Clarification
The print verision of this story said the Public Interest Commissioner "released" the report on Mary Lynne Campbell. Commissioner spokesperson Amanda Clements-Harvey clarifies that the commissioner did not issue the report publicly on its website, as the word "released" might imply; instead, it sent the report to Sturgeon Public, who sent it to school staff. This story has been updated to reflect this information.
A former Sturgeon Public Schools superintendent created a “culture of fear” so severe that it provoked panic attacks tears, and vomiting in her staff, the province’s public interest commissioner has found.
The office of the Alberta Public Interest Commissioner sent a report Dec. 28, 2022, to Sturgeon Public Schools on a disclosure of wrongdoing under the Public Interest Disclosure (Whistleblower Protection) Act relating to to the district's former superintendent, Mary Lynne Campbell. The school board shared the report with Sturgeon Public staff on Jan. 16, 2023.
The commissioner is an independent office of the provincial legislature which investigates allegations of wrongdoing in the public service under the Whistleblower Protection Act.
Campbell was superintendent for Sturgeon Public from 2018 until her retirement in June 2022.
The commissioner reported that they received an allegation May 17, 2021, that Campbell had grossly mismanaged employees by a pattern of behaviour indicative of a cultural problem of bullying, harassment, or intimidation,...
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