Overview
- Roxana Kennedy filed the lawsuit Tuesday in San Diego Superior Court, naming the City of Chula Vista, City Manager Tiffany Allen and four councilmembers.
- The complaint alleges a plan to remove her and install someone younger and of a different ethnicity, citing privacy violations, defamation and other employment-law abuses.
- Kennedy, on medical leave for months, says the city cut her access to email, personnel files and pay stubs and opened two investigations that pressed her for interviews.
- She received a Right-to-Sue letter from the state Civil Rights Department this week and filed without stating a damages amount.
- The city issues a categorical denial and says it will fight the case, and Councilmember Cesar Fernandez calls the accusations against him “bogus.”