Arizona state Senator Sylvia Allen is a wingnut’s wingnut who likes guns and state militias and “constitutional conservative” sheriffs like Richard Mack, the guy who wanted women and children up front at the Bundy Ranch in case shooting started. In 2009, she supported uranium mining in Arizona because uranium and people and animals have all been together for the entire 6,000 years of the Earth’s existence, and God never saw fit to require regulations on uranium in the Garden of Eden.

So she’s not exactly the person you’d expect to sponsor a bill to strengthen workers’ rights against their bosses investigating allegations of misconduct. OK, maybe not all workers — just cops and correctional officers, really.

Funny thing, really, since her son-in-law is a former detention officer who was accused of sexual misconduct with a female prisoner.

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You see, in 2014, Allen’s son-in-law, Timothy Hunt, was a detention officer at the Navajo County Jail, and he either got himself into a smidge of trouble for inappropriate interactions with several female prisoners, including one he persuaded to give him a blowjob in exchange for cigarettes and matches… OR, as seems far more likely, Hunt is an innocent lamb who was just doing his job until a cabal of his bosses at the jail conspired to make up completely unfounded accusations against him, persuaded six female prisoners to lie about him making “sexually suggestive remarks and gestures” to them, and used a fake polygraph exam to make it look like he was deceptive.

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While an independent investigation continued at the jail, Allen continued to do her own “investigation,” claiming that the county’s computer files had been tampered with and generally making a pain of herself, for the sake of justice, of course. Despite her efforts, the actual investigator (no doubt part of the plot) found that four out of the five claims against Hunt were valid

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