Conn v. Western Placer Unified School District
California Court of Appeal
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1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BLEASE, Acting P. J.
The Reporting by School Employees of Improper Governmental Activities Act (Act), a whistleblower act (Ed. Code, §§ 44110-44114), 1 in section 44113, makes school officials liable in damages for interfering with the right of a schoolteacher to disclose evidence of improper governmental activities to an administrator or school board.
Plaintiff, Christina Conn, a second-year probationary teacher, was denied tenure when she was not reelected to a third year of employment. 2 She claims that her nonreelection was intended to interfere with her right to disclose “that…
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