Current and Former Employees Allege Sexual, Racial Harassment in Lawsuit Against Alabama State

A lawsuit filed by two former and one current female employees of Alabama State University accuse the university of condoning sexual and racial harassment from a female supervisor. The details of the suit have even reached the highest levels of state government, with elected officials taking sides and lobbing accusations of their own.

The federal court suit contends that a female supervisor subjected one current and two former university employees to a wide variety of racial and sexual harassment, ranging from verbal harassment to inappropriate touching, and that ASU officials not only did little to correct the situation but retaliated against the employees who reported it.

But Knight, who is the executive vice president and chief operating officer at ASU, said it is political season and accused former university board member Joe Reed and the Alabama Education Association of using the lawsuit to fight progress at the university.

“There are people who served on the board in the past who do not like progress and are basically committed to fund any lawyers that want to have a lawsuit against Alabama State University,” (State Representative and Special Assistant to the President at ASU John) Knight said. “That is AEA and Joe Reed.”

This is another ugly chapter in the ongoing feud between ASU and Joe Reed, and it doesn’t seem that either side will stop until one side commits to silence, one way or another.

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