Former Milton zoning inspector files sex discrimination suit

YOUNGSTOWN — A woman has sued Milton Township and its trustees, claiming she was a victim of sex discrimination when she was fired from her job as the township zoning inspector in July 2004.

Elizabeth Opre, of Mill Road, who filed the lawsuit this week in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, said she became zoning inspector in 2002, working 30 to 40 hours a week and being paid $650 per month.

In the suit, Opre said trustees Loy Metzler and Sue Lemmon harassed her by more closely supervising and slowing her work and impeding her enforcement of the zoning code after Opre declined to issue a building permit for a Lake Milton lot that was 22 feet short of the minimum required depth.

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