NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Holly Friedman says she was fired from the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office Thursday morning after posting about a possible Orleans Parish property tax increase on social media last week.
Friedman, who worked as the District Attorney’s director of litigation support, said human resources fired her, effective immediately, shortly after going into work. District Attorney Jason Williams’ Office wouldn’t confirm Friedman’s firing, saying it doesn’t comment on personnel matters.
“(I) wasn’t expecting it,” Friedman said in an interview Thursday. “I’ve never had any single anything in my employment (record).”
‘It needs to be transparent’
Friedman says she was fired after she posted to Facebook about a possible property tax increase in Orleans Parish last week. In the post, she raised transparency concerns, saying she found news about the possible millage roll forward on the second to last slide of a presentation at a city’s Revenue Estimating Conference meeting…