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promoting Mr. Leveston, they brought Wilcox (a white male) in as Director. Mr. Leveston has always been the second or third finalist but has never been able to get past that round. Donny applied for a Consumer Resources Deanship, but another individual was hired instead. 2014 – 2018– Four years in a row— he has requested to take his veterans to DC, and his request has been repeatedly denied. Yet other student groups are granted permission for field trips. In 2018 and 2019, several faculty members called the HCC Police on him for looking “suspicious” even though he was professionally attired. 169.
Conrad Levy - Race Discrimination/Harassment/Pay Disparity – Conrad Levy is a
police officer with the HCC police department. He wrote a letter to Sgt. Bailey and contacted Sgt. Anderson so that Officer Levy could be admitted to the rifle team. However, he was denied because he did not qualify as he needed to take the TCOLE shotgun class. He was not allowed to select the dates for his TCOLE class training, whereas other Hispanic officers were permitted to select the specific dates they wanted to attend. On February 27, 2020, he requested a vacation day and was denied on the same day. He reached out to Officer Antonio Coto (Hispanic) to clarify why he kept getting his vacation days rejected. Coto's response was, you cannot choose your alternative holidays. Later that same day, he went to Pace and noticed that another non-Black officer put in for his alternative holiday and it was approved. On August 19, 2020, Sgt. Johnson called Mr. Levy into the office to discuss his facial hair. As a Black individual, Mr. Levy suffers from certain skin conditions that make shaving painful and causes issues with his skin. The next day Mr. Levy contacted his primary care physician to make an appointment. He visited his Primary Care Provider on August 26, 2020, and upon leaving was given a note to give to his employer identifying his skin condition. Mr. Levy gave the doctor's note to his supervisor, Lt. Lance Side. A week later, Captain Boxie scheduled an HR meeting on September 2, 2020 at 4:00 P.M. HCC's HR department stated
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