Southampton Town Female Officer Files Discrimination Lawsuit

A female Southampton Town police sergeant has filed a lawsuit earlier this month claiming that she has experienced ‘gender discrimination, sexual overtures and retaliation’ while working at the department, according to a report in Newsday.

Susan Ralph alleges that she began experience mistreatment when she began working at the department in 1994. She said that female officers were told not to fire their weapons, were prevented from ’preferred assignments’ and were not promoted beyond sergeant, according to Newsday.

She also claims that despite her filing state and federal charges and filing complaints to the town supervisor multiple times, the problem is still ongoing, according to Newsday. This is the second lawsuit in the past year alleging gender discrimination in the department for Southampton after Lisa Costa, the only female sergeant in the department, filed a similar lawsuit in April, according to the report.

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