Christine Blauvelt This is Me

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1. 1. NYCLU: Suffolk County police department discriminates against pregnant officers, NYCLU and ACLU argue -- Plaintiffs' biographies

   www.nyclu.org/lochren_suffolk_ - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/3/2006   Last Visited: 8/12/2007

   Christine Blauvelt
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   Christine Blauvelt Plaintiff Christine Blauvelt is thirty-nine years-old and lives in St. James, New York. She is the mother of two children and is married to a New York City police sergeant. Officer Blauvelt holds a bachelor's degree in business management from SUNY Plattsburg. She has been a police officer with Suffolk County for thirteen years.
   
   Christine Blauvelt During her first pregnancy in 1999, Officer Blauvelt informed her lieutenant of her pregnancy and requested a limited duty assignment. The lieutenant granted Officer Blauvelt a desk position where she responded to walk-in civilian complaints and (daily paperwork). Officer Blauvelt worked throughout her pregnancy, until just a few days before her delivery date. After her pregnancy, Officer Blauvelt returned to work in her patrol car.
   
   In between Officer Blauvelt's first and second pregnancies, Suffolk County Police Department implemented the new, discriminatory limited duty policy. In December of 2001, when she was four months pregnant, Officer Blauvelt requested limited duty from the same supervising lieutenant who granted her limited duty pregnancy request in 1999. This time, the lieutenant denied Officer Blauvelt's request for limited duty and ordered her to write a request for time off from work due to her pregnancy. Officer Blauvelt was forced home from December 20, 2001 until May 30, 2002, when her second child was born, purportedly because of the new policy. She was forced to use her saved sick and vacation days for this time when she was ready and willing to work.
   
   During the period between December, 2001 and May, 2002, when Officer Blauvelt was forced home, her lieutenant made an exception to the new limited duty policy for a male patrol officer with an off-the-job illness.

2. 2. www.nyclu.org

   www.nyclu.org/lochren_suffolk_ - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/14/2006   Last Visited: 3/6/2007

   Over a week of testimony that began on June 5, officers Christine Blauvelt, Sarah MacDermott, Kelly Mennella, Miriam Riera, Patricia O'Brien and Sandra Lochren recalled being forced to use their accrued sick and vacation days -- and, in some cases, to go without pay -- when they were still willing and able to work.