Ex-COO Sues San Diego for Contract Breach and Discrimination

Before moving halfway across the country to take over as chief operating officer for the city of San Diego, Eric Dargan signed a contract promising him three months’ notice if Mayor Todd Gloria planned to terminate the agreement.

The Texas transplant also was to collect three months’ pay in severance, along with benefits.

But a new lawsuit by the former COO says that when Gloria closed out of the chief operating officer position in February and personally assumed those responsibilities, he failed to meet the terms of that contract.

Read more at The San Diego Union-Tribune.