Jury awards $11 million in gender discrimination suit against State Police - The Boston Globe

Jury awards $11 million in gender discrimination suit against State Police - The Boston Globe

Major Kathryn Downey said she was retaliated against after she reported that another trooper allegedly had sex at a hotel while on duty and stored pornography on a computer hard drive left at work.

Mass. State Police major wins $11M gender bias verdict

A Suffolk Superior Court jury on Dec. 17 awarded the highest-ranking woman on the State Police $11 million on a discrimination claim that dates to her days as a trooper. Kathryn Downey, now a major, sued the State Police and fellow trooper Earl Johnson after a series of investigations stemming from her discovery in 2016 A Suffolk Superior Court jury awarded $11 million to a Massachusetts State Police major after finding gender discrimination and…