{"active":true,"first_name":"Ashley","last_name":"Griffith","race":"Black","gender":"Male","rank":"SGT","command":{"command":"069 PCT","assignment_date":"2024-11-25","id":"69pct"},"shield_no":3043,"taxid":"958654","complaint_ids":[202106410,202003372,202001676,201906773,201906340,201906017,201904544,201903259,201807477,201803842,201800803],"command_history":[{"command":"PSA 4 VIPER","id":"880"},{"command":"INT DIV","id":"424"},{"command":"077 PCT","id":"77pct"}],"appt_date":"2015-07-08","age":33,"middle_initial":"A","shield_no_history":[19021],"lawsuits":[{"name":"Hoover, Eddie vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2022-07-05","disposition_date":"2024-07-02","payout_amount":17500,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"518846/2022","court":"Supreme Court - Kings","summary":"On January 4, 2021, at approximately 8:30 pm, Plaintiff was followed by an unmarked black vehicle with tainted window that repeated pull up next to Plaintiff. In response to the taunting, Plaintiff ran. Plaintiff stopped when he saw a marked NYPD car, from which uniformed Officers, including Officer Ashely Griffith, jumped out with tasers drown and ordered Plaintiff to the ground. Despite Plaintiff complying with the Officers' order, the Officers tackled and tightly handcuffed Plaintiff. Plaintiff was detained for approximately 36 hours. During that time, the Officers ignored Plaintiff's pleas for medicine to treat his chronic headaches and falsely stated to the DA's Office that Plaintiff was engaged in Criminal Possession of a Weapon among other charges even though at no point did the Officers recover any drugs, weapons, graffiti instruments, or other illegal contraband on Plaintiff. Plaintiff’s criminal case was dismissed and sealed on November 12, 2021.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=kZTZNIaNEVOwQcOL7oHLtw==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Ourlicht, David vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2019-06-26","disposition_date":"2020-01-31","payout_amount":17501,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"19CV03651","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Griffith, Ashley","summary":"On March 23, 2018, David Ourlicht, a law graduate with the Legal Aid Society, was stopped, questioned, frisked, and searched by Officers Griffith and Stembridge under the belief that Ourlicht was smoking marijuana. Despite finding nothing, the officers placed Ourlicht in tight handcuffs and arrested him for possession of marijuana and smoking in public. After being searched yet again at the precinct, Ourlicht was told that he was being charged only with destruction of evidence. Upon discovering that Ourlicht worked in the courts, the officers told him that this incident would not have happened had they known. After six hours spent in custody, Ourlicht was released due to a declination to prosecute.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.434856/gov.uscourts.nyed.434856.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/15820619/ourlicht-v-city-of-new-york/"}],"discipline":[{"disposition_date":"2024-08-15","penalty":"C - Command Discipline, vacation days (5 days)","recommendation":"Command Discipline - C","allegations":[{"desc":"License plate cover violation.\r\ntraffic infraction."}]},{"disposition_date":"2022-10-18","case_no":"2022-26277","recommendation":"Other","allegations":[{"desc":"Failed to make required entries in Department logs."},{"desc":"Failed to prepare required reports."}]}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21023877-griffith-578065f14bb357b73565b0e0c0abf502c988ab55","type":"brady-giglio","complaints":[{"complaint_id":202006402,"available":true}]},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21058278-griffith-958654-11-16-20","type":"brady-giglio"}],"payroll":{"salary":"118056","regular":"114067","overtime":"7101","other":"16493","total":"137661"},"id":"FY6V","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/FY6V"}