Legal Opinion
Rice v. Departments of Corrections
Colorado Court of Appeals
Decided November 28, 1997No. 96CA1007PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Judge KAPELKE.
In this employment termination action, complainant, J. Frank Rice, appeals the order of the State Personnel Board (Board) upholding his termination from the Department of Corrections (DOC) for sexual harassment. We affirm.
Before his termination, complainant was employed by the DOC as a warden. In September 1994, a female DOC employee alleged that complainant had sexually harassed her. The executive director of DOC instructed the DOC’s inspector general to conduct an investigation into the matter. Following his investigation, the inspector general filed a lengthy report…
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