Ex-Tahoe CCC employee wins retaliation lawsuit
By Andy Furillo, Sacramento Bee
A woman who spoke up for female California Conservation Corps members who were the targets of alleged sexual transgressions won a retaliation lawsuit Tuesday from the state agency that had fired her.
Margaret Grodzik won a $159,000 award from a Sacramento Superior Court jury, which also found that the CCC failed to reasonably accommodate the 66-year-old woman, who suffered from diabetes and a heart condition.
“Heroes come in all sizes and packages,” Grodzik’s lawyer, Jill P. Telfer, said after the verdict. “This one was a grandmother. She was tenacious. She went everywhere for help and exhausted every single avenue. Her last resort was the courtroom.”
Makes you wonder how many other “illegal” activities are going on there. Nice going CCC, if you can’t solve your problems just fire the reporting employee. Sounds oddly familiar. Time to end this wasteful and useless program.