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Commissioners order full back pay and reinstatement for county animal welfare officer after grievance hearing
Summary
After public testimony from the employee and counsel, commissioners voted to reinstate animal welfare officer Brianna Montes with full back pay and benefits and to remove disciplinary marks from her personnel file.
El Paso County Commissioners Court on May 12 voted to make animal welfare officer Brianna Montes whole after a personnel grievance and administrative review. Following executive-session deliberations and public testimony by Montes and her attorney, the court moved to reinstate her, grant full back pay and restore benefits.
Attorney Robert Godet, who represents Montes, described a sequence of events the employee says began with sexual harassment complaints against a…
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