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Washington DOC Settles Sex Harassment Suit for $250,000
Loaded on May 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2001, page 20
WA DOC Settles Sex Harassment Suit for $250,000
Filed under:
Staff-Staff Harassment,
Retaliation,
Retaliation against Staff,
Parole,
Employee Litigation.
Location:
Washington.
In December 2000, the Washington Department of Corrections paid $250,000 to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by a former community corrections officer who says she was fired after complaining to superiors about the harassment.
Shawnae Fossum claimed in her 1997 lawsuit ...
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