A former employee of the Montana Department of Corrections said Monday she lost her job due to retaliation after several women came forward with sexual harassment allegations against the agencyâs director.
Adrianne Cotton, the agencyâs former government relations officer, said during sometimes tearful testimony with the Office of Administrative Hearings that she had spoken with the departmentâs human resources division after DOC Director Reginald Michael made what she considered to be inappropriate comments as they traveled together on a business trip from Three Forks to Billings in September 2017.
âIt made me feel very cheap and I felt I was not very valuable to him,â she said, adding she went into her hotel room and called her husband, who told her to document everything.