City still waiting on intimate images case review
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This article was published 05/04/2022 (1437 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The City of Brandon is still waiting on a legal opinion after a judge found a woman’s privacy was breached during a police hiring competition.
Justice Sandra Zinchuk found the city and Terry Lynn Peters jointly and severally liable for general damages of $45,000 and Peters liable for aggravated damages of $15,000 after being sued by Brittany Roque.
Roque sued Peters for sharing Roque’s intimate images without her consent. The trial was heard virtually in mid-February 2021. The city is listed as a third party in the lawsuit.
“The decision in the Roque case was sent in for signing last Friday and is likely to be entered into judgment within the next couple of days. The legal counsel retained by our insurer, Bernice Bowley, is drafting an Opinion for our review. It is expected to be complete in the coming weeks,” reads a statement from a city spokesperson.
The case stems from a 2017 incident in which Peters shared Roque’s intimate images with the Brandon Police Service senior executive during a police hiring competition for which Roque applied.
In March 2017, Roque underwent a polygraph test as part of the hiring process, where she disclosed her past relationship with Brandon police officer Ryan Friesen, Peters’ then-partner.
At the end of the meeting, she was told she could either withdraw from the hiring process or else she would be removed by the Brandon Police Service, according to the agreed statement of fact in Zinchuk’s decision.
Roque declined to withdraw from the competition and subsequently filed complaints with the IIU and the RCMP.
In the decision, Zinchuk said BPS deputy chief Randy Lewis viewed Roque’s images without her consent, which “substantially, and unreasonably violated her privacy.”
The Sun asked whether the city would appeal the decision, but did not receive a response by press time on Tuesday.
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