‘I don’t buy that’: Questions arise over San Jose fire department’s Pink Poodle investigation
into a San Jose fire crew’s infamous visit to the Pink Poodle strip club, experts in personnel investigations and the city’s former mayor are questioning the honesty of the employees involved in the incident — most of whom were not disciplined for behavior that appears to violate fire department policies.
All four of the firefighters insisted they could not recall that part of the trip. The investigation, however, concluded it is “more likely than not” that the two-minute stop at A.J.’s occurred at Tognozzi’s behest. The 100-page investigatory report was released following a lawsuit by this news organization; a judge ruled in favor of disclosure in July. The incident rocked the South Bay city in October after a popular Instagram account called San Jose Foos posted a video from outside the Pink Poodle showing a bikini-clad woman emerging from the engine with the caption, “Only in San Jose do you see a stripper come out of a firetruck.
McGuire also sought to justify the city’s initial refusal to release the report, which Superior Court Judge Thomas Kuhnle found to violate California law. “The City takes great care to balance the privacy rights of reporting parties and witnesses to alleged misconduct in an effort to encourage employees and members of the public to raise concerns,” she said.
When confronted with GPS data showing the stop at A.J.’s, Tognozzi told investigators, “I don’t know. I don’t know what to tell you. I don’t remember the second leg of the trip.” Another firefighter, Clark, said, “Yeah. I hear what you’re saying. I also don’t know why we went that way. Um, and I don’t know.”
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