Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty has filed a $5 million lawsuit against a police officer, the police union, and the former union head. Hardesty alleges members of the police bureau and union leaked information that falsely implicated her in a hit-and-run.
The lawsuits revolves around the political fallout from a car collision that took place March 3. A 46-year-old white woman who reported the crash told a 911 dispatcher she was confident that Hardesty had rear-ended her vehicle at an intersection in Southeast Portland and then fled the scene. The woman was wrong about the identity of the other driver. Police quickly identified the suspect as a woman from Vancouver, Washington. But, by that point, the false allegation against Hardesty had already been leaked to the media and published by news outlets, including The Oregonian/OregonLive.
The lawsuit, filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court Monday, accuses former Portland Police Association head Brian Hunzeker of leaking the incorrect information to the Oregonian. Hunzeker left his post as union head shortly after the incident, citing “a serious, isolated mistake.”
“On the evening of March 3, 2021 or the morning of March 4, 2021, Defendant Hunzeker contacted a reporter at the Oregonian, disclosed that Hardesty had engaged in criminal activity and provided the newspaper with a screenshot of the CAD call,” the lawsuit claims. “Defendant Hunzeker’s leak of this information violated both Oregon law and city policy.”
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