Government Accountability Project Files First Amendment Complaint on Behalf of Whistleblower Nurse Dawn Wooten
WASHINGTON—On December 29, 2022, Dawn Wooten, through her attorneys at the Government Accountability Project in Washington, DC and Jack Batson of Augusta, GA, filed a complaint in federal district court alleging that LaSalle Corporation and related entities violated her First Amendment rights of speech and association by discriminating against her for communicating with the press, Congress, and nonprofit advocacy groups about serious wrongdoing she discovered in 2020 while working as a nurse at the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) in Georgia.
In her complaint, Ms. Wooten alleges that she was subjected to an unlawful reprimand and demotion to non-shift, part-time service in July 2020 for raising concerns about medical misconduct she discovered while working as a nurse at ICDC. In September 2020, after never having been assigned a single hour of part-time work, Ms. Wooten filed whistleblower complaints with the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General, which remain pending resolution. After filing these complaints, she also publicly spoke out to the press, to Congress, and to public interest advocacy organizations as a whistleblower about her concerns, which included LaSalle’s failures to protect immigrants and workers from the spread of COVID-19 and that immigrant women in detention were undergoing invasive gynecological procedures without...
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