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| Six former employees sue sheriff, county |
| By Verde Valley Online |
| Published: 12/27/2004 |
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Six former Yavapai County (Ariz.) Sheriff's Office employees have filed a civil lawsuit the Sheriff's Office, Sheriff G.C. "Buck" Buchanan and Yavapai County alleging wrongful termination of their employment. Attorney Robert Cook, who filed the suit on behalf of the employees, alleges that each of them "were subject to unfair labor practices, wrongful terminations, unconstitutional takings and process, defamation of character and disparate classification and treatment." The lawsuit also alleges that the plaintiffs - Allison Detholoff, Patricia Breidenbaugh, Barbara Palmer, Lynn Sorce, Barbara Vincent and Ruth Sauers - became detention support specialists for the Sheriff's Office after responding to an advertisement in the newspaper and online, which notified the public that the agency was seeking full-time employees. Upon termination of each one of them, the suit alleges, it became clear "that they had been subjected to bad faith labor practices in violation of (the Arizona Statute) and in effect were subjected by defendants and each of them to a bait-and-switch scheme solely for the purpose of satisfying increased staffing requirements by the U.S. Department of Justice." Buchanan said he has been served with the lawsuit. "Out of the 100 or more employees that we hired during opening of the new jail, I believe that all of six of these individuals were detention support specialists," he said. "I believe that they were all terminated for failing to meet minimum probation standards." Buchanan declined to comment further on this case. |
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