Two Seattle School Board members violated a board policy against harassing, intimidating and bullying staff members last year when they were working on an anti-racism policy with two Black district employees, an outside investigation has found.
The events that took place between the Seattle Public Schools employees and board members Chandra Hampson and Zachary DeWolf happened in August and September 2020 during meetings and discussions about a draft of the district’s anti-racism policy. The School Board has not yet voted on the policy.
The two district employees, both of whom are women still working for Seattle Schools, “alleged an orchestrated campaign of harassment, intimidation, bullying based on race and gender in response to their work” on the anti-racism policy, according to the investigation by the MFR Law Group PLLC, a law firm focused on employment law and human resource services in the Pacific Northwest.
MFR submitted the report to Seattle Schools in early August. The employees’ names were redacted.
Although the report didn’t find “clear evidence” that Hampson and DeWolf discriminated against the two staffers because of their race or gender, it did conclude that both board members violated board policy 5207, which prohibits harassment, intimidation and bullying.
During a board meeting Sept. 9, the board voted to take action based on the findings of the investigation.
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