In addition to the settlement, firefighter Melinda Abbt also received $250,000 in a separate lawsuit against the city employee who stole the video. Abbt worked at Station 18 in Houston’s East ...

Today, Houston City Council approved an $850,000 settlement with former Houston Fire Department Captain Melinda ... video from Abbt's personal laptop and shared it with another firefighter.

Melinda Abbt, a former firefighter, sued the city after she became aware that a then-colleague had taken an intimate video from her laptop in 2008 and shared it with a now-retired chief. " ...

Melinda Abbt worked at Houston’s Station 18 in ... $850K sexual misconduct settlement prompts calls for changes in Houston's firefighter contract The state law that prevented the department ...

This comes after officials say a supervisor secretly took an intimate video from Abbt's personal laptop and shared it with another firefighter. They continued to watch the video repeatedly for years.