ST. LOUIS – A female police officer with St. Louis police department alleges she was subjected to gender discrimination.
Jatonya Clayborn Muldrow filed a complaint on Aug. 27 in the St. Louis Circuit Court against the city of St. Louis and Michael Deeba alleging that they violated the Missouri Human Rights Act.
According to the complaint, the plaintiff is a commissioned police officer and was assigned to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department's Intelligence Unit and was a task force officer with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
She alleges in June 2017, her supervisor informed her that Deeba, a captain and her previous supervisor, demanded that her FBI credentials be removed after she was transferred from the Intelligence Unit. She alleges a male employee that was also transferred out of the unit was permitted to keep his FBI credentials. She also alleges she faced other adverse employment actions.
The plaintiff holds the city of St. Louis and Deeba responsible because the defendants allegedly discriminated against her because of her gender and retaliated against her by subjecting her to adverse employment actions.
The plaintiff seeks damages of no less than $25,000, plus punitive damages, costs, attorney's fees and any further relief as the court deems just and proper. She is represented by Rick Barry and Megen I. Hoffman of Law Offices of Rick Barry PC in St. Louis.
St. Louis Circuit Court case number 1822-CC11085