Officers file gender discrimination suit

September 17, 2008

Three Austin police supervisors have filed suit against the city claiming that they were discriminated against because they are women and were subjected to a hostile work environment.

Sgts. Linda Ponder and Mary Hesalroad and Lt. Deborah Sawyer filed the lawsuits last week in state District Court. They accuse the city of violating the state’s labor codes and seek unspecified damages.

Ponder declined to comment. Sawyer and Hesalroad did not return phone messages.
The officers are being represented by San Antonio lawyer Mark Anthony Sanchez.

“The Austin Police Department has been systematically Tasering the civil rights of women in the upper echelons of the Police Department,” Sanchez said. “You are talking about three highly experienced, colorfully decorated officers with the Austin Police Department. They have held, and continue to hold, positions of leadership.”

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