White Bird Clinic has agreed to a settlement with a former CAHOOTS worker, after the employee claimed she’d been retaliated against for reporting a coworker’s sexual misconduct.

White Bird agreed to pay the plaintiff $600,000, according to her lawyer. The settlement amount wasn’t disclosed in publicly available court documents. White Bird did not confirm the amount when asked by KLCC.

In a federal lawsuit filed in January, Megan Plett accused White Bird of retaliation and discrimination while she was employed at the nonprofit between 2020 and 2023.

Plett claimed a co-worker had sexually and physically assaulted her in mid-2021. She also said he told her he wanted to have sex with an underage CAHOOTS client.

According to Plett, when she reported these issues to co-workers and Human Rela

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