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The Rapid City Police Department says Newsome, an aircraft armament system craftsman who spent nine years in the Air Force, was not cooperative when they showed up at her home in November with an arrest warrant for her partner, who was wanted on theft charges in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Newsome was at work at the base at the time and refused to immediately come home and assist the officers in finding her partner, whom she married in Iowa — where gay marriage is legal — in October.
Police officers, who said they spotted the marriage license on the kitchen table through a window of Newsome's home, alerted the base, police Chief Steve Allender said in a statement sent to the AP. The license was relevant to the investigation because it showed both the relationship and residency of the two women, he said.
The whole thing sounds like such bull****.
She didn't leave work immediately and come home to help you find someone who lived in her house, and that makes her "not cooperative"? Since when do the police have the authority to make you do that?
Oh, you just happened to look through a window, see a piece of paper from across the room, and be able to read it to make out that she was married to a chick? And you then just happened to tell the base solely because you thought it would help prove that she knew where the chick was? Such ****ing garbage.
Seems like a pretty obvious case of police misconduct.
Lesbian sgt. discharged after police tell military
Jene Newsome played by the rules as an Air Force sergeant: She never told anyone in the military she was a lesbian. The 28-year-old's honorable discharge under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy came only after police officers in Rapid City, S.D., saw an Iowa marriage certificate in her home and told the nearby Ellsworth Air Force Base.
Newsome and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a complaint against the western South Dakota police department, claiming the officers violated her privacy when they informed the military about her sexual orientation. The case also highlights concerns over the ability of third parties to "out" service members, especially as the Pentagon has started reviewing the 1993 "don't ask, don't tell" law.
Full Article: Lesbian sgt. discharged after police tell military - Yahoo! News
What the police did to this woman is unacceptable. They have ZERO right to reveal sexual orientation to ANYBODY.
Despite the fact that the police, who have arbitrarily declared themselves innocent (can you say cover-up), I find fault in their actions.
The officers responsible for contacting the military need to be fired. The ranking officers who covered up their actions need to be fired.
I hope the victim sues the pants off the police, the city, and the State of South Dakota.
Oh, you just happened to look through a window, see a piece of paper from across the room, and be able to read it to make out that she was married to a chick? And you then just happened to tell the base solely because you thought it would help prove that she knew where the chick was? Such ****ing garbage.
Seems like a pretty obvious case of police misconduct.
The whole thing sounds like such bull****.
She didn't leave work immediately and come home to help you find someone who lived in her house, and that makes her "not cooperative"? Since when do the police have the authority to make you do that?
Oh, you just happened to look through a window, see a piece of paper from across the room, and be able to read it to make out that she was married to a chick? And you then just happened to tell the base solely because you thought it would help prove that she knew where the chick was? Such ****ing garbage.
Seems like a pretty obvious case of police misconduct.
Nothing about police misconduct here. The issue is DADT. The military didn't ask, and she didn't tell.
The sad part is the discharge is perfectly legal. Once the command has the allegation, the gay servicemember has two options, lie(which puts them in a bad position legally, with a potential BCD at worse, a general discharge at best), or admit it and take the discharge.
Nothing about police misconduct here. The issue is DADT. The military didn't ask, and she didn't tell.
The fact that the police shared confidential information with the Air Force is very important. The police were wrong and they need to be fired and lose their pensions over it.
The fact that the police shared confidential information with the Air Force is very important. The police were wrong and they need to be fired and lose their pensions over it.
Oh spare us this bleeding heart bull****. She knew what the policy was and she knew the risks.
And as those who support your position constantly argue, she kept her preference to herself, not flaunting it at work, but nonetheless, she's lost her career.
No she did not. She got married. A legally binding and PUBLIC certificate flaunting the policy she agreed to be under.
No she did not. She got married. A legally binding and PUBLIC certificate flaunting the policy she agreed to be under.
Oh spare us this bleeding heart bull****. She knew what the policy was and she knew the risks.
it in no way entered into her military career, she kept it at home, no-one asked, and she didnt tell, and thats the point, the only way someone could have found out is if they had specifically sort after that information, which violates DADT
How dare she parade her relationship around in the privacy of her own home!
It's not bleeding heart anything. She was doing precisely what DADT required; it was not her doing that the police violated her privacy.
Sorry, she did not keep it at home. She notified the government of her intentions by obtaining a legal marriage license. There is no wiggle room here. If she was just living with her, ok thats a much harder case to make but a marriage license? Please.
public or not, its irrelevant, the military wouldn't have sought out anything about her private life as that would violate their end of DADT
Not necessarily. In the course of investigations for initial security clearances and renewals, they are generally quite thorough at uncovering information about you, especially if it's something such as a legal document filed with a state or local government. I don't know if her job required her to have a security clearance, but it's very possible the marriage license would have been discovered by the military anyway.
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