GDOT, State Contractor Accused Of ‘Sexually Hostile Work Environment’

Stephanie Crater is suing the Georgia Department of Transportation and state construction contractor C.W. Matthews in federal court for maintaining a “sexually hostile work environment.” Her alleged harasser is also included in the lawsuit.

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To Stephanie Crater, it was a trip with her wife to the movies about two years ago that led to months of harassment and threats at her job with the Georgia Department of Transportation.

At the theater, Crater and her wife ran into a worker with state construction contractor C.W. Matthews.

“I heard someone calling my name, and I turned around, and it was him with his two sons,” Crater said in an interview. “That was on a Friday, but that Monday when I got to work, he was there, and he started asking me questions about my personal life. That’s when it started.”