Lasata Care Center in Cedarburg required all employees to get an annual flu shot unless they could get a religious exemption. They required a “written statement from their clergy leader supporting the exemption with a clear reason and explanation.” Exempted employees had to wear a mask during flu season.
Barnell Williams, a certified nursing assistant, worked at Lasata from December 2015 to June 2017.
In the fall of 2016, Williams learned all employees had to get a flu shot by late October. She told then-Administrator Ralph Luedtke she believed her body was "a Holy Temple" and the Bible prohibited the introduction of foreign substances like a vaccine in her body.