Ex-PRC worker wins whistle-blower case
By Staci Matlock, The Santa Fe New Mexican | |
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Bonal's attorney, longtime family friend
"It's been a long battle," said another attorney for Bonal,
The jurors sat through five days of lengthy testimony that dissected the difference between a "hit" and a "visit" to a website, graphic examples of porn sites allegedly accessed by state employees and a detailed timeline of events that culminated in Bonal's dismissal from his job in
Zamora said he thinks the pages of evidence from a website tracking program helped convince the jury to side with Bonal.
Attorneys for the PRC denied any of the employees named in the lawsuit had been visiting porn sites or improperly surfing the Internet during work. Additionally, they said a computer program the PRC had installed to filter websites was blocking access to legitimate sites that employees needed to complete their job duties. They said Bonal was fired
A day after his firing from the PRC -- on
Bonal, the son of a former
In his testimony, Bonal claimed he alerted upper management, including then
"Instead of a pat on the back, he gets a kick in the rear," Thomson said.
Bonal's attorneys claimed Montoya had staff investigate their client's background a day later. The attorneys said the staff had tried to accuse Bonal of lying about a felony on his job application two years earlier. According to Bonal's lawsuit, however, he had pleaded to charges in the late 1990s, but had completed his probation and was not found guilty of a felony under
Bonal's lawsuit named the PRC and
Bonal's lawsuit sought
This was the second jury award to a plaintiff against the PRC under the Whistleblower Protection Act. On
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