Oregon civil rights company’s former chief recordsdata $2.3M discrimination lawsuit: report

A black attorney hired to head the Oregon State Civil Rights Bureau in 2019 has filed a $ 2.3 million lawsuit. She claimed white subordinates had dismissed their expertise and, according to a report, refused to follow her instructions.

The alleged mistreatment involved delivering an anonymous poop package to her home in June 2020, according to OregonLive.com, the lawsuit said.

Carol Johnson previously headed the Fair Housing Commission in Arkansas before hiring in Oregon, the report said. She resigned from her position in Oregon in 2020 and started a new, similar position in Austin, Texas in February of that year.

Johnson’s lawsuit marks the second time in five years that a black attorney working for a government agency in Oregon has alleged racial discrimination, according to the report.

In a previous case, attorney Erious Johnson, who worked for the state Department of Justice, reached a $ 205,000 settlement with the state after his own agency investigated the use of a surveillance tool to monitor people who tagged the “Black” hashtag Lives Matter “had used media for social purposes, according to the news agency.

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In Johnson’s case, she claims that when she raised her concerns to Oregon labor officials, she was told that most black professionals in Oregon don’t last long, according to a lawsuit Johnson filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court.

Carol Johnson. (Austin, Texas, city website)

State civil rights attorneys have dismissed Johnson’s allegations, the report said. In addition, Labor Commissioner Val Hoyle – one of the labor officials Johnson complained to – said she had hired a “neutral investigator” to investigate Johnson’s allegations.

The investigator’s report is pending, according to OregonLive.com, Hoyle said.

Johnson’s lawsuit alleges she had no authority to discipline or admonish her employees for poor job performance or disobedience, alleging that doing so undermined their authority and made them vulnerable to further ill-treatment.

The lawsuit also alleges Johnson resisted trying to launch a civil rights complaint investigation training program.

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“Several Caucasian employees were antagonistic and disrespectful to an experienced African-American moderator,” the lawsuit said. Johnson added that her complaints about treatment have been ignored.

In July 2020, Johnson announced plans to resign, claiming “ceaselessly discriminatory working conditions”.

Shortly thereafter, Hoyle issued a statement to employees saying she would not tolerate “anti-black bias in our workplace”.

The Johnson lawsuit claims economic damages of $ 17,000 and noneconomic damages of $ 2.3 million, OregonLive.com reported.