Georgia County Settles for $1.3 Million Race Bias Suit by Four White Managers

ATLANTA—DeKalb County, Ga., April 18 announced that it had settled an employment discrimination lawsuit brought by four former county employees for $1.3 million, ending more than six years of litigation in the case (Bryant v. Jones).

The four sued Vernon Jones, the former chief executive officer of DeKalb County, his executive assistant Richard Stogner, and county parks director Marilyn Boyd Drew in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, accusing them of firing white managers to make the county workforce more reflective of the demographics of the county, which is majority black.

The plaintiffs were ...