By Jennifer Graham
UK and Stephanie Bastin, former assistant police chief of UK Police, have reached a settlement regarding a 2-year-old lawsuit.
Bastin was seeking compensation for damages that occurred as a result of her termination. She also asked for punitive damages to be awarded to her, as well as money to cover legal costs.
Details of the settlement are confidential, according to UK spokeswoman Kathy Johnson.
The lawsuit was filed July 27, 2006, in the Fayette Circuit Court against the UK Board of Trustees and Ken Clevidence, then the associate vice president of campus services.
In the suit, Bastin accused Clevidence of ordering her to “coerce and/or compel†an officer in the UK Police Department to drop a citation she had issued to a UK administrator.
Bastin, currently police chief for Kentucky State University, could not be reached for comment. Bastin’s lawyer, Robert Abell, could not be reached for comment as well.
The suit said for Bastin to coerce an officer to drop the citation would go against several state laws.
Clevidence has since retired from the university.
Ernie Yanarella, a Board of Trustees member since June 2006, said he didn’t want to give an opinion on the case against the board. Closure for the 2-year-old suit wasn’t discussed among trustees at Tuesday’s board meeting, he said.
“The settlement was not a subject brought up during today’s committee meetings, luncheon or board meeting,†Yanarella said.
I urge the Kernel to pursue this story so that we can see what the settlement was. With this being a State funded school that is run with State Tax $, it should be a case for open records as to the settlement, I pay taxes and I want to know what kind of deal was made!
Man UK is just f*cked up
UK Parking&Transportation is just so greedy:
1) Last year I got several citations that should not be given
2) And when I tried to get money back from the parking permit that I did not use (this is 2 days after school started) they said no because the refund policy only applies to yearlong permit and I purchased semester permit
They will do anything to suck your money out of your pocket