WICHITA, Kan. -- A former city civil rights director who claims he was fired because he is black was the target of surveillance by city intelligence officers, a former police officer said.
Former Police Lt. Sheldon Wulf testified in U.S. District Court that former city intelligence officers Pat Taylor and Pete Dubovich had been assigned to put Jesse Rice under surveillance in an effort to build a case for firing him.
Rice, former director of the city's Civil Rights and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, was fired in early 1979. He filed suit in federal court claiming he was fired because he is black.
At a hearing Wednesday, Wulf testified that both Taylor and Dubovich told him last year they were assigned to watch Rice.
On Tuesday, both former intelligence officers testified they had never tailed Rice and had never been assigned to put him under surveillance.
