Detective Sues Fairfield Police Department: Report

FAIRFIELD, CT — A Fairfield detective is suing the town’s police department, and said she was reassigned from her work investigating domestic violence after she complained about an investigation into allegations against another officer involving domestic violence, according to the Connecticut Post.

Kerry Dalling, who founded Fairfield’s domestic violence unit in 2007, is claiming free speech violation and seeking monetary damages, the Post reported. After Dalling raised concerns in May about the department’s handling of the investigation, which involved an officer from a different jurisdiction, she was excluded from meetings, taken off domestic violence cases and told to vacate her office space, among other things, according to the Post.

Attorneys for Dalling and Fairfield police both declined comment to the Post.

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