ST. LOUIS — A 2023 complaint filed by an employee in the city's Personnel Department alleges former director Sonya Jenkins-Gray tried to recruit her in a "campaign" to get a top employee fired, saying they needed to "stick together as Black women" and offering to connect her with a "civil rights" attorney. When the employee refused, Jenkins-Gray, now a member of the board that controls the St. Louis Police Department, retaliated by disparaging her and denying her transfer requests and pay raises, the complaint alleges.

The complaint, obtained recently by the Post-Dispatch, was filed confidentially with the Missouri Commission on Human Rights. The employee declined to be interviewed and requested anonymity from the Post-Dispatch, saying she was worried about the impact on her job prospects

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