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Nebraska State Patrol required 'sexually invasive' exams for female recruits, trooper's lawsuit says
Omaha World Herald ^ | Aug 2, 2017 | Paul Hammel

Posted on 08/03/2017 9:40:23 AM PDT by posterchild

LINCOLN — Female recruits for the Nebraska State Patrol were required to undergo “medically unnecessary and sexually invasive” medical examinations as part of their pre-employment evaluation, a state trooper alleged Tuesday in a federal lawsuit.

Trooper Brienne Splittgerber also alleged that leaders of the State Patrol, over almost three years, failed to adequately investigate the “outrageous” exams of female genitals done by a male Lincoln doctor, and then worked to cover up the matter.

Her lawsuit, filed by Omaha attorney Tom White, asks for unspecified damages for creating a hostile working environment for female recruits and causing emotional distress.

A spokesman for the State Patrol, reached late Tuesday afternoon, said the agency does not comment on lawsuits. But an email from a patrol lawyer, included as an exhibit in the lawsuit, said the exams were “a hernia check” required of both male and female recruits.

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To: bigbob
Can’t remember a physical where I didn’t have to turn my head and cough...

Well that's just nuts.
21 posted on 08/03/2017 10:19:52 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: lee martell

The child and father shouldn’t even be in the story. Much less a photo.


22 posted on 08/03/2017 10:20:13 AM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: NorthMountain

There are a fair number of ‘overzealous’ male doctors. Not sure about the female docs.


23 posted on 08/03/2017 10:22:59 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: posterchild
Hernia check?

Hmmm.

Was a (female) nurse present during this check?

24 posted on 08/03/2017 10:25:18 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: manc

she has been there for that long, and now sues!!!

Give me a break. She looks for an easy payout.


So we can assume from this that you didn’t really read the article.

She complained right after it happened. Since then the complaint has been going through ‘channels’.


Splittgerber, according to the lawsuit, grew “increasingly anxious” about the inaction by patrol superiors to her complaints in late 2014. In February 2017, she asked Rice about the status of the investigation.

She said she didn’t get a response until she informed him that she had retained an attorney.

“At that point, it became clear the plaintiff’s concerns were being dismissed and the events covered up,” the lawsuit stated.



25 posted on 08/03/2017 10:26:20 AM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: ladyjane

I’ve had female docs and PAs do my physicals ... I never got the impression they found it any more thrilling than I did.


26 posted on 08/03/2017 10:29:28 AM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: NorthMountain

The doctor grew suspicious when there wasn’t a nutsack to squeeze.


27 posted on 08/03/2017 10:29:39 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: NorthMountain; bigbob

Women don’t have testicles that descend and cause hernias. Women get abdominal or femoral hernias. Neither of those require examination of the genitalia.
A femoral hernia will appear as a bulge near the groin or thigh


28 posted on 08/03/2017 10:32:07 AM PDT by JayGalt (Let Trump Be Trump)
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To: Theoria; SkyPilot

Ah, did she bail on them? (guessing so because of other comments)

Hmmm, well look what other news they have!

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good gosh


29 posted on 08/03/2017 10:46:36 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ....)
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To: JayGalt
Fact, Proper examination... Note fully clothed.
30 posted on 08/03/2017 10:46:46 AM PDT by Openurmind
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To: posterchild

When I went to nursing school, the paperwork for the physical included a gynecological exam. I crossed it off and noted that those parts were never, ever going to be relevant to nursing work. Never heard a peep from the school.

Easier to do that when you’re having your own physician fill out the paperwork and you aren’t taken by surprise by a request to disrobe...

Women are much less likely to have an inguinal hernia than men, and a hernia exam would not require complete exposure in a woman, so that excuse ain’t gonna fly.


31 posted on 08/03/2017 10:59:15 AM PDT by heartwood (If you're looking for a </sarc tag>, you just saw it.)
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To: posterchild

Our Governor just fired the head of the State Patrol and other SP officials here for other abuses. I imagine this might have been on the list.

Seems they were applying some good ol’ boy politics to a lot of things and not investigating themselves the way they should have.

Rickets got involved and just canned several of them.

Too bad our State Patrol has rotted up so badly. It used to be a very clean organization.

I am pretty sure Rickets will get it cleaned up but there are some messes that will get aired in the mean time I am sure.


32 posted on 08/03/2017 11:08:47 AM PDT by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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To: posterchild

“Physically invasive” must have come from a FOCUS GROUP. If anyone has ever had a BASIC physical examination for insurance purposes - key man insurance - or military of personal healthcare knows that everything is checked. It may be embarrassing but hardly “invasive”.


33 posted on 08/03/2017 11:45:12 AM PDT by Dapper 26
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To: posterchild

Well, Doesn’t that Stink!


34 posted on 08/03/2017 12:04:45 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: Blue Jays
One of the trains never even departs the station because they are still at home packing their shyt.

I don't care who you are, that right there is funnnny!

35 posted on 08/03/2017 12:07:52 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: Terry Mross

Ozark was great. The club owner’s corvette license plate was the same too. Did you finish the series?


36 posted on 08/03/2017 12:15:02 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: posterchild

If we the people can be strip searched and fondled to fly on an airplane she can be strip search and fondled for a job as a cop.


37 posted on 08/03/2017 12:16:46 PM PDT by CodeToad (AA)
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To: posterchild

Yep... Every woman should have their prostate checked also.


38 posted on 08/03/2017 12:22:22 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: posterchild

They should be more concerned with other physical characteristics, like the ability to fight on a dark, lonely highway, the sorts of things women don’t normally excel in.


39 posted on 08/03/2017 12:22:39 PM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: NorthMountain

I’ve had no problem with female docs. I’ve had some - how should I say it - unusual experiences with a couple of male ones. And I have heard from girlfriends about their unusual experiences as well.


40 posted on 08/03/2017 12:25:26 PM PDT by ladyjane
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