A Sandy police chief who was fired last year amid allegations of inappropriate touching received $100,000 from the city after threatening to sue, new documents detail.
Kevin Thacker was ousted as the city’s top cop last April, after city officials determined he had hugged female employees too often and too long.
At a news conference, Mayor Kurt Bradburn said the alleged behavior had spanned a number of years, and that Thacker had been “cautioned” but had not changed his behavior.
Months later, Thacker notified the city that he intended to sue, calling Bradburn’s announcements to the news media nothing more than “melodramatic presentations” intended to cast the mayor as someone fighting against sexual misconduct and for “wives” and “daughters,” according to a notice of claim released Wednesday in response to a records request from The Salt Lake Tribune.