Fired for Facebook protest, worker sues for sexual harassment
June 1, 2010 by donal brown
Filed under 1st Amendment News, Freedom of Speech / Press, News & Opinion
A medical technician is seeking damages for civil rights violations, sexual harassment, and assault and battery after her supervisor allegedly harassed and assaulted her. She was fired shortly after a Facebook posting saying her boss need to “keep his creepy hands off” her. -db
Courthouse News Service
June 1, 2010
By Joe Harris
TOPEKA, Kan. (CN) – A medical [...]
Atherton: Pay-out to former police officer not reported to residents
January 7, 2010 by donal brown
Filed under 1st Amendment News, Access to Records, News & Opinion, Sunshine Ordinances
In settling a claim by a retired police officer involving sexual harassment and disability, Atherton officials failed to make the settlement public until a month later. -DB
The Almanac
January 6, 2010
By Andrea Gemmet
Atherton officials said that the failure to inform residents about a $230,000 pay-out to a former police officer was an oversight, and one that [...]
A&A: Councilman asks intern on date via city issued cell
November 20, 2009 by Deborah Fruin
Filed under Asked & Answered
Q: I have learned that a city councilman was sending text messages to a city intern, asking her for a date. I would like to file a CPR request for the text messages sent from his city issued Blackberry. I’m sure they (the councilman and the city attorney) would try to argue that such a [...]
California buy-out firm chills First Amendment
July 22, 2009 by donal brown
Filed under 1st Amendment News, News & Opinion
When the San Diego Reader asked Platinum Equity – who recently purchased another newspaper in town, the San Diego Union-Tribune – the nature of the dismissal of a case of sexual harassment brought by two former employees of Platinum, the firm sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Reader, warning them not to publish the letter [...]
No light shines on harassment settlements in California legislature
July 21, 2009 by donal brown
Filed under 1st Amendment News, Access to Records, Uncategorized
The California State Assembly and Senate have paid significant sums of money to settle harassment cases in the workplace but a 1968 open-records law keeps the details of the cases secret. -DB
Los Angeles Times
July 16, 2009
By Patrick McGreevy
Reporting from Sacramento—State Senate officials have secretly approved a $70,000 legal settlement that prohibits a staffer who accused a [...]
