The lawsuit is seeking $109,000 in lost wages, an additional $1M for future lost wages/pension benefits and $500,000 for other compensatory damages
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SALEM, Ore. — A former Oregon Department of Corrections assistant director has filed a $1.6 million whistleblower lawsuit, the Oregon Captial Chronicle reports.
Nathaline Frener, former assistant director of the agency’s Correctional Services Division, alleges she faced retaliation and, as a result, was fired when she reported concerns about her superiors taking illegal actions in multiple instances.
Frener's lawsuit describes what she alleges was a "turbulent" and "backstabbing environment" at the agency during her employment from 2019 to 2022. The legal action was taken in Marion County Circuit Court and alleges that on three occasions agency leaders attempted to disregard the law. In each of these instances, the lawsuit implicates Colette Peters, the former agency director who now holds the position of director at the Federal Bureau of Prisons. It is worth noting that Peters is not named as a defendant in this particular lawsuit.
According to Frener, in November 2021, Peters directed the agency's IT department to search employee emails in an attempt to uncover the source of the leaked memo from then-Governor Kate Brown about inmate sentence commutations, which was published by The Oregonian/OregonLive. Frener claims that she informed her superiors that the memo was considered a public record and the Department...
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