Tyson, City Sued on Harassment Charges
by
Hank Sims
on
November 13, 2009 at 4:38PM
Tawnie Hansen, the former Eureka Police Department dispatcher who found herself at the center of a fight between supporters and detractors of Chief Garr Nielsen, has filed a huge lawsuit against the City of Eureka and City Manager David Tyson. Hansen, who is asking for $1.4 million plus punitive damages, alleges that the city slow-played an investigation into who was behind a blog called Above the Law, which was written from an anti-Nielsen point of view and hinted that Nielsen and Hansen, both married, had been having an affair.