Lesbian Police Officer’s Bias Suit Dismissed in San Francisco

The San Francisco Police Department’s investigation into a romantic relationship between two female employees was reasonable based on a potential conflict of interest, and wasn’t motivated by gender or sexual orientation bias, a state appellate court said Wednesday.

Department employees Josey Russell and Nadia Mohamed, who had been in a romantic relationship since 2014, worked closely together when Mohamed became a field training officer on a team where Russell was the training coordinator.

In 2017, one of the recruits Mohamed was training complained that he received unfair treatment from her, but that he wasn’t comfortable raising concerns to Russell because ...