CONN v. WESTERN PLACER UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Part-I

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Filed 7/20/10













CERTIFIED
FOR PARTIAL PUBLICATION*





IN THE COURT OF
APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

THIRD APPELLATE
DISTRICT

(Placer)












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CHRISTINA CONN, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. WESTERN PLACER UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants and Respondents.

C059754 (Super. Ct. Nos. SCV18938 & SCV20084)

APPEAL
from a judgment of the Superior Court
of Placer
County, Charles D. Wachob, Judge. Affirmed.

Stephanie
J. Finelli for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Jacobson,
Hansen, Najarian & McQuillan and Leith B. Hansen for
Defendants and Respondents.



The Reporting by
School Employees of Improper Governmental Activities Act (Act), a
whistle-blower act, (Ed. Code, §§ 44110-44114),[1]
in section 44113, makes school officials liable in damages for interfering with
the right of a school teacher to disclose evidence of improper governmental
activities to an administrator or school board.

Plaintiff,
Christina Conn, a second year probationary teacher, was denied tenure when she
was not reelected to a third year of employment.[2] She claims that her nonreelection was
intended to interfere with her right to disclose â€