Florida Statutes (1979), which, during the approximate three years preceding the institution *296of the suit and presumably during its pend-ency, the officers…