Trooper files sex-bias claim
Copter pilot says she was harassed
By Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff, 1/20/2004
The first and only female helicopter pilot in the Massachusetts State Police has filed a discrimination complaint with the state alleging that after she rejected her supervisor's unwanted sexual advances, he retaliated by spreading false rumors and asking the Federal Aviation Administration to revoke her license.
The complaint that Trooper Jody A. Reilly filed with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination this month is the 30th gender and sexual bias claim against the State Police since 1995. Three complaints were settled and three dismissed for lack of probable cause.
Reilly is featured in State Police recruitment posters and at one point was the only woman on the cover of the agency's recruitment brochure. Inside that brochure,