Cabinet for Health and Family Services (shown) and Sunrise Children’s Service have not come to an agreement on a 21-year-old case, say Sunrise’s counsel. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (KT) — A long-standing case between Sunrise Children’s Service, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and a former Sunrise employee is far from finished, according to an attorney for the children’s services agency. “The case originally was both an employment discrimination case by the former employee and a First Amendment case against the state by taxpayers,” said Sunrise attorney John Sheller. The discrimination case was dismissed in 2001, he said. Alicia Pedreira vs. Sunrise Children’s Services and Cabinet for Health and Family Services is an ongoing case in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. In a press conference on May 10, Gov. Andy Beshear said he had been advised the case had been settled. Sunrise is in negotiations with the state to sign an annual contract, but talks have been slow. Sheller says three times the state has tried to bring in the ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State to bring a settlment in the case over the past 20 years, but Sunrise has […]
