School tech: Employer wrong to reprimand me over prayer talk
Toni Richardson, a special education technician, contends she was "interrogated" by school officials about the remark in which she intended to offer encouragement to a colleague who goes to her church.
"The school reprimanded me because my words, spoken privately to a colleague, involved religious content," she wrote in her complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Richardson is seeking to have the reprimand rescinded and for the school district to make clear to employees that there's nothing wrong with discussing their faith in private conversations, said her attorney Jeremy Dys.