Lawsuit: East Haven Police Officer Accused of Age Discrimination

Virginia Klump, 74, of East Haven, claims in a federal lawsuit that an East Haven police officer unfairly seized her license in a blatant case of age discrimination, according to the New Haven Register.

On Feb. 24, Klump was accused of hitting a car in the Shop Rite parking lot on Foxon Road.

The police officer took her license, and wouldn’t give it back to her, the lawsuit alleges.

The woman in the filing claims she was without her license for several weeks until recently getting it back, the Register reports.

The suit claims that video of the alleged accident shows that Klump’s car never hit the vehicle in question.

East Haven officials told the New Haven Register that they plan to strongly oppose the lawsuit, and noted that the original suit named the wrong police officer.

Read the full New Haven Register story here.