Police Officers Fighting For Their Right to Bare Their Tattoos

Author:
Inked Mag Staff
Updated:
Oct 10, 2018
Original:
Apr 12, 2017

Chicago PD Officers Fight Against Strict Department Tattoo Policy

Three Chicago police officers took to the Seventh District Courts to proclaim that the tattoo policy, which obligated them to cover up the tattoos on their arms – in any weather – violated their First Amendment rights.

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The plaintiffs included Officer Daniel Medici, who is an Iraq War vet, and wears wings and a halo tattoo as a memorial piece to his fallen comrades, and Officers John Kukielka and Dennis Leet, who each have St. Michael tattoos, the patron saint of police. The three were in the courts last Friday (April 7) presenting arguments to convince circuit judges that a tattoo policy implemented by former police superintendent, Gary McCarthy, requiring Chicago police officers to cover up any visible tattoos while on duty – often forcing officers to wear long sleeve shirts in the dead heat of summer – was a violation of their rights.