1 fired, 1 retired: Documents show S.C. State police changes
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (WIS) - South Carolina State University’s campus police chief and another high-ranking officer are no longer employed by the university.
S.C. State spokesperson Sam Watson said S.C. State Police Chief Timothy Taylor and Captain Jeblonski Green are no longer employed at the university.
According to the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy file, Taylor began working for the university on Oct. 20, 2021, and was fired on Friday, April 12 as “part of leadership realignment by the agency.”
The file also stated Green, who began working at the university on June 1, 2022, retired on Wednesday, April 17.
Both SC State and Green were recently named in a lawsuit filed by three former campus police officers alleging gender-based discrimination and a hostile work environment. Taylor was not named in the lawsuit.
S.C. State spokesperson Sam Watson said Capt. Africa Wells is temporarily taking over Taylor’s duties until an interim chief is named. Wells began working at the university on Oct. 2, 2023, the file stated.
News of the exits came just days after three former South Carolina State University campus police officers filed a federal lawsuit against the university and Green.
The three former officers claim that during their time at SCSU campus police, they faced gender-based discrimination and a hostile work environment.
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According to the suit, all of the officers worked at SCSU between September 2022 and June 2023.
The lawsuit claims the three women were “subject to unwelcome sexual conduct” at the hands of Green, who was second-in-command at the university police department.
One example the lawsuit gives is Green bringing the three women to Columbia to pick out uniforms. He made sexually suggestive comments while the women tried on the uniforms, according to the lawsuit.
The three women also experienced “unwelcome physical touching” by Green while they worked at SCSU as officers, the lawsuit says.
The lawsuit demanded a jury trial.
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