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| Sex discrimination charge aimed at DOC |
| By Rocky Mountain News |
| Published: 02/23/2004 |
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The woman who ran Colorado's nationally recognized sex offender program for 19 years has resigned, accusing the state of sex discrimination. Peggy Heil, 46, was removed in August as chief of the sex offender treatment and monitoring program in the Colorado Department of Corrections. She said she was reassigned to lesser positions in two other DOC offices for which she had no training. She quit last Tuesday. "I wish that I had not been put in this position," Heil's resignation letter said. "Not only do DOC's actions negatively affect my reputation, they deny me the ability to practice in the area in which I have become an expert," she wrote. "Thus, because it is evident that DOC is pushing me out and the conditions here have become completely intolerable, I have no choice but to resign." DOC spokeswoman Alison Morgan said the department does not comment on personnel matters or litigation. In August, however, Morgan said Heil had been reassigned because of budget cuts. But Heil continued to receive the same $81,100 annual salary she got as head of the sex offender program, her lawyer, Paula Greisen, said last Wednesday. Heil filed a complaint last Tuesday with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. It accuses her boss, L.D. Hay, of reassigning her because she is female and as revenge because she turned down some of his funding requests when he ran a sex offender work program under her supervision. Heil's EEOC complaint alleges that Hay has a history of discriminating against women. |
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