Among other things, the police department released information concerning her employment in response to a public records request from The Washington Post.
A former officer of the Boston Police Department who reported her alleged rape by another police officer failed to show that the city retaliated against her in violation of Title VII when it provided, in response to requests from prospective employers containing her own authorizations, employment records containing information about her disciplinary record, or when it released information concerning her employment in response to a request from The Washington Post, the First Circuit affirmed. The record would not allow a reasonable jury to conclude that BPD departed from standard policy in handling authorized requests from her prospective employers, much less to infer a but-for retaliatory motive, and the information BPD provided to the newspaper was in response to a public records request that the department was legally obligated to fulfill (Doe v. City of Boston, No. 25-1134 (1st Cir. Jan. 27, 2026)).
Boston police officer. The plaintiff joined the Boston Police Department (BPD) in 2007, and in September 2009, she was accepted into the Mobile Operations Unit (MOP), a specialized unit within BPD's SWAT team operations.
Report of rape by coworker. Around September 23, 2009, she reported to BPD officials that, on a trip to a Connecticut shooting competition the previous month, she had been raped by another officer in the...
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