Employees are encouraged to report suspected illegal activity to appropriate School District administrators, or the Board of Education. The Board of Education will not tolerate any form of reprisal, retaliation, or discrimination against:
- Any employee, or applicant for employment, because he/she opposed any practice that he/she reasonably believed to be made unlawful by federal or state laws prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and expression, height, weight, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, pregnancy, disability or veteran status,
- Any employee, or applicant for employment, because he/she filed a charge, testified, assisted or participated, in any manner, in an investigation, proceeding or hearing under federal or state laws prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and expression, height, weight, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, pregnancy, disability or veteran status or because he/she reported a suspected violation of such laws according to this policy, or
- Any employee or applicant because he/she reported, or was about to report, a suspected violation of any federal, state or local law or regulation to a public body (unless the employee knew that the report was false) or because he/she was requested by a public body to participate in an investigation, hearing or inquiry held by that public body or a court.
An employee or applicant for employment who believes that he/she has suffered reprisal, retaliation, or discrimination in violation of this policy shall report the incident(s) to the Administrator in Charge of Personnel and Employee Relations. The Board of Education guarantees that no employee or applicant for employment who makes such a report will suffer any form of reprisal, retaliation, or discrimination for making the report.
The Board of Education considers violations of this policy to be a major offense that will result in disciplinary action against the offender, regardless of the offender’s position within the School District.
