OLATHE, Kan. — An Olathe Public Schools employee says she was sexually harassed. The administrator she’s accusing still has a job, however, her lawyer says she is the one facing retaliation.
“It’s been extremely disturbing for her,” Mark Dugan said.
Dugan is a partner with Dugan Schlozman Attorneys at Law and represents the Olathe Public Schools employee who says she was harassed.
Dugan said over the last few months the 18 year employee’s life has been turned upside down. The woman filed a sexual harassment claim with the district against Rich Wilson, the director of curriculum and assessment for the district.
“Rather than make life better for her, rather than remove the conditions they offered her a demotion and later they offered her a severance. In conjunction with that they offered her to pay her to keep quiet about it essentially,” Dugan said.
The woman claims Wilson looked at her suggestively, made her uncomfortable on a number of occasions, and in one instance touched the inside of her thigh. That prompted her to file the claim against. Wilson.
“I think she was sexually harassed but in this instance the district’s more serious conduct was retaliating against her for filing a sexual harassment claim,” Dugan said.
After the Title VIII claim was filed with the district the woman said Wilson filed a wrongful harassment claim against her. The district then offered her a nearly $200,000 separation agreement and release.
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