Here’s an audio/visual update to a story we covered back in 2023. A director for Civil Rights Equality and Opportunity (CREO) in Kansas CIty was followed by a city-hired private investigator.
Reason: She reported a company for not abiding by the city’s rules and distributing sub-contracts to underrepresented groups.
The company that ignored the city’s laws? Meta, parent company of your favorite apps, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and Instagram.
The company was bringing $800 million to the city to develop a data center and other operations to expand its offerings.
Brian Platt, city manager of Kansas City, engaged in a smear campaign to push Dorch out of her role. When he could find nothing, he hired a private investigator with taxpayer dollars to follow/intimidate her.
Ultimately Dorch resigned and later discovered the person she felt was following her wasn’t a random stalker, but rather a hired operative to dig into her life.
One year later, Dorch brought a lawsuit against Kansas City and its city manager Brian Platt. Platt is also the subject of another discrimination law suit, this time brought by a Hispanic man, Chris Hernandez. Platt urged Hernandez, who was the city’s top communications employee at the time, to lie to the media about details of city projects. He consistently refused and pushed back on Platt’s lack of integrity.
Platt demoted Hernandez. Hernandez brought suit. His case is still pending and is slated for a jury trial in mid-February 2025. (Link to pdf of Hernandez lawsuit)
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Andrea Dorch thought she was simply doing her job when she reported inconsistencies in a development’s awards to subcontractors. Little did she know that only months later she would be out of work and under surveillance by her former employer.
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