Sheriff's Office, County Facing Sexual Harrassment Lawsuits
Two former female deputies claim they were subjected to sexual harassment while on the job.
Two former Kendall County jail guards are suing the Sheriff's Department claiming sexual harassment, the Aurora Beacon News reported.
The two former employees, Amber Christoffel Slaughter and Nichole Porus, filed a federal lawsuit against the county and the Sheriff’s Department. The women claimed they were forced to change in a co-ed locker room in front of male co-workers. According to the lawsuit they claimed the men frequently commented on their undergarments and general appearance. The two women reported the comments to their supervisors who reportedly did nothing, the lawsuit said.
The Beacon News reported Slaughter said she was forced to resign. The paper said in the lawsuit Porus claims co-workers made false claims about her insubordination and she was fired in June 2009.
The lawsuit was filed in November. Slaughter’s case is scheduled to be in court Jan. 14 and Porus is slated to be in court on Jan. 25.
In 2010 the Kendall County Sheriff's Department settled a sexual harrassmeent lawsuit for $188,000.
Alex Keown
4:10 pm on Friday, December 28, 2012
Comment was deleted for wild implication of conditions of employment that violate our standards.
Tim
4:25 pm on Friday, December 28, 2012
It's too bad that Kendall County doesn't have any such standards.
Alex Keown
4:26 pm on Friday, December 28, 2012
Tim, I didn't mean to remove your comment, it was the other one, I apologize that it was removed by mistake
Tim
5:17 pm on Friday, December 28, 2012
I know. My comment was attached to Todd Milliron's comment, and got removed when his was erased.
Which is funny, because Todd is exactly the type of 'problem' that he himself is complaining about.
Amy Miller Jackson
4:27 pm on Friday, December 28, 2012
I was wondering how long that comment would stay up
Alex Keown
4:28 pm on Friday, December 28, 2012
Tim, I asked my boss if there's a way to restore your comment and i'm waiting.for him to respond. Again, I apologize for the error on my part.
Alex Keown
4:45 pm on Friday, December 28, 2012
Tim, looks like my mistake cannot be unmade. Once a comment is deleted, my boss said it stays deleted. Sorry about that.
Hugo
5:10 pm on Friday, December 28, 2012
The world will be deprived of Tim's wisdom? Oh...oh god no.
Tim
5:18 pm on Friday, December 28, 2012
Look around Kendall County. They have been deprived of wisdom long before I came around.
lisa hestand
11:01 am on Saturday, December 29, 2012
I have a feeling this is an even worse problem than reported here. I've heard rumors of female prisoners being bothered as well. I hope the officers involved get what they deserve.
Amy Miller Jackson
11:37 am on Saturday, December 29, 2012
Lisa, if its a rumor you just made it worse. If indeed this did happen its horrible. I don't understand why nobody can wait until all the truth comes out before making such comments.
Tim
1:30 pm on Saturday, December 29, 2012
You don't understand why?
The people that have been paying attention have seen the Kendall County Sheriff office pay out hundreds of thousands of dollars in 2010 for the same charges.
They have seen the 'punishment' given to the sheriff deputy who pulled a loaded weapon on an unarmed pregnant woman in a grocery store.
They have seen state law enforcement arrest a Yorkville officer for stealing drugs, FROM THE POLICE.
Now they are seeing more sexual charges filed against the same county Sheriff department.
People don't need to 'wait for the truth' when the current leadership of the department has destroyed any reputation it may have once had. It's a pretty sad state of affairs when it is the norm that people think law enforcement in the town is regularly committing crimes. That doesn't 'just happen'.
R. Metzger
2:15 pm on Saturday, December 29, 2012
As jaded and cynical as Tim is, I'm surprised he refuses to consider the possibility that someone might actually lie in an attempt to get money. That may not be the case here, but it certainly is within the scope of human nature and real world experience.
I'm not sure how I would be able to disprove an allegation of inappropriately touching someone if it they said I did it, and no one else was present. I hope something like that never happens to me. Or to Tim.
Oswegosmarts
4:49 pm on Saturday, December 29, 2012
2010 the Kendall County Sheriff's Department settled a sexual harrassmeent lawsuit for $188,000. Seems like a pattern to me. Tim I have to agree with you on this one
Justice is not blind
7:09 pm on Saturday, December 29, 2012
Tim seems like a guy that knows how things really work, so I suspect if he were to be honest with us (and himself) he would admit that the deck is significantly stacked against the employer in any harassment case.
Plaintiff's can bleed you dry in legal fees, and it becomes a cost/benefit decision. Do I settle for $100,000 or $200,000 even though I don't think I did anything wrong, or do I go all the way to trial, get a verdict in my favor, but it cost me $500,000?
Tim
9:03 pm on Saturday, December 29, 2012
I can draw reasonable conclusions from the available evidence. This is not a courtroom.
I can see that nowhere else in the entire state does this pattern of lawsuits, combined with video footage of officers pulling weapons on pregnant women, exist. To even think that is acceptable behavior shows there is a problem with training at the very least.
I can see the reputation the department has in the past with this behavior.
I can see that they have taken absolutely zero reforms within the department.
With more time, I could give you a litany of other severe problems.
Like it or not, the residents of the county are going to have to start to pay closer attention to the law enforcement in the county. Because something is severely wrong with it.
While it is certainly possible this is just a deceitful act, it is certainly not the probable outcome based on the departments existing behavior.
Amy Miller Jackson
4:54 pm on Saturday, December 29, 2012
Tim I was talking about the rumor of the female inmates. I forgot that you have to be extremely specific on this site or you will be taken out of context. The norm that "people" think cops are breaking the law on a regular basis? How many "people" in this county feel that way about the police dept?
