Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Amid a slumping recruiting class, San Diego's police department faces gender discrimination lawsuit
Lawsuit says department showed bias as a result of an on-job injury
Zimmerman testified to city councilmembers about a shortage of uniformed police officers and slumping recruiting efforts.
Days after San Diego's police chief Shelley Zimmerman testified to city councilmembers about a shortage of uniformed police officers and slumping recruiting efforts comes a new lawsuit accusing the department of discriminating against female recruits.
On May 2, former police recruit Kimberly Ludlam filed a lawsuit against the city for gender discrimination and for violating California's Fair and Equal Housing Act. She says that police brass treat female recruits differently than male recruits and are more accommodating in case of injuries while training.
Ludlam joined the San Diego Police Department in May 2014. Only weeks into training Ludlam injured her left shoulder during training exercises. An MRI later revealed a small fracture which required surgery. Ludlam was then transferred to the Central Telephone Reporting Unit in the force's Northwestern Division. In January of the following year Ludlam underwent arthroscopic surgery and was told not to do any heavy lifting.
In April 2015 police sergeant Manny Hernandez and two supervisors met with Ludlam and informed her that she would either need to hand in her resignation or accept a permanent position on the force's clerical department. Later that month Ludlam met with the department's director of human resources, Silvia Satrom. Hernandez and two high-ranking officers attended the meeting. Once again, they told Ludlam that the recruiting period could be no longer than one year and Ludlam had to either resign or take a clerical position. Ludlam rejected the two options and informed them that department policy allowed injured recruits time to heal before they were kicked out of the academy.
The following day she was handed a Notice of Failed Probation and asked to turn in all department-issued materials.
According to the lawsuit, Ludlam says the treatment is nothing new.
"[Ludlam] is informed and believes that other female police officer recruits have been similarly denied reasonable accommodations for their injuries at the Academy, and subsequently forced to re-class into a different city assignment or given a Notice of Failed Probation under the false guise that the department could not continue to pay them as police officer recruits given the length of time of their injuries."
In her complaint, Ludlam says she is aware of at least two female officers who were forced out due to injuries as well as numerous male officers who were allowed to extend their training due to injuries.
Ludlam is seeking damages for emotional distress, loss of wages, loss of health care benefits, other additional damages as well as attorney's fees.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Amid a slumping recruiting class, San Diego's police department faces gender discrimination lawsuit
Lawsuit says department showed bias as a result of an on-job injury
Amid a slumping recruiting class, San Diego's police department faces gender discrimination lawsuit
Lawsuit says department showed bias as a result of an on-job injury
Zimmerman testified to city councilmembers about a shortage of uniformed police officers and slumping recruiting efforts.
Days after San Diego's police chief Shelley Zimmerman testified to city councilmembers about a shortage of uniformed police officers and slumping recruiting efforts comes a new lawsuit accusing the department of discriminating against female recruits.
On May 2, former police recruit Kimberly Ludlam filed a lawsuit against the city for gender discrimination and for violating California's Fair and Equal Housing Act. She says that police brass treat female recruits differently than male recruits and are more accommodating in case of injuries while training.
Ludlam joined the San Diego Police Department in May 2014. Only weeks into training Ludlam injured her left shoulder during training exercises. An MRI later revealed a small fracture which required surgery. Ludlam was then transferred to the Central Telephone Reporting Unit in the force's Northwestern Division. In January of the following year Ludlam underwent arthroscopic surgery and was told not to do any heavy lifting.
In April 2015 police sergeant Manny Hernandez and two supervisors met with Ludlam and informed her that she would either need to hand in her resignation or accept a permanent position on the force's clerical department. Later that month Ludlam met with the department's director of human resources, Silvia Satrom. Hernandez and two high-ranking officers attended the meeting. Once again, they told Ludlam that the recruiting period could be no longer than one year and Ludlam had to either resign or take a clerical position. Ludlam rejected the two options and informed them that department policy allowed injured recruits time to heal before they were kicked out of the academy.
The following day she was handed a Notice of Failed Probation and asked to turn in all department-issued materials.
According to the lawsuit, Ludlam says the treatment is nothing new.
"[Ludlam] is informed and believes that other female police officer recruits have been similarly denied reasonable accommodations for their injuries at the Academy, and subsequently forced to re-class into a different city assignment or given a Notice of Failed Probation under the false guise that the department could not continue to pay them as police officer recruits given the length of time of their injuries."
In her complaint, Ludlam says she is aware of at least two female officers who were forced out due to injuries as well as numerous male officers who were allowed to extend their training due to injuries.
Ludlam is seeking damages for emotional distress, loss of wages, loss of health care benefits, other additional damages as well as attorney's fees.
Comments