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年龄歧视！55岁，老吗？对Citrus Heights警方提起诉讼！
（SACBEE）Sandy Richards, 57, former support services manager at Citrus Heights Police department, speaks in Loomis on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020, about being fired from the department. She has filed a lawsuit alleging age discrimination. BY ALIE SKOWRONSKI
57岁的桑迪·理查兹曾是Citrus Heights警察局的服务经理，于2020年10月29日星期四在卢米斯谈到了自己被警察局开除的事情。她已经提起了年龄歧视的诉讼。
Sandy Richards spent 30 years in law enforcement, working her way up from being a Yolo County 911 dispatcher to running the civilian side of the Citrus Heights Police Department, where she had worked since 2006.
桑迪·理查兹(Sandy Richards)在执法部门工作了30年，从约洛县(Yolo County)的911调度员一路晋升为柑橘岗(Citrus Heights)警察局的文职人员，她从2006年开始就在那里工作。
“I bleed blue,” Richards said. “I loved being a steward of the taxpayer’s money, being fiscally responsible.
“我流着蓝色的血，”理查兹说。“我喜欢管理纳税人的钱，对财政负责。
“I was doing a good job.”
“我做得很好。”
But Richards is 57, and that was a problem for Citrus Heights, according to an age discrimination lawsuit filed in federal court in Sacramento this week that accuses Citrus Heights officials of manufacturing a reason to fire her after she refused to retire.
但理查兹已经57岁了，这对Citrus Heights来说是个问题，根据本周在萨克拉门托联邦法院提起的年龄歧视诉讼，指控Citrus Heights的官员在她拒绝退休后制造了一个解雇她的理由。
The lawsuit names Chief Ron Lawrence, former chief and current City Manager Christopher Boyd and Richards’ direct supervisor, Assistant Chief Gina Anderson. It accuses the department of ginning up a phony internal affairs investigation that led to her being escorted out of police headquarters and ultimately fired.
诉讼对象包括首席执行官罗恩·劳伦斯(Ron Lawrence)、前首席兼现任曼城主教练克里斯托弗·博伊德(Christopher Boyd)以及理查兹的直接上司助理首席执行官吉娜·安德森(Gina Anderson)。司法部指控司法部策划了一场虚假的内部事务调查，导致她被押送出警察总部，并最终被解雇。
The reason? Her age, according to the lawsuit.
原因吗?根据诉讼，她的年龄。
“Richards turned 55 years of age in February 2018,” according to the lawsuit, which was filed by Sacramento attorney Johnny Griffin III. “At the beginning of 2018, Chief of Police Lawrence began talking to Richards about retiring and training her successors before her retirement.
“2018年2月，理查兹就年满55岁了，”萨克拉门托律师约翰尼·格里芬三世(Johnny Griffin III)提起的诉讼称。2018年初，警长劳伦斯开始与理查兹谈论退休的事情，并在她退休前培训她的继任者。
“Lawrence raised these subjects even though Richards never expressed to him her desire to retire. Richards did not want to retire at age 55. Nevertheless, Lawrence persisted in talking about Richards’ retirement and would frequently bring up the topic himself and talked about Richards’ retirement with other Police Department personnel.
尽管理查兹从未向劳伦斯表达过她想退休的愿望，但劳伦斯还是提出了这些问题。理查兹不想在55岁时退休。然而，劳伦斯却坚持谈论理查兹的退休，并且经常自己提起这个话题，也经常和警察局的其他人员谈论理查兹的退休。
“Lawrence persisted in talking about Richards’ retirement even though her exceptional job performance continued after age 55 and continued until her eventual termination.”
“劳伦斯一直在谈论理查兹的退休，尽管她在55岁之后的出色工作表现一直持续到她最终被解雇。”
Citrus Heights police referred questions about the lawsuit to City Hall, where a spokeswoman declined to comment.
Citrus Heights警方将有关诉讼的问题转给了市政厅，市政厅的一位女发言人拒绝置评。
But Richards, in an interview Thursday with The Sacramento Bee, said her ouster from a career she loved has left her “devastated.”
但理查兹在周四接受萨克拉门托蜜蜂报采访时表示，离开自己热爱的职业生涯让她“伤心至极”。
“I was unceremoniously walked out of the police department ...,” she said. “I have bad nightmares about it, full-on emotional trauma.
“我被毫不客气地送出了警察局……,”她说。“我经常做噩梦，完全是精神创伤。
“I’ve never had anything like this happen.”
“我从来没有遇到过这样的事情。”
In her former job as support services manager, Richards oversaw the department’s dispatchers, records department, dozens of volunteers, radio and communications services and building maintenance for the suburban Sacramento department.
