A former Wallingford police officer has settled a discrimination claim against the town’s police department, which refused to give her a light duty assignment after she became pregnant last year.
The settlement announcement on Friday, May 3, came a little more than a month after the Wallingford Town Council voted to authorize a settlement rather than endure potentially costly litigation. The final deal which will give former Officer Annie Balcastro $20,000 in back pay was touted by the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut and the law firm of Outten and Golden, which also worked on the case, as a reaffirmation of the rights of pregnant women in the workforce.
