Overview
Amy Estrada is a partner in AALRR’s San Diego office and serves school district, county office of education, and community college clients in San Diego, Orange, and Imperial counties.
Ms. Estrada provides assistance to education administrators and governing boards on a variety of personnel and general education issues, including certificated and classified discipline and dismissal; workplace and student investigations; Brown Act and Public Records Act compliance; Uniform Complaint investigations and responses; collective bargaining issues, including defending and presenting unfair practice charges before the Public Employment Relations Board; and defending employers against charges presented to state and federal agencies. Ms. Estrada is an experienced investigator and conducts investigations for schools, county offices, and community college districts on various claims including allegations of workplace misconduct, discrimination, harassment, bullying, and retaliation. Ms. Estrada is a member of the firm’s Title IX Sexual Misconduct Committee and regularly advises clients on Title IX sexual harassment grievance procedures.
Ms. Estrada provides trainings on preventing sexual harassment and discrimination, PROOF® and Title IX investigations training, and FRISK® training regarding documentation and remediation of employee performance deficiencies. Additionally, since 2020, Ms. Estrada has authored the Public Records Act chapter in the California Public Sector Employment Law treatise.
Prior to law school, Ms. Estrada taught Spanish for Spanish Speakers and Advanced Placement U.S. History at Escondido Union High School.