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• Clayton County Board of Commissioners settles wrongful termination complaint filed by ex-juvenile court employee for $825,000.
• Gerald Bostock, a former child welfare services coordinator, alleged his decision to join and promote an openly gay softball league led to his termination.
• Bostock's employer leveraged an audit as 'a pretext for discrimination' to support his firing, per the amended plaintiff complaint.

The Clayton County Board of Commissioners has approved an $825,000 settlement for a former Georgia juvenile court employee who alleged he’d been fired for being gay.

Nine years after his termination, plaintiff counsel for the former court employee applaud the settlement as progress toward a continued ”fight for equality.”

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