BATON ROUGE – Several BREC commissioners and employees were served with civil summonses at a public commission meeting on Thursday, July 23.
The summons came from the daughter of former BREC employee Tonya Gordon Smith, who filed a lawsuit alleging employment discrimination and retaliation.
Smith said she was fired in September 2025 after refusing to process payments in a purchase order that she claimed violated company policy. In a hearing, BREC’s human resources department ruled in her favor and reinstated her job in November…