By Tyler Silvy, Greeley Tribune
Five more female Weld County employees have complained about commissioner Sean Conway’s behavior toward them, according to a petition filed by the county in Weld District Court. They are in addition to a single previous complaint by a woman who reported she was subject to a profanity-laced tirade by Conway.
Weld County attorneys on Tuesday filed a motion with Weld District Court seeking the courtap opinion on the release of records requested by The Greeley Tribune.
The records relate to a harassment complaint against Conway, as well as a subsequent investigation and report by Mountain States Employer Council. County commissioners, including Conway, discussed that report during executive session Monday morning, and The Tribune requested the report Monday afternoon.
But itap likely that report covers more than just the one official harassment complaint filed Nov. 28, 2016, by a former employee who said Conway went on a profanity-laced tirade during a phone call that morning. The woman who filed the report quit soon after.
In the petition, Weld County lays out a timeline, including a call by human resources director Patricia Russell to Mountain States seeking the organization’s investigative services to look into the complaint. An investigator asked Russell whether there were other employees who expressed similar complaints.
“Ms. Russell responded that she was aware of at least five other women who had complained about Commissioner Conway’s actions and demeanor towards them, but had not wished to file written complaints with Ms. Russell for fear of retaliation,” according to court records.
Russell is later paraphrased as saying Conway’s actions created a hostile work environment for the women interviewed, and the petition cites county code related to intimidation, ridicule and insult.
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