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By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org
Department of Safety Commissioner Robert Quinn did not retaliate against the former employee who alerted supervisors to his reported improper use of the state’s Gun Line system to help a friend, according to a new motion filed with the New Hampshire Department of Labor.
Quinn wants former Department of Safety Tiffany Foss’s whistleblower complaint dismissed, in part, claiming that she resigned her position as proof she was not pushed out.
Department of Safety Attorney Allison Greenstein, writing the motion to dismiss, said Foss’s complaint is short on details.
“(Foss) had failed to allege any particular facts of circumstances which would constitute harassment, abuse, intimidation, or discrimination under (the law,)” Greenstein wrote.
Foss, who now works for another state agency, has said she still fears Quinn’s reach. According to the complaint she filed in December, Foss left after realizing Quinn was going to make her life with the agency too difficult to continue after she raised concerns about the improper check.
“Life for me at work thereafter was extremely more difficult than it already had been,” Foss wrote in her complaint. “(Quinn) used everyone around him to work against me … Even though I am at another agency now, I am still fearful of his power and reach.”
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