Richard R
7:50 pm on Saturday, December 29, 2012
It would appear that this is the way of working in the these conditions. And we live in the same mentally of cave man ways. If the county hired female officers and only had one lockeroom, then under federal law I think they needed to provide these woman a place to disrobe and change into there uniforms. So why was this not provided for them. And to the woman who decided to finally file a law-suit over this. I have to ask why did you want so long to do so? maybe you should have brought it to the Labor Union you have. If this was a unaddressed issue you brought to your supervisors, and they did nothing,then you should have filed this while you were working there. Or at least made the public aware that your bosses were doing nothing to address said concerns.
I'm not sticking up for the cave man ways of the Kendall County Sheriffs office, we all seen how they work with the way they handled this.
http://oswego.patch.com/articles/off-duty-sheriff-s-officer-shoved-at-walmart
GJ
9:30 pm on Saturday, December 29, 2012
It's stuff like this that gives police a bad wrap. Unfortunately, it happens all too often. There are bad seeds in any profession. It's the society we live in. Hopefully the Kendall County organization gets what they deserve. Bacon.
Richard H
9:42 pm on Saturday, December 29, 2012
Lets not forget the wonderful example the city of yorkville set when they hired a chief of police with a previous DUI arrest. What a wonderful example this is to our youth. How embarrasing.....
terry
10:25 pm on Saturday, December 29, 2012
can someone explain why our states attorneys office didnt try to recover 188000 from the chief deputy his actions (the sexual harrasment settlement) were im sure considered outside the scope of his emplyment, which would be recoverable civilly against this culprit
Tired
9:52 am on Sunday, December 30, 2012
I've been out once or twice at Suzi s where a Kendall county sheriffs police man was harassing all the women I was with and sadly went out to the parking lot with a woman returning a litte while later only to leave with a girl young enough to be his daughter. We've seen this same guy at the Kendall pub and Blackstone doing the same thing... He's nasty and thinks he's Gods gift to women.. Did I mention he's married? Shows the caliper of people who are here to serve and protect us! BTW he gives his business card out too! Duh?!!!
Fire Evildoers
4:14 pm on Sunday, December 30, 2012
I hope they are able to identify this person, and fire him based on your anonymous and unsubstantiated accusation.
Yorkvillian
12:22 pm on Sunday, December 30, 2012
Just FYI there is a women's locker room at the Sheriff's office on the second floor. So the question is why didn't they just use that one like all the other females do ?
Fire Evildoers
4:19 pm on Sunday, December 30, 2012
That is a very good question. But let's not bring common sense into this. After all, it's a lot more fun just to assume people are guilty of harassment. It's the American way.
Tim
7:16 pm on Sunday, December 30, 2012
Fire,
The police department regularly releases a 'list' of arrests to publications every week, but never bothers to release a list of those who are later found not guilty. Making the accusations against average people, is more important than guilt or innocence to them.
They created this situation, so they can live with the consequences of it.
Richard R
7:55 pm on Sunday, December 30, 2012
Ugh I forgot to unchecked the e-mail me updates from this story. Now I have 20 unncessary e-mails now.
Fred Barnes
8:43 pm on Sunday, December 30, 2012
No, the public did. They demand to know, and the media will sue if the information is not released to them so they can provide it to a voyeuristic public. The same media could demand the State's Attorney, or Circuit Clerk provide court adjudications so they could be published, but they don't. It's not the police who don't care if someone's reputation was wrongly maligned, it's John Q. Public.
Fred Barnes
8:53 pm on Sunday, December 30, 2012
Nope, the public created this situation, and the media will sue if the police don't release the information for them to feed to a voyeuristic public. The media could also demand the State's Attorney's Office, or the Circuit Clerk provide them with court adjudications to publish, but they don't because no one cares if someone was found not guilty, they just want the allegations. It's not the police that created this mess, it's John Q. Public. Oh, and by the way, Illinois law requires police provide arrest and booking files to the media.
Jeri
4:17 pm on Sunday, December 30, 2012
Hello,
I do not get it. OK we end up with a castle for the village on a hill, We have offices that show the ability to cut expenses but they get a budget increase???? We have known problems in this department but we still have Randall and the attitude?
I guess more people with their head in the sand vote than those that get it. This site is available to everyone under cover of who knows ...various names of nobody...I have followed that suit because of harassment potential. This situation will bring it on also.
Transgendered
6:54 pm on Sunday, December 30, 2012
I am a woman trapped in a mans body. I have undressed in front of myself many times. Thanks to this lawsuit, and the Patch reporting on it, I realize the horrible ways in which I have victimized myself.
Richard R
7:58 pm on Sunday, December 30, 2012
Meh
I forgot to uncheck the email me updates from this article. Now I have 20 useless e-mails
shuttle2
2:01 pm on Sunday, January 20, 2013
In response to some of the comments: my daughter was one of the former employees involved in this lawsuit. First, these lawsuits -- the two mentioned above as well as the one that has already been settled -- were all initiated around the same time. It took until now for these two lawsuits to be officially "filed"; no one is trying to "cash in" on a successful settlement. Second, my daughter clearly told me at the time about these and other incidents (that you will probably never hear about) involving her and her female co-workers at the jail. After she realized that this was an ongoing thing, my daughter began keeping detailed records documenting the incidents as they occurred. When she and her co-workers brought these matters to the attention of their superiors, they found themselves out of a job. We tend to think that situations like this no longer occur in our society, but they do.
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