Atashkar

FACTS

The complaint alleges in relevant part: The plaintiff was chief information officer of the CHRB. He retired as an employee of the CHRB on July 24, 2007. On June 18, 2008, he “filed a complaint with the California State Personnel Board (SPB) pursuant to Government Code section 8547.8.” He does not state what the complaint contained.

2 The court sustained the demurrer on the alternate ground that plaintiff failed to comply with the Government Tort Claims Act, a predicate to the filing of a tort claim for damages. (§§ 905.2, 911.2.) We have no occasion to consider this ground of demurrer.

2 Prior to that date plaintiff alleges that in February 2007 he reported improper activities “to the CHP (California Highway Patrol),”3 including the misappropriation of taxpayer funds, the backdating of contracts in favor of friends of CHRB executives, and the illegal collection of funds. He claims that after this the “CHRB began a campaign of retaliation against” him. Thereafter, on May 14, 2007, more than one year prior to the Board filing in June of 2008, the plaintiff alleges that he “writes harassment and hostile working environment complaint to CHRB board members requesting an…