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| Corrections Employee Intimidation Hearing |
| By sacbee.com |
| Published: 03/25/2010 |
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A manager for California's Prison Health Care Services receiver has been hit with a whistle-blower retaliation complaint by an employee who alleges that she was intimidated and threatened for cooperating with state auditors on improper contracting practices by the receiver's office. The complaint, filed last fall, was recently argued before a hearing officer of the State Personnel Board. A ruling is pending. Susan Lew, a contract manager who filed the complaint, said Director of Administrative Services Mitzi Higashidani retaliated after Lew disclosed information on a $26.7 million information technology contract signed without competitive bidding. "Prison Health Services created an environment that discourages Corrections' staff working both inside and outside of Prison Health Services from raising concerns about its contracting," says State Auditor Elaine M. Howle in a 2009 report. That, the report states, contributed to unlawful, noncompetitive contracts. Lew said that such practices continue, including hundreds of millions of dollars in medical and nursing contracts. Read More. |
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