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University Police Officer Files Religious Discrimination Complaint With EEOC

By Howard M. Friedman

Today's Baltimore Sun reports on an EEOC complaint that has been filed by a Towson University Police Force officer claiming religious discrimination. John David Brown, a convert to Orthodox Judaism, refused to work on his Sabbath from sundown Friday to Sundown Saturday. Brown claims that the University has backed off a settlement reached in 2006 and fired him two years ago rather than accommodate his religious beliefs. The University says Brown failed to show up seven times for work on the Sabbath and Jewish holidays on which the force was too thinly staffed to accommodate his request for time off. The University's disciplinary
board says Brown failed to seek voluntary exchange of days with other officers.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on July 24, 2010 (boomark / email).