Dispatcher Alleges Lawsuit Witnesses Intimidated

A Pennsylvania State Police dispatcher who filed a lawsuit last March alleging that co-workers were falsely filing complaints against her now has another complaint—her witnesses are being intimidated by the lawsuit’s defendants. April Waller sued in U.S. District Court claiming that now-retired Lt. Charles Depp believed—falsely, Waller says—that she reported him for having alcohol in his patrol vehicle. Depp then had two other dispatchers at the Uniontown state police comm center file complaints against Waller, the lawsuit alleges. In this latest motion filed with the court, Waller says she and three potential witnesses in her lawsuit are being harassed and intimidated. Waller’s motion says supervisors won’t allow the four dispatchers time off to attend lawsuit depositions, have altered their work schedules from days-only to a rotating evening-night schedule, gave them last choice for Christmas vacation time and have tapped Waller’s cellular phone without a warrant. The defendant’s attorney has denied the original allegations and that Waller or other dispatchers are now being intimidated. Read more about the situation here, and download (pdf) the lawsuit here.