After his run-in with Major Welborn, Specialist Hall did not file a complaint with the Army's Equal Opportunity Office because, he said, he was mistrustful of his superior officers.
Lawyers for Ms. McCulloch said there was no equal employment opportunity office at the White House until recently.
Mr. Hayes first accused the agency of discrimination last year in a formal complaint to its Equal Employment Opportunity office, according to court documents.
He filed a complaint with the equal employment opportunity office at the agency and said he was soon notified that he would be subjected to a security investigation.
"The F.B.I. permitted racism to interfere with national security," Mr. Youssef said in an earlier filing with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's equal opportunity office.
Officials at the department's equal employment opportunity office acknowledged that the office had notified DOJ Pride of the decision regarding the gay pride event, but referred all other questions to the department's public affairs office.
The White House press secretary, Joe Lockhart, refused to discuss details of the case, but said that all employees were informed of their rights for filing grievances with the equal employment opportunity office at the White House.
If you think you've been subject to discrimination, another option is your institution's equal opportunity office.
Nevertheless, administrators would be wise to consult with the university's attorney as well as the Equal Opportunity Office, to ensure that their policy is in line with all relevant statutes.
For those employees, "even if you have a close, strong, personal relationship [with a student], you don't have confidentiality," said speaker Kristopher Stevens, associate director of the Equal Opportunity Office at the University of Georgia, Athens.
