Post by pavel on Feb 1, 2016 16:11:29 GMT -6
A former Chickasaw County employee has filed a federal lawsuit against the Board of Supervisors alleging he was fired because he sought the office of sheriff as an independent and not as a Democrat, and wasn’t the board’s preferred candidate for sheriff.
Lamon Griggs, a retired Mississippi Highway Patrol officer, said he was hired in 2000 by the chancery clerk as a grant writer for the county and also worked as a county bailiff and a solid waste officer.
Griggs said in the lawsuit that he became a candidate for sheriff of Chickasaw County in the November 2015 general election. He didn't win.
Unlike the majority of Mississippi, Chickasaw County, is mainly Democratic. Non-Democrats are rarely elected to county-wide offices in Chickasaw County, according to Griggs' lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi.
Read more: www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2016/02/01/lawsuit-employee-fired-running-independent/79634730/
Lamon Griggs, a retired Mississippi Highway Patrol officer, said he was hired in 2000 by the chancery clerk as a grant writer for the county and also worked as a county bailiff and a solid waste officer.
Griggs said in the lawsuit that he became a candidate for sheriff of Chickasaw County in the November 2015 general election. He didn't win.
Unlike the majority of Mississippi, Chickasaw County, is mainly Democratic. Non-Democrats are rarely elected to county-wide offices in Chickasaw County, according to Griggs' lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi.
Read more: www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2016/02/01/lawsuit-employee-fired-running-independent/79634730/