WASHINGTON: "The former interim director of the District’s Office of Unified Communications call center said she was let go from the position after calling attention to problems with the OUC, and she is suing to get her job back. Among the people against whom Cleo Subido filed suit is Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb. In the complaint, filed in Superior Court of the District of Columbia’s Civil Division, Subido claims the District “retaliated against her after she disclosed irregularities, violations of laws and regulations, gross mismanagement, waste, fraud, and abuse and threats to the health and safety of the public” with regards to the OUC’s operations.

The paperwork outlines Subido’s experience and provides specific examples of issues that she says reflects the problems at OUC which she refused to ignore, including poor dispatch times which, in some cases, Subido suggests were, at minimum, factors in deadly outcomes to emergency situations. In filing the lawsuit, Subido asked that the court find that the city violated the D.C. Whistleblower Protection Act and that it be ordered to make sure OUC complies with national guidelines and responds appropriately to the needs of people who live in D.C."

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