A county-employed social worker failed to show that a retaliatory animus could be inferred from her termination because there was ample evidence that the county reasonably believed she violated federal patient privacy law and county policies, in addition to showing poor judgment, when she accessed patient files to confirm their contact information, used that information to encourage them to participate in a public board meeting in spite of their vulnerable mental health and without consulting their treating physicians, in which she represented herself as a constituent and not a county employee in order to complain about county-provided mental health services, a state appellate court in California ruled in an unpublished opinion, affirming the lower court.
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