ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – A former Fulton County IT employee claims in a lawsuit that he was discriminated against and unfairly blamed for a cyberattack that crippled the county’s systems early last year.
Omotade Adeniyi, a U.S. citizen originally from Nigeria, filed the lawsuit against Fulton County on Monday.
Adeniyi claims that in late 2023, his newly hired supervisor started making “repeated discriminatory remarks regarding his national origin and the ethnic composition” of the team he managed, including calling him the N-word…