A Utah man is suing Alaska public safety officials, saying the Alaska State Troopers illegally discriminated against him by rescinding a job offer to become a trooper after learning he was HIV positive.
The Department of Public Safety said in a statement that it rejects the notion “that this individual was discriminated against due to their sexual orientation or private medical information.”
The plaintiff was living in Salt Lake City and working as a flight attendant when he applied for a job as a trooper in 2020, at a time when the state was aggressively recruiting for open law enforcement positions, according to the lawsuit filed in Anchorage Superior Court on Thursday. The man had passed several elements of job screening and received a conditional job offer by the time he went through a medical exam administered by Beacon Occupational Health, also a defendant in the case.A nurse practitioner working for Beacon wrote “incorrect statements” that the man “might need an accommodation for his HIV” in his file, the lawsuit contends.
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