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ANCHORAGE (KTUU) – The City of Nome is facing the threat of a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union following what the latter is calling systemic and decades-long indifference toward Alaska Native women, as exemplified in a 2017 case of sexual assault that went ignored by the victim’s colleagues in public safety.
Clarice Hardy was working as a police dispatcher in March of 2017 when she says she was raped in her home. Along with video evidence, she filed a complaint with the Nome Police Department, which failed to investigate her claims. Her complaint documenting an act of sexual violence never even received a case number and the video evidence from Snapchat was automatically erased after 30 days, according to the ACLU.
