Consumer Law
A Town in Indiana Is Being Sued by the Government Over Discrimination Against a Man With HIV
The federal government is accusing a southern Indiana town of discriminating against a man with HIV who applied to become a police officer.
The Justice Department said it filed a lawsuit Monday against Clarksville, Indiana.
Clarksville police had offered a job to a man who was already working as a volunteer reserve officer but then dropped the offer in 2015 based on his HIV status, the Justice Department said.
“No qualified individual should lose a hard-earned career opportunity because of misguided views about their disability that are not supported by medicine or science,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the department’s Civil Rights Division.
