LEO Round Table is an internet based law enforcement talk show. This is episode 40, recorded on 05/02/2016, with the following on-air personalities: Chip DeBlock (Host), Luke Lirot (Attorney), Bret Bartlett, Mark Hopper, and Charles Humphrey. We produce two 30 minute shows each week that are normally released on our YouTube channel Tuesdays and Thursdays. In addition to your host, the other panelists (except for attorney Luke Lirot) are active or retired law enforcement officers as well.
Topic 1 concerns the heated and highly controversial topic of enforcing transgender bathroom policies. Target stores’ new policy to open its bathrooms to transgender shoppers and employees, allowing them to choose whichever bathroom they feel like using at any given time, was also discussed. Related incidents were also covered in Oxford, Alabama with the Oxford City Council and North Carolina’s House Bill 2. Quoted in this story was Oxford City Attorney Ron Allen, Oxford Police Chief Bill Partridge, Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Alabama Manager Eva Walton Kendrick, North Carolina State Senator David Brock and Richland County (South Carolina) Sheriff Leon Lott. The following groups were also referenced: National Center for Transgender Equality, Human Rights Campaign, American Civil Liberties Union, American Family Association, Journal of Homosexuality and the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law.
