Drew WilsonFebruary 12, 2019
5min511
"We simply cannot sit back and allow such bigotry toward our fellow Americans"
Tag: discrimination
Drew WilsonFebruary 12, 2019
Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 28, 2019
7min486
The complainant alleges supervisors called employees "stupid a** cracker."
Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 27, 2019
6min587
St. Pete wants to evict Gibbons, he says it's political retribution.
Scott PowersJanuary 21, 2019
6min359
"We have so many great African-American appointees, already."
Staff ReportsJanuary 18, 2019
4min3303
Fried says she won't "tolerate discrimination ... on any basis"
Staff ReportsOctober 16, 2018
5min362
A federal judge has set a hearing for next Tuesday in the state Senate‘s lawsuit to put an end to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) investigation into a top aide’s sexual harassment and retaliation claims. Rachel Perrin Rogers, chief assistant to Senate Republican Leader and future Senate President Wilton Simpson, says former Sen. Jack Latvala repeatedly groped her and made unwelcome comments about […]
Scott PowersSeptember 26, 2018
3min411
Rachel Perrin Rogers is seeking court testimony from a who’s-who list of Tallahassee powers and insiders in her lawsuit alleging discrimination and retaliation against her from the Florida Legislature regarding the sexual harassment claims she raised last fall against former state Sen. Jack Latvala. Perrin Rogers, who is pursuing a lawsuit case through the U.S. […]
Danny McAuliffeApril 2, 2018
8min617
Those backing a move to include LGBT protections under the 1992 Florida Civil Rights Act have a message for legislative leadership: We’ll be back. Just nine days into the 2018 Legislative Session, 40 percent of the Legislature had publicly supported bills that would have codified in statutes nondiscrimination protections for sexual orientation and gender identity. […]
Associated PressApril 19, 2017
31min300
Richard Rodrigue stood in the back of a banquet hall, watching his blond-haired, blue-eyed daughter mingle among her high school classmates. These teenagers speak dozens of languages, and hail from a dozen African nations. They fled brutal civil war, famine, oppressive regimes to find themselves here, at an ordinary high school pre-prom fete in this […]
Jim RosicaDecember 1, 2016
3min266
An aide to then-Florida state Sen. Maria Lorts Sachs has sued his former employer, saying she “exposed (him) to unwelcome sexual conduct” by frequently undressing in front of him. Matthew Damsky sued the Florida Senate in Leon County Circuit Civil court this week on gender discrimination and retaliation charges. The 68-year-old Sachs, elected to the […]