Marion County worker alleges sexual discrimination in public works department

A Marion County employee says she was denied a promotion and degraded based on her gender.

Jamie Namitz, a county worker for 16 years, took to the board of commissioners meeting Wednesday to report being sexually harassed during a job interview.

Namitz said a department manager named Don Newell discriminated against her after applying to become an operations road supervisor for the county in August.

It was near the end of the interview that “discrimination…