BATON ROUGE – BREC Commissioners were served with a summons in a civil action lawsuit from an employee who had their termination overturned.
Tonya Gordon Smith previously said she was fired because she refused what she called improper payment orders. Smith, who worked at BREC, said she refused to process payments that violated department policies, including using “current funds to pay old invoices.”
BREC’s Human Resource Complaint Resolution Committee’s recommended Smith be reinstated in November 2025, saying her actions were correct…