In December, we blogged about a lawsuit we filed on behalf of Andre Cooley, a corrections officer with the Forrest County Sheriff's Department in Mississippi who alleged that he was fired after his superiors learned he is gay. Yesterday, we announced a settlement in the case! Andre will be reinstated to his job, and the sheriff's department will update its nondiscrimination policy to make explicit that the department does not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. The settlement also includes an undisclosed monetary payment.
Today, the ACLU and the ACLU of Mississippi filed suit on behalf of Andre Cooley, a correctional officer in the Forrest County Sheriff's Department in Mississippi, who was fired the day after his superiors discovered that he is gay.
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