The complaint, filed Oct. 22 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, names the city and council members Jamelle McKenzie and Tracie Arnold as defendants. Rogers alleges violations of her equal-protection rights, sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and retaliation under Georgia’s Whistleblower Act. She is seeking a jury trial and says the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued her a notice of her right to sue.

Rogers resigned in December 2025. The complaint says then-Deputy Chief Sharis McCrary warned her on Dec. 9 that she would be fired the next day and escorted from the workplace by an outside agency at McKenzie’s request. McCrary is now the city’s police chief and previously filed her own discrimination lawsuit against College Park.

Rogers alleges that she reported suspected misuse of public money to then-City Manager Emanuel Adediran and his successor, Lindell Miller. Among her concerns was a payment of nearly $500,000 to Keller Williams by the city’s Business and Industrial Development Authority. City officials have said the payment lacked proper approval and they learned of it months after it was made. Adediran has said he approved the payment based on a contract signed by then-BIDA chair Tracy Wyatt.

The lawsuit says Rogers sought warrants related to the payment. It also alleges that Councilman Joe Carn directed Adediran to approve two golf-cart purchases with police department funds, each kept below $10,000 so the purchases would not require Rogers’ approval.

The complaint further alleges McKenzie wanted Rogers fired because of her marriage and had asked her to issue arrest warrants against the councilwoman’s political opponents. McKenzie denied the accusations, saying she had never asked anyone to misuse police authority and that reporting a safety concern to law enforcement is not the same as directing an arrest or demanding an unlawful warrant.

McKenzie also rejected the complaint’s suggestion that she had a personal or political connection to Nichole Menzies, one of the Keller Williams brokers involved in the payment. She said she had not interfered with an investigation or sought to shield anyone from accountability.

Rogers’ attorney, Artur Davis, said in an email that Rogers was a victim of “political interference and low-level sexist bias.” A phone call and text to Arnold’s attorney were not returned by publication deadline. City Attorney Winston Denmark did not respond to a request for comment.

The case comes amid other legal disputes involving College Park officials. Former owners of Chelsea Gardens Apartments filed a separate lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court on Oct. 15, alleging city officials used code enforcement to harm their business and facilitate redevelopment of the property. Those allegations have not been established in court.