Bailey Files Complaint Alleging Harassment Against County Prosecutor
WARSAW – The former director of Kosciusko County Community Corrections is alleging in a complaint that Prosecutor Dan Hampton created a hostile workplace prior to her departure in November.
Anna Bailey served as the director of Community Corrections for almost two years before she was escorted out of her office in the Kosciusko County Justice Building by police.
In an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint filed with the South Bend Human Rights Commission, Bailey alleges Hampton created a hostile work environment in hopes she would quit.
She also contends that police tried to exacerbate her PTSD when 14 officers surrounded her vehicle after she was escorted out from office on Nov. 19.
The complaint says Hampton does not like women in leadership positions, which led him to try to push her out.
She also contends Hampton worked to block a pay raise for her that had already been approved by county leaders in 2018. Unlike all other county employees who saw pay hikes at the beginning of the year, Bailey did not get her pay raise until June of 2019.
“Dan constantly heavily scrutinized my work and this behavior escalated to the point that I requested a meeting with the Indiana Attorney General on Oct. 29 of last year,” Bailey said in her complaint.
“I have reported the harassment to human resources, three judges, the county commissioner, county attorney and a board member,” the complaint read.
When she was escorted from her office on Nov. 19, 14 officers and an animal control officer surrounded her vehicle. “The respondent (Hampton) knows about the specifics of my disability and my need for a service dog. I feel there was an overwhelming and excessive show of pre-meditated effort to purposely exacerbate my disability,” the complaint said.
She resigned the following day, citing “excessive stress and intolerable working conditions.”
Bailey declined to discuss the complaint.
Hampton declined to discuss details but said the county is preparing a response that will be filed in the near future that will address all allegations.
Bailey is one of three facing criminal charges for wrongdoing over the operation of electronic monitoring program in the community corrections department.