SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A former West Jordan police officer who took the Utah city to court after enduring a decade of harassment and subsequent retaliation for his labor and sexual harassment complaint with the state says he feels “vindicated” now that a federal jury has awarded him nearly $3 million in damages.
The jury found the city had maliciously prosecuted and retaliated against Aaron D. Jensen, who sued West Jordan in Salt Lake City’s U.S. District Court in 2012 after he filed a 2008 labor and sexual harassment complaint with the state.
Jensen says the jury sided with him Wednesday on each of five claims in the civil-rights lawsuit.
West Jordan officials released a statement saying the city respects the jury’s decision, but believes the case is “far from over.”
