A Black California mayor filed two lawsuits against her city that compile two of three separate legal claims she made last year alleging racial and gender discrimination, invasion of privacy, and mismanagement of her retirement fund.
After the city of Rialto, California, rejected her claims, Mayor Deborah Robertson has taken steps to start civil proceedings. One of those related claims stems from the city’s response to the mass shooting in San Bernardino in 2015 that killed 14 people and injured nearly two dozen others.
Following the shooting, the city hired a security consultant to conduct a risk assessment at City Hall. Robertson alleged the city manager and city council members discriminated against her by not providing her with a special security door for active shooter situations despite giving her Latino colleague one.
In that assessment, the consultant never recommended the installation of security doors, but city officials ordered a door for Councilman Raphael Trujillo’s office that was installed in November 2020. Five months later, they installed a door on Robertson’s office.
In a claim Robertson filed last year, she alleged that “the City immediately installed a security door in one of my Caucasian male colleague’s office” right after the assessment was completed, while completely ignoring her personal safety concerns.
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