She says she only found out she'd been let go when she called to ask about her job
A veteran school psychologist says the Los Angeles Unified School District secretly fired her after 23 years - and hid it for nearly two years.
The lawsuit, filed July 7, 2026 in federal court in Los Angeles, sets out allegations that map onto process points HR teams watch closely: how accommodation requests are handled, how leave is managed, and how a separation is documented and communicated.
The dispute started, according to the complaint, with a request for a religious exemption from the district's 2021 COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The filing says the district denied the request the same day she submitted it, without any interactive process - the individualized, back-and-forth discussion the law expects between an employer and an employee.
The complaint also alleges the outcome was set before any request was reviewed. It quotes a districtwide message to staff stating that "reasonable accommodations do not include permitting employees to continue working at a District facility without being fully vaccinated."
From there, the filing describes a series of actions taken while she was on approved medical leave for PTSD, which the complaint says followed her son's death: a disciplinary conference scheduled during that leave, a resignation form sent to her, her work laptop deactivated, and her medical insurance and a $350,000 life-insurance policy canceled without notice. She says the...
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