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The decision to hire Marcella Fleming Reed of MFR Associates, who investigates workplace harassment and discrimination claims, comes days after four women within SPD filed a $5 million tort claim alleging sexual discrimination and harassment by Chief Adrian Diaz and other department leaders.

The investigation, spurred by claims of Johnson’s inappropriate workplace behavior by “multiple individuals” working in the Office of Financial Management and the Office of Equity, was conducted by MFR Law Group, of Mill Creek.

As a result of the SPS investigation conducted by the MFR Law Group PLLC, Hampson, who was elected in 2019, and board member Zachary DeWolf, who has since left the board because his term expired, were required to review the board policy that prohibited harassment, intimidation and bullying.

The two district employees, both of whom are women still working for Seattle Schools, “alleged an orchestrated campaign of harassment, intimidation, bullying based on race and gender in response to their work” on the anti-racism policy, according to the investigation by the MFR Law Group PLLC, a law firm focused on employment law and human resource services in the Pacific Northwest.

MFR submitted the report to Seattle Schools in early August.