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Santa Paula Library Settles Wrongful-Termination SuitFormer Blanchard Community Library administrative assistant Cynthia Chamberlain will receive a $30,000 settlement in an agreement reached January 5, ending a 16-month legal battle with the Santa Paula, California, library. In return, she will stop pursuing other remedies, including a sexual harassment complaint filed with the state. The library board claimed that Chamberlain was fired in October 1997 after a series of bad performance appraisals and that she retaliated by charging that Library Director Dan Robles was using library computers to download sexually explicit materials from the Internet. Robles was docked 5% from his annual pay as punishment but the Ventura County District Attorney's Office declined to file charges against him. According to the January 9 Ventura County Star, neither side has admitted liability or guilt, but both sides were satisfied with the settlement. Officials said defending itself had cost the library about $50,000. Posted January 18, 1999. |
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