Monetary remedies for judiciary workers in misconduct disputes and an anonymous nationwide survey for employees are among recommendations in a new report by a working group on judiciary misconduct.
Sent to employees internally on Wednesday, the report includes nine new proposed steps that seek to build on changes the judiciary adopted following its own reckoning with the #MeToo movement.
“Now that we have all of these new structures in place—new employees, new paths of resolution, new awareness among our employees—we want to measure and see how is it going, what else can we do to improve?” Julie A. Robinson, a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas and working group member, said in an interview.
The judiciary faces pressure to improve a system that some employees and lawmakers say is still broken. Current and former judiciary employees, for example, said in a 2021 court filing that the current process for misconduct “disincentivizes reporting, entrenches misconduct, and leaves judiciary employees without basic employment protections or due process.”
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