An ex-IT employee for Fulton County sued his former employer, alleging he experienced ethnic discrimination and then was scapegoated and fired for the 2024 cyberattack that he claims was caused by his negligent supervisor.

Omotade Adeniyi, a U.S. citizen from Nigeria, filed a federal lawsuit against Fulton County, where he was employed for nearly 14 years before he says he was unjustly terminated.

It was only in his last two years that his workplace treatment and environment began to change with the arrival of a newly hired supervisor, William Clemons.

According to his complaint cited by local news outlets, Clemons started making “repeated discriminatory remarks regarding his national origin and the ethnic composition” of the team he supervised in 2023.

The suit alleges that Clemons ca

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