{"id":319311,"date":"2026-05-16T21:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T21:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/319311\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T21:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T21:42:12","slug":"sacramento-county-lawsuit-over-denied-lactation-accommodations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/319311\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento County lawsuit over denied lactation accommodations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-962496326.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"A Sacramento County analyst says she was denied lawful lactation accommodations and forced to pump in her car.\" alt=\"A Sacramento County analyst says she was denied lawful lactation accommodations and forced to pump in her car.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        A Sacramento County analyst says she was denied lawful lactation accommodations and forced to pump in her car.<\/p>\n<p>            Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Desirae Fox dreamed of creating livable communities while working for a Sacramento County regional planning agency. She helps local cities plan out their future, envisioning a vibrant future for residents.<\/p>\n<p>Fox, an analyst with the Local Agency Formation Commission, is a mother of four and delivered her most recent child last year. She returned to work, and walked into a room to breastfeed.<\/p>\n<p>But the space, known as a lactation pod under California state law, was an unmarked file cabinet room with \u201cno privacy, no sink and no refrigeration,\u201d according to a lawsuit filed last month. Fox said she instead pumped breastmilk in her car, which led to \u201chumiliation, inconvenience and physical discomfort,\u201d the lawsuit said.<\/p>\n<p>County spokesperson Kim Nava did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit alleges Sacramento County and the Sacramento Local Agency Formation Commission forced Fox, a Black woman, to work while on pregnancy disability leave and retaliated against her by \u201cdenying lawful lactation accommodations and imposing adverse work conditions.\u201d The other accusations include gender and racial discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were some big projects happening at the time,\u201d Fox said. \u201cI just didn\u2019t have the bandwidth to be the superstar analyst, because I thought I was in survival mode.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox is seeking an unspecified amount in damages. A hearing is scheduled next year for the case.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/279278099\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ISHANI-DESAI-HEADSHOT.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Ishani Desai\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/279278099\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ishani Desai<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Ishani Desai is a government watchdog reporter for The Sacramento Bee. She previously covered crime and courts for The Bakersfield Californian.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Sacramento County analyst says she was denied lawful lactation accommodations and forced to pump in her car.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-319311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}