理查兹以前是后勤服务经理，她负责部门的调度员、记录部门、数十名志愿者、无线电和通讯服务，以及郊区萨克拉门托部门的建筑维护。
“I’m a worker bee, I love to work,” she said. “I love to keep busy, I love to be a problem solver. That’s why I was good with my job. I was a problem solver, I could solve anything.”
“我是一只工蜂，我热爱工作，”她说。“我喜欢让自己忙碌起来，我喜欢成为一个问题解决者。这就是为什么我很擅长我的工作。我是一个问题解决者，我能解决任何问题。”
And, she says, her age is not a problem.
她说，她的年龄不是问题。
“I could run circles around most people,” Richards said. “I would still be working there.
“我可以绕着大多数人转，”理查兹说。“我还会在那里工作。
“I loved what I did.”
“我热爱我所做的事情。”
SHE WOULDN’T RETIRE, SO ‘HARASSMENT AND HOSTILITY’ BEGAN, LAWSUIT SAYS
她不肯退休，因此“骚扰和敌意”开始了
But at the start of 2018, Lawrence began talking to her about retiring, the lawsuit says, and once it became evident she did not plan to retire, “Lawrence began a campaign of harassment and hostility” toward her and manufactured “bogus workplace violations” to force her out.
但诉状称，2018年初，劳伦斯开始与她谈论退休的事，当她明确表示不打算退休时，“劳伦斯开始对她进行骚扰和敌意”，并制造“虚假的工作场所违规行为”，迫使她离职。
On June 21, 2019, she was placed on administrative leave and escorted out of the building without anyone giving her a reason for her removal, the suit says.
该诉讼称，2019年6月21日，她被行政休假，并被护送出大楼，没有人给她解职的理由。
The next day, Boyd, the city manager and former chief, returned her phone call and she “protested her termination,” the suit says.
第二天，城市经理和前主管博伊德回了她的电话，她“抗议解雇她，”
The department began an internal affairs probe and in September 2019 “cited examples of misconduct” that Richards “vehemently disagreed with” and considered a pretext for age discrimination, the lawsuit says.
该诉讼称，司法部开始了一项内部事务调查，并于2019年9月“引用了不当行为的例子”，而理查兹“强烈反对”，并认为这是年龄歧视的借口。
The department ordered a psychological exam, the lawsuit says, a requirement “imposed without justification because Richards did not display any objective signs that her psychological fitness was an issue.”
诉讼称，该部门下令进行心理检查，这一要求“没有任何正当理由，因为理查兹没有表现出任何客观迹象表明她的心理健康存在问题。”
On April 8, Richards was fired based on the city’s findings of “serious misconduct” and “harassment and discrimination,” the suit says.
诉状称，4月8日，理查兹被解雇，理由是发现他“严重不当行为”以及“骚扰和歧视”。
Richards says the she “absolutely” disagrees with such findings, but said she cannot comment on specifics of the allegations because she expects the information to come out as the lawsuit progresses.
理查兹表示，她“绝对”不同意这样的调查结果，但表示她不能对指控的细节发表评论，因为她希望随着诉讼的进展，信息会出来。
Since she was walked out of the police building, she said “I just stayed home in silence” for months.
她说，自从她被带出警察大楼后，几个月里“我就静静地呆在家里”。
In June, she filed a claim against the city, which was rejected two weeks later, the suit says, and she proceeded to lodge complaints with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing.
今年6月，她向市政府提起诉讼，但两周后被驳回。她随后向美国平等就业机会委员会(Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)和加州公平就业和住房部(Department of Fair Employment and Housing)提出了申诉。
Both agencies issued her “right to sue” letters, so she sued, seeking compensatory, punitive and other damages.
两家机构都向她发出了“起诉权”函，于是她提起了诉讼，要求赔偿、惩罚性赔偿和其他损害。
But, she says, she wants something else out of the lawsuit.
但是，她说，她想从诉讼中得到别的东西。
“I don’t want this to happen to anybody else,” Richards said. “Being a civilian manager is really, really hard. Being a female civilian manager is even harder.
“我不希望这种事发生在任何人身上，”理查兹说。“做一名文职经理真的、真的很难。成为一名女性文职经理就更难了。
“And I worked really hard to make it work and to take care of people. I mean, that’s what I do. Support services. That’s what you do, support everybody ...
“我非常努力地工作，照顾人们。我的意思是，这就是我的工作。支持服务。这就是你要做的，支持每一个人……
“This is devastating to me, just absolutely devastating. I struggle with it every day.”
“这对我来说是毁灭性的，绝对是毁灭性的。我每天都在和它斗争。”
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