San Francisco will pay $750,000 to a former city employee who says she was wrongly fired after she complained that her boss, the director of the city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, likely threw out a human skull.
San Francisco supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve the settlement, resolving a lawsuit filed by Sonia Kominek-Adachi, a former autopsy technician, in 2024.
Kominek-Adachi discovered the missing skull while completing an inventory of body parts in 2023, according to a complaint filed in San Francisco Superior Court. The office was required to keep the skull on hand until the identity of the body could be determined…