Jovan Thomas, a former victim advocate at the DA’s office, was fired in January after he hit “reply all” and sent a sexually explicit email to his entire office—including District Attorney Brooke Jenkins. Seconds after the first email, Thomas sent a follow-up email attempting to explain the remark. “While texting back and forth with my fraternity brother I sent a very inappropriate email. The email was meant as a joke,” Thomas wrote back to the office. He also “sincerely apologize[d]” to his coworkers and said “please know this is not who I am as a person as I carry myself with respect and dignity especially.” Now, Thomas is suing Jenkins’ office for wrongful termination. In the lawsuit, first obtained by Courthouse News Service, Thomas’s lawyers argue that when he was fired on the same day the email was sent, he was laid off rather than terminated with cause. Sexual harassment in the workplace
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