The state’s Commonwealth Court has reversed the decision of Allegheny County Common Pleas Court on an arbitration decision on Pittsburgh police residency requirements.
As we noted in a 2012 Policy Brief, the requirement that police officers hired by the City of Pittsburgh to become residents of the City as a condition of employment was amended (from “shall” to “may”). An arbitration decision in March of 2014 ruled that City police would be able to reside within a 25 mile radius of Downtown Pittsburgh. The City took that ruling to Common Pleas Court, lost, appealed to Commonwealth Court, and won today.
