Edhat StaffBy edhat staff
A former Santa Barbara Police dispatcher was awarded $1.28 million in a whistleblower lawsuit against the city, reports The Independent.
A Santa Barbara jury ruled that Bridget Bryden should receive back-pay from the day of termination in March 2016 to the day she would have been eligible to retire six years later. Bryden argued that she was terminated after voicing concerns about reductions to the qualifications required for new dispatchers amid a dispatcher shortage at the department.
The Santa Barbara Police Department reduced the new applicant test scores required from 90 to 65. Bryden, a 24-year veteran and Thomas Guerry Award winner, argued this posed a risk to officers and the public.
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She was not terminated, she quit. That the city didn’t hire her back after she changed her mind, is the issue
Let’s not mix hoaxes with real events please.
Reality attested to by numerous highly reliable witnesses and even admitted to by the defendant isn’t a hoax just because unamerican traitors say it is.
The claim that the “perfect phone call” is a hoax is a new one that even Gym Jordan and Devin’s Cow haven’t offered: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/fox-legal-analyst-today-was-a-good-day-for-anyone-who-wants-to-shorten-the-trump-presidency/
To call this bad faith would be too generous. Here’s the real hoax: https://apnews.com/08dd50fd26b6498b8f79ab2dbf023f7f
Perfect example of why whistleblowers need to be protected against retribution by the institutions they are trying to have investigated for malfeasance. The rule of law is the underlying basis of protections for whistleblowers. Those that try to disparage or punish them indicate their guilt, but also their lack of respect for good management, laws, and the public’s best interests.
$1.28 million for 6 years of back pay? That’s roughly $200k+ a year.
Indeed. There should be criminal penalties for intentionally outing whistleblowers or for inciting others to do so. (Now back to the hearings.)
How much does she receive after lawyers’ fees, etc?
Transparent.Com says in her last few years of work she made about $138K, salary and benefits. The 1.28M probably gives her money for that and also covers her lawyer’s award for winning.
That’s what whistleblowers do – the right thing. If not for those brave souls, corruption would run rampant.
Sums up the responses around here to the facts about whistleblowers, impeachment hearings, climate science, etc. pretty well.