The Wilco Sun reports today that Georgetown has agreed to reinstate officer Hoskins-Brown to the Georgetown police force while paying all litigation costs and back pay.
"According to the settlement reached and signed July 14, the city will pay her $42,624.03 in back pay to compensate the difference between her interim earnings and what her salary would have been. The city will pay$9,358.72 into her retirement system, and pay $12,023.19 for vacation hours and unused personal leave. Combined with the previous lawyer fees and $280 in additional lawyer fees, the city owes Ms. Hoskins-Brown a grand sum of $108,985.94."
The city should be grateful that officer Hoskins-Brown did not seek punitive damages for the emotional distress and disruption to her life over the past three years that this unjustified termination has caused. To the casual observer it would seem that officer Hoskins-Brown did suffer unwarranted stress and angst.
Through April 1, 2016, the city paid outside counsel $82,136.63 to litigate this case. Since additional court actions occurred after that date, additional litigation costs were incurred but are unknown at this time. The city also declined to identify the cost in city staff time that has been devoted to this case over the last three years.
In any event, this case has cost the city well over $200,000 and in one form or another. It is time to move on and learn from this experience so that it not repeated in the future.
Officer Hoskins-Brown still has a Federal Violation of her Civil Rights lawsuit pending in Federal Court. There is a court date of Sept 11, 2017 scheduled. This is where she could be paid for the unwarranted stress and angst that she suffered. How about damages to her reputation? Much like a bell that cannot be unrung, so is the Chief's accusations of lying. Officer Hoskins-Brown was cleared by an arbitrator of lying. If the City is smart they will make a reasonable offer to settle this lawsuit and this will be over once and for all.
ReplyDeleteKVUE reported: "Now she plans to suit up again soon.
ReplyDeleteBrown still has a Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit filed, that’s scheduled to go to court September 2017. Brown’s family tells KVUE they hope to win and clear her name once and for all."
I was not here when this happened. Why is there a lawsuit? What was done to her?
ReplyDeleteI was not here when this happened. Why is there a lawsuit? What was done to her?
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