Public Servant Not Properly Informed

“[Embattled mayor Bob] Filner had demanded that the City of San Diego pay his legal fees to defend against the sexual harassment lawsuit filed by his former Communications Director Irene McCormack. But the argument then was that as a public employee, the City had to cover the costs of defending him from things he did in the course of his job duties. The City Council said in response, no fondling your employees is not one of your job duties. Pay your own bills. But now Filner and his lawyer are pursuing a new and additional line of argument — namely, that the City is partly responsible for the alleged harassment because the City did not provide Filner with adequate sexual harassment awareness training.”