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On Monday, three female fire dispatchers working for the Jefferson Parish East Bank Consolidated Fire Protection Bureau filed suit claiming an ongoing practice of gender discrimination and retaliation at the Jefferson Parish Fire Protection Bureau’s Emergency Communications Division.

The three women have a combined fifty-three years of employment at the Bureau. According to the complaint filed in New Orleans federal court, Communications Supervisor Robert Funk denied female employees at the Bureau training and equipment that was provided…