The lawsuit said the officer presented a letter from his health care provider showing that his HIV status should not disqualify him from employment.
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The lawsuit, filed Friday in federal court in Nashville, said the officer presented a letter from his health care provider showing that his HIV status should not disqualify him from employment. The officer, identified only by the pseudonym John Doe, says in the letter that he has successfully suppressed the virus with medication and that his viral load is undetectable.“Undetectable means un-transmittable,” the letter states.
The department previously defended the decision to rescind Doe’s offer of employment in a position statement to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2021. It explains that the city’s charter requires all police officer candidates to meet the physical requirements for admission to the U.S. Army or Navy. Those regulations exclude people with HIV from enlisting and are currently the subject of a separate lawsuit by Lambda Legal.
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