San Francisco is poised to pay $750,000 to settle a wrongful termination lawsuit brought by a former employee of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner who says a top official threw away an unidentified human skull. An ordinance approving the payout is scheduled to be introduced to the Board of Supervisors this week, then sent to the Government Audit and Oversight Committee before a final vote in the coming weeks. The suit, filed in 2024 by former staffer Sonia Kominek‑Adachi, alleges she was retaliated against and ultimately fired after sounding the alarm about the missing skull.
What the lawsuit says
Kominek‑Adachi’s complaint claims that OCME Executive Director David Serrano Sewell tossed the skull while clearing the viewing room, then…..