BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has reached a settlement with Brevard County in a racial discrimination case involving a former tourism office employee.The county has agreed to pay Deidre Jackson $150,000 after she was terminated from the county’s Space Coast Office of Tourism in 2015.
Jackson is to receive $100,000 in back pay via untaxed county paychecks and $50,000 in compensatory damages, according to the settlement.The settlement stems from a complaint Jackson filed with the EEOC in November 2015, alleging she was fired from her position as the tourism office’s communications specialist because she is Black.EEOC officials found reasonable cause Jackson was unlawfully fired under Title.