A Miami-Dade County employee has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the county and two department leaders of retaliation, discrimination, and violating his constitutional rights after he raised concerns about workplace governance.
David Arnold Gray, a business architect in the Miami-Dade Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), filed the suit in December 2025 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The defendants include Miami-Dade County, HCD Director Nathan Kogon, and Assistant Director Christina Salinas-Cotter. Gray alleges that after reporting discriminatory treatment and misuse of authority, he was stripped of responsibilities and subjected to a retaliatory, hostile work environment.
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Gray has worked for Miami-Dade County since 2015, serving in various departments before joining HCD as a real estate analyst. He was promoted to business architect on Oct. 3, 2024, and describes the role as strategic, overseeing enterprise-level data reporting and compliance frameworks supporting federally funded housing programs.
“I was tasked with identifying system inefficiencies, in showing regulatory compliance, coordinating cross divisions, and advising leadership on how policy decisions translate into real-world program delivery,” he said…