County Settles Sexual Harassment Suit Against Prosecutor

Evansville IN

05 August, 2021

11:09 AM

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By Steve Burger, WNIN Aug. 5, 2021 Vanderburgh County Commissioners Tuesday voted to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit against Prosecutor Nicholas Hermann. The lawsuit was filed in February of 2020 in federal court by a former employee in the prosecutor's office, Samantha Merideth. In a statement released a year earlier in 2019, Merideth alleged that Hermann harassed and assaulted her at a business conference in Chicago in 2013. Merideth later resigned from the prosecutor's office. Over the county's web feed, commission attorney David Jones offered the settlement for approval. Jones told the commissioners, "Again, there is an absolute denial of any liability. It's a cost of defense settlement." Commissioners unanimously passed the settlement. Terms and the amount of the settlement were not disclosed. WNIN has reached out to commissioners and to Samantha Meredeth's attorney for comment. We will update this story as that information becomes available. With the expiration of the Centers for Disease Control COVID-19 moratorium on evictions over the weekend, local housing organizations are scrambling to find new funding to help renters and mortgage holders stay in their homes. A paper mill will produce one hundred percent recycled products. When you look at what's known as the annual point in time survey, the first thing you notice is that the number of people experiencing homelessness in Evansville is down- way down. WNIN is the NPR/PBS affiliate in Evansville, Indiana. We serve Southwestern Indiana, Western Kentucky and Southern Illinois from our multimedia facility located on the Ohio River in downtown Evansville. For the past several years, the recognized quality of our local news has placed us among the best small market radio news organizations in the nation.