Arbitrator overrules Chicago Police tattoo cover-up edict

Fired Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy violated the police contract when he "unilaterally" required rank-and-file police officers to cover up their tattoos, an independent arbitrator has ruled.

Five months after a federal judge ruled that the no visible tattoo edict does not violate the officers' First Amendment rights, arbitrator Jacalyn Zimmerman upheld a grievance filed by the Fraternal Order of Police.

"The appropriate remedy is for the department to rescind the revisions and restore the prior policy, rescind and make employees whole for any discipline issued pursuant to these revisions and to make employees whole for any discipline issued pursuant to these revision and to make employees whole for their demonstrable losses resulting from compliance with the revisions," Zimmerman wrote.

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