SKOKIE, Ill. Feb 26, 2022 A Texas woman who says she was raped in her Skokie hotel room by a worker years ago has been awarded nearly $2 million this week. A Cook County jury sided with Karla Gress in the civil case, but criminal charges were never filed, even with DNA evidence. “The world has […]
New York NY Feb 20, 2022 The U.S. Marshals Service failed to compensate 10 lead court security officers for wages and paid time off they lost during the coronavirus pandemic, while granting such payments to other officers, the group alleges in a lawsuit filed Friday in New York federal court. The lead court security officers […]
Chicago IL Feb 10 2022 Carleeta Johnson wants justice for her mother, Bobbye Johnson. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, she claims that a lack of training led a security guard to fire a gun recklessly after a violent confrontation outside a Bronzeville liquor store. One of the bullets traveled four blocks and hit Johnson, a […]
San Mateo CA Feb 6, 2022 As Walgreens was shutting down drugstores in the Bay Area and across the country and struggling with a theft problem, it fired three Black security managers without giving them the severance payments offered to laid-off white security managers, a new lawsuit claims. Alameda County resident Marcellus Clark, 63, alleged in […]
Palm Beach FL Feb 5, 2022 A security company fired by the Palm Beach County school district in 2019 for failing to properly train dozens of would-be charter school cops will nonetheless collect $75,000 of the outstanding bill under a settlement approved Wednesday. The payment to Invictus Security in Boynton Beach ends a court battle launched […]
TORRANCE, CA Feb 3, 2022— A white security guard settled a lawsuit he filed against an upscale hotel in Rancho Palos Verdes, in which he alleged he was fired in 2020 for complaining about discrimination and racially charged remarks from Latino colleagues, including “I don’t like white people.” Craig Bruss’ Torrance Superior Court lawsuit […]
Detroit MI Jan 30, 2022 General Motors and two security companies must face a racial discrimination lawsuit by a Black security guard who claimed he was harassed and underpaid, with a Michigan federal judge ruling the companies can’t duck the litigation by arguing he should have filed a grievance under a labor contract. U.S. District Judge […]
Kansas City MO January 21, 2022 A former security guard at City Hall is suing Kansas City over alleged racial discrimination, saying Black guards are more harshly criticized and disciplined than their white counterparts. In a federal lawsuit, Roshanda Smith said her manager, who is not named as a defendant, “continually” held her and other Black […]
COLUMBIA SC Jan 21, 2021— A state appeals court has upheld that Richland County Sheriff’s deputies wrongfully arrested a security guard outside a Columbia nightclub almost 15 years ago. The case stemmed from a 2008 encounter where Richland County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a contracted private security guard for a club on Two Notch Road and […]
GARDENA CA Jan 8, 2022 A former security guard at Memorial Hospital of Gardena has filed a lawsuit against her former employer for intolerable working conditions after she was ordered to clean a malfunctioning freezer filled with decomposing dead bodies. She is seeking compensation for emotional trauma and adverse health consequences. “If someone in […]