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Second plaintiff added to federal whistleblower lawsuit against Maine CDC officials
https://bangordailynews.com/2014/09/19/politics/maybe-you-shouldnt-have-talked-to-the-newspapers-second-plaintiff-added-to-federal-whistleblower-lawsuit-against-maine-cdc-officials/
‘Maybe you shouldn’t have talked to the newspapers’: Second plaintiff added to federal whistleblower lawsuit against Maine CDC officials
Daryn Slover | Sun Journal
Sharon Leahy-Lind, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control's Division of Local Public Health, sent a complaint of discrimination
to the Maine Human Rights Commission alleging, among other things, that her bosses ordered her to destroy documents.
By Lindsay Tice, Sun Journal
Posted Sept. 19, 2014, at 2:41 p.m.
Last modified Sept. 19, 2014, at 6:36 p.m.
A second employee is suing the Maine Center for Disease Control.
A federal court judge ruled Friday that office manager Katie Woodbury can join the whistle-blower lawsuit filed by the former Maine CDC division director who first raised questions about document shredding within the department.
The judge also allowed two more CDC officials — Deputy Director Christine Zukas and Office of Minority Health and Health Equity Director Lisa Sockabasin — to be named as defendants. The suit originally named only CDC Director Sheila Pinette and the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the CDC.
The lawsuit now will have two plaintiffs and four defendants.
The ruling came Friday in response to a motion to amend filed in February by Sharon Leahy-Lind, former director of the Division of Public Health, who brought the suit. She has claimed her bosses at the CDC ordered her to shred public documents and then harassed and retaliated against her when she refused.
Woodbury’s claims are similar to Leahy-Lind’s, including harassment and retaliation for speaking publicly about problems at the CDC.
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‘Maybe you shouldn’t have talked to the newspapers’: Second plaintiff added to federal whistleblower lawsuit against Maine CDC officials
Daryn Slover | Sun Journal
Sharon Leahy-Lind, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control's Division of Local Public Health, sent a complaint of discrimination
to the Maine Human Rights Commission alleging, among other things, that her bosses ordered her to destroy documents.
By Lindsay Tice, Sun Journal
Posted Sept. 19, 2014, at 2:41 p.m.
Last modified Sept. 19, 2014, at 6:36 p.m.
A second employee is suing the Maine Center for Disease Control.
A federal court judge ruled Friday that office manager Katie Woodbury can join the whistle-blower lawsuit filed by the former Maine CDC division director who first raised questions about document shredding within the department.
The judge also allowed two more CDC officials — Deputy Director Christine Zukas and Office of Minority Health and Health Equity Director Lisa Sockabasin — to be named as defendants. The suit originally named only CDC Director Sheila Pinette and the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the CDC.
The lawsuit now will have two plaintiffs and four defendants.
The ruling came Friday in response to a motion to amend filed in February by Sharon Leahy-Lind, former director of the Division of Public Health, who brought the suit. She has claimed her bosses at the CDC ordered her to shred public documents and then harassed and retaliated against her when she refused.
Woodbury’s claims are similar to Leahy-Lind’s, including harassment and retaliation for speaking publicly about problems at the CDC.
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