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Legal benefits PBA members receive

 

LEGAL BENEFITS ARE AVAILABLE TO SSPBA MEMBERS IN ACCORDANCE WITH POLICY FOR INCIDENTS ARISING FROM THE PERFORMANCE OF A DIRECT LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTION.

Shooting and Serious Injury Incidents
When a call to the SSPBA emergency line is made on behalf of a member involved in a shooting or accident with serious injury, SSPBA will promptly have an attorney in touch with the member, going to the scene if necessary. The attorney will represent the member to the resolution of the incident.
 
Civil Suits and Criminal Action
An attorney is assigned to ensure that the member is adequately represented and, if necessary, the attorney will personally represent the member until resolution of the action. No cap or limit.

Grievance and Disciplinary Representation
SSPBA chapters assist members through the early levels of their appeals. Upon approval of the chapter, the SSPBA legal department will review the case for assignment of an attorney at the last level of appeal.

 

With PBA’s Legal Defense Benefit…

“Do I need committee approval?”
NO!
 
“Do I need the general membership’s approval?”
NO!
 
“Will personalities be involved in my request?”
NO!
 
“Will inner-circle politics be involved?”
NO!

 

Under the Legal Defense Benefit of the PBA, only four simple questions are asked…
 
 1. Are you a PBA member in good standing?
 
  2. Were you a PBA member on the day of the incident?
 
3. Have you maintained your membership?
 
  4. Was the incident within the scope of your official duties in performing a law enforcement function?

As a PBA member, you will have available to you 24-hour coverage, PLUS there is no dollar limit on your coverage!
 
 
 
 
 
 
For further coverage details, please contact the SSPBA Legal Department at (800) 233-3506 ext 2.

 

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May 6, 2026

Hayden Linton was born in San Diego, California but has called Rogers, Arkansas home since the age of three when his dad retired from the Navy. His hometown offers a powerful sense of community that Hayden appreciates. "No matter where you go or what you are doing, you will always be greeted by happy people, with a smile on their face. In Rogers as a kid, it was also very rare to be bored." He continues, "We have countless hidden gems behind every corner that make this city so entertaining to live in and so easy to call home."

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Alabama Scholarship Winner Puts One Foot in Front of the Other

April 22, 2026

Jackson Patterson is a freshman at the University of South Alabama with several big ambitions. He's just not sure which ones he will follow yet. "Right now, my biggest challenge is deciding what I want my future to look like," he told me. He's studying engineering, and it's possible that he chooses to go straight into building a career in the aerospace industry after college. But it's also possible that he takes an even more interesting path ? he's interested in traveling the world and performing on stage, for example ? because if one thing's for sure about Jackson, it's that he's willing to branch out and try new things that he finds exciting ? even if they're unconventional.

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