A lawsuit against the Lake County Coroner’s Office says that an ex-employee was mistreated because he wouldn’t return his retired dog to the office. At the Lake County Coroner’s Office, Jason Patt, who lived in Gurnee, was the chief deputy coroner. He then worked as a corrections officer for the Lake County Sheriff’s Office. He started working at the coroner’s office in 2007 and stayed there for 13 years. The lawsuit said that Lake County Coroner Jennifer Banek told Patt to send a letter of retirement the day before she took office in 2020, or else he would be fired.
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