Sexual Harassment & Hostile Work Environment Complaint Against JJ Walsh Sent Directly To County Executive
Attorneys for Stacey Bailey filed a motion for sanctions to the US District Court last Friday, stating that the Fire & Rescue Department did not comply with a court order to supply all sexual harassment and hostile work environment complaints to the plaintiff. The motion contained a detailed hostile work environment and sexual harassment complaint against Deputy Fire Chief JJ Walsh, which was emailed directly to the County Executive on April 7, 2011. A follow up email was sent to the County Executive on April 20, 2011, asking him to investigate the details of the complaints. To our knowledge, the County Executive never responded to the complaint emails.
The complaint that was sent to the County Executive, contains a long list of alledged improper actions and statements made by Walsh. The complaints include making several vulgar statements about female firefighters, hostile and intimidating arguments with FRD employees, as well as a sexual affair Walsh is said to have had with the wife of a FRD Captain.
The motion also states that the FRD did not take any action on certain complaints, and were selective about investigating others. I should warn you - the graphic details of the complaints against DFC Walsh are disturbing.
The Big Eye would very much like for our readers to read the entire document, and post your thoughts on the complaint itself, as well as what you think should happen next.
To read the entire motion, as well as the complaints sent to the County Executive by email, click on the link below - you will have to wait 45 seconds before you can download the 14 page PDF. If you get a message that says the download is not available - click on your refresh button until it allows you to download.
***UPDATE*** The prior link would not work for some reason - try this link, and let me know if you have any problems downloading it:
http://www.2shared.com/document/aLYd2UDT/JJ_Walsh_Complaint.html
