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Is SPFPA Region 3 VP Ryan Kelly a Nazi Party Sympathizer? Check out his SWASTIKA Twitter Post?
On a Twitter post by SPFPA Region 3 Vice President Ryan Kelly, and an Executive Board member of the International Union, Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA), Kelly clearly shows his discontent for the 2020 presidential election citing:
"The 2020 U.S. General Election is Illegitimate" followed with a SWASTIKA on the Twitter Logo dated Jan 8th.

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Apr 125 min read


Statement of FACTS that SPFPA Pres David L. Hickey Cannot Deny
STATEMENT OF FACTS SPFPA President David L. Hickey CANNOT DENY!
International Union, Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA). is a labor organization based in Roseville, Michigan that represents protective security officers at federal workplaces. Pursuant to that representation, SPFPA executed collective bargaining agreements with several employers covering the security industry in several states.

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Mar 319 min read


It is Time for a Leadership Transition at SPFPA.
It is time for a leadership transition at SPFPA.
David L. Hickey has led this union for decades, but tenure alone cannot justify the decisions that have put millions of dollars in member dues at risk. According to the Department of Labor Records filed by SPFPA, since 2017, SPFPA Hickey has spent more than $3,000,000 million dollars in legal fees from his dues paying members hard earned money pursuing legal action against a rival union—without recovering a single dollar.

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Mar 292 min read


Feds Investigate SPFPA Security Union Leader
Federal agents have raided the home of a Michigan-based labor boss amid allegations that he may have stolen money from union members who guard nuclear power facilities and a NASA space center, according to the Detroit News.

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Mar 275 min read


Why did SPFPA President David L. Hickey Close a Blind Eye to the O'Quinn's Conflict of Interest?
This was clearly a conflict of interest and SPFPA President David L. Hickey knew about this conflict of interest between SPFPA, and Patronus Systems since 2010 and did nothing about it. WHY -- That's over a decade of silence. --Members deserved protection.

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Mar 263 min read


Former SPFPA Local 300 President at NASA accused of stealing $23,000 from her SPFPA Local Union
Kemberly Fields, a former commissioned law officer and President of the Security, Police, Fire Union Local 300, was accused of stealing $23,000 from her union.

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Mar 243 min read


Kentucky Security Officers SPFPA Local 112 Secretary Pleads Guilty & Sentenced for Theft
On September 26, Laura Cloyd, former financial secretary of Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America Local 112, pleaded guilty in the Campbell County, Kentucky Circuit Court to one count of felony theft and one count of misdemeanor theft from the Alexandria, Ky.-based union. A month later, on October 25, she was sentenced to three years of diversion and ordered to pay $1,669 in restitution. The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office

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Mar 183 min read


SPFPA President in Detroit Sentenced for Larceny
On August 23, Esper Alexander, former president of Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America Local 1111, was sentenced in Wayne County (Michigan) District Court for the State of Michigan to six months of probation and three days of community service for larceny by conversion of funds from the Detroit union in a sum of at least $200 but less than $1,000. He had pleaded guilty in July. The actions follow an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-M

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Mar 172 min read


Former SPFPA Region 3 Director Pleads Guilty and is forced to resign his position as SPFPA Region 3 Director.
Michael Hough Former Security, Police, Fire Union Region 3 Director pleads guilty and is forced to resign his position as Region 3 Director. The case involved Mr. Hough stealing a former rival security unions entire membership list and other confidential information upon resigning his position as Vice President of UGSOA and turning this confidential information over to the Security, Police Fire Union to be used to raid UGSOA shops. Federal Agents Raided Hough’s home and caugh

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Mar 122 min read


Former SPFPA Local 576 Financial Secretary Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement
On July 31, Dianne Drawdy, former financial secretary of Security, Police and Fire Professionals Local 576 in Baxley, Georgia, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia to embezzling union funds in the amount of $17,900. She had been charged in April following an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.

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Mar 103 min read


SPFPA President in Michigan Sentenced for Embezzlement
On February 15, Devon Madray, former president of Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA) Local 119, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan to five years of probation and ordered to pay $20,097 in restitution and a $100 special assessment, for embezzling funds from the Roseville, Mich. union.

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Mar 82 min read


DOJ Investigating SPFPA Local - at Disney Land - in Theft of $160K
The United States Department of Labor (DOL) is investigating the theft of $160,0000 from the union pension funds for workers at California’s Disneyland from a local of the Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA) union.

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Mar 53 min read


SPFPA Financial Secretary-Treasurer of Local 238 Sent to Federal Prison for Embezzlement
ROCKFORD — A Whiteside County man has been sentenced to a federal prison term for embezzling from SPFPA Local 238, a labor organization.

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Mar 23 min read


MGM Casino, SPFPA Local 1111 Union Face Federal Charges for Playing Fast and Loose with Worker's Rights
On November 18, Cullens, an MGM Grand Detroit employee since 2001, delivered a letter to her employer and the Security, Police, and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA) Local 1111 union notifying them that she was resigning her union membership and revoking her union dues deduction authorization – a document used by union officials to collect dues from workers’ paychecks. She also sent the letters by certified mail to the union on November 21.

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Feb 114 min read


SPFPA Financial Secretary-Treasurer Local 238 Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement from a Labor Union
BRENT TOPPERT, 42, was the elected Financial Secretary-Treasurer of Local 238 of the Security, Police, and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA). The SPFPA represented members engaged in providing security at a nuclear plant in Cordova, Ill. Toppert admitted in a plea agreement that in 2018 he made an unauthorized withdrawal of $500 from a bank account owned by the SPFPA, and that the withdrawal was not for business purpose. Toppert admitted that he converted this money to

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Feb 103 min read


Vogtle Nuclear Security Officers Overwhelmingly Vote to Remove SPFPA as their Representative
Waynesboro, GA (February 10, 2026) - – Nuclear security officers working for Southern Nuclear Operating Company have freed themselves from the control of Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA) union officials in their workplace.

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Feb 93 min read


SPFPA "I Work to get Paid; I Don't Pay to Work" - Juan Vielma El Paso, Texas.
At the order of officials from the International Union of Security Police and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA), AKAL suspended Juan without pay for over a year because he had exercised his right under Texas’ Right to Work law to refuse to pay union dues. Texas is one of 24 Right to Work states that prohibit compulsory dues.

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Feb 63 min read


Nuclear Security Officers at Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant Demand Vote to Remove SPFPA Union
Nuclear Security Officers at Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant collect enough signatures to prompt federal labor board to administer SPFPA union removal vote.

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Jan 73 min read


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Eyes on SPFPA is a blog and media platform that reports on internal issues, controversies, and legal matters involving the Security, Police, and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA) union.

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