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Sexually harassed while working for the law?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Working at the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office is like “Sodom and Gomorrah”? That’s how one former employee described her last years working for the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office.
The Fulton County Sheriff’s office is facing an $8 million sexual harassment lawsuit filed by four women who worked in the department under former Fulton Sheriff Myron Freeman. The allegations include charges of both verbal and physical harassment and Freeman and several officers are named in the lawsuit.
If you have worked in the field of law enforcement, do you think sexual harassment is more common there than in other government agencies? If you are a female job seeker, would you consider a career in law enforcement despite the challenge of working in a male-dominated environment?
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By William R. Leasure Sr.
January 20, 2009 9:39 AM | Link to this
I had a job as a Security Officer, I was on third shift {11pm to 7am}. A new female officer was working with me that night. When it was time to make rounds, she told me she wasn’t allowed to make rounds at night because it was to danagerous for a woman. I made all the rounds that night. The next morning when the Commander came in, I asked if that was Sex-Decrimation. Naturally he said no. I came to find out, He had written me up for insuborination and tried to terminate me. I had been so upset for that, I ended up quiting. I am tring to get unemployment for sexual decrimation but I’m not really hopeful.