Kentucky

From On the Beat in the Bluegrass is the following story about Whistleblower suit.  Click on heading for entire story.

Jail employee sues Fayette government

By Steve Lannen on whistleblower

By Steve Lannen

slannen@herald-leader.com

A Lexington-Fayette jail employee says she is being retaliated against because she brought concerns about a courts employee with a criminal record to the attention of police and prosecutors.

In a lawsuit filed Thursday against Lexington?s Urban County Government in Fayette Circuit Court, Doris Zirbes states she was placed on administrative leave earlier this week and is the subject of a jail internal affairs investigation.

She states that jail officials violated the whistle blower statute because the discipline against her is retaliation for informing police and prosecutors that a state Administrative Office of the Courts pre-trial officer, who works in the same part of the jail as Zirbes, has a lengthy criminal record and regularly has access to law enforcement databases.