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 prosp

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