A retired Salt Lake City police officer is now suing her former employer, saying she was forced out of her job for bringing to light unethical behavior by a Salt Lake County prosecutor.
Hilary Gordon, who worked at the department for two decades, claims in a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court that she was retaliated against and wrongly disciplined for recording conversations with a homicide prosecutor whom she felt was acting unethically. She later turned over the recordings to Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill, who demoted the prosecutor, the lawsuit claims.
The prosecutor in question is not identified in Gordon’s lawsuit, and Gill was not immediately available for comment.