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District employee alleges HR retaliation and urges board to factor it into superintendent evaluation
Summary
At a Stockton Unified School District board meeting, a district employee accused leadership of tolerating retaliation, bullying and racism and said employees are filing civil‑rights complaints; she asked the board to include her concerns in Superintendent Dr. Rodriguez’s evaluation.
A Stockton Unified School District employee told the school board tonight that repeated complaints about workplace retaliation, bullying and racism have gone unaddressed and asked the trustees to consider those failures in Superintendent Dr. Rodriguez’s performance review.
"There has been no meaningful resolution or accountability," the employee said, adding that multiple staff members who reported mistreatment have feared retaliation and that the assistant superintendent of human resources "has permission to condone workplace abuse." She said district employees are filing complaints with civil‑rights authorities and that trustees should "expect an investigation soon." The speaker asked that her remarks be included in Dr. Rodriguez’s evaluation.
The comment came during the public‑comment period after Board President Kenita Stevens read the board’s public‑meeting protocols, which limit speakers to three minutes and direct staff and trustees to follow Brown Act rules. The employee told the board she and colleagues had brought concerns to district leadership without resolution and that some documents from personnel files had been shared in ways she said were harmful to her employment record.
The board did not take public action on the remarks during the meeting. Trustees later recessed to a closed session for the superintendent’s performance evaluation under Government Code Section 54957; staff later reported there was "no reportable action." The board did not provide a public response to the employee’s specific allegations during the meeting.
The employee’s comment referenced filings with a civil‑rights authority; the transcript rendered the office name imprecisely. The board’s announcement that the evaluation would be facilitated by Robert "Bob" Cain of the California School Boards Association was read during the meeting.
Next steps: the board moved the meeting into closed session to review the superintendent’s evaluation; the public comment does not on its face alter the immediate status of any personnel actions reported by the district.
