Labor/Employment
May 10, 2013
LA votes to settle 25-year legal battle with gay police officer
The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to approve a $600,000 settlement with an openly gay police officer who claimed he was forced out due to his sexual orientation.
By Laura Hautala
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to approve a $600,000 settlement with an openly gay police officer who claimed he was forced out due to his sexual orientation.
The settlement would end a 25-year legal battle between retired Los Angeles Police Sergeant Mitchell Grobeson and the LAPD.
A 1988 lawsuit had been settled in 1993, but Grobeson found the LAPD unwilling to implement the departmental changes it ...
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