“Title VII does not protect an employee where, as here, the employee has needlessly and gratuitously shared nude and possibly sexually explicit images of co-workers.”
Affirming a district court’s grant of summary judgment against the Title VII retaliation claims asserted by a former EMT against her employer, the Sixth Circuit determined that while Title VII protected at least some of what the employee said at a meeting with two new hires when discussing EMT culture, that protected conduct may not be used to seek shelter from a firing that was based on unprotected conduct. The court also noted that even if the images shared by the employee were publicly available online, that fact did not mean that her coworkers had to be subjected to seeing or hearing about them while on the job (Crisp v. Scioto Ambulance District, No. 25-3885 (6th Cir. July 17, 2026)).
The employee in this case first met her alleged sexual harasser when the two were employed as EMTs at the Portsmouth Ambulance Department. According to the employee, the coworker would make inappropriate comments about her breasts and would make obscene comments to any female employee who gave him attention.
Naked photos. At some point, another EMT showed the employee and others nude photos of the coworker during a workplace discussion. The photos came from profiles the coworker and his wife allegedly posted on a website for people seeking sexual relationships outside of their marriages.
Assault. Some time later, the...
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