FLDS member files lawsuit over loss of police certification

Salt Lake Tribune: “A man who lost his job in a polygamous community alleges Arizona officials trampled his civil rights and defamed him when they revoked his police certification. Preston Barlow, a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, filed the lawsuit Friday against Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, two special investigators and the state’s police certification board. Barlow, 30, alleges the state officials imposed a religious test on his service as a peace officer and misled him about the focus of an investigation that resulted in his certification being revoked in 2007.”

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