A woman’s lawsuit over alleged sexual harassment and discrimination in the Farmington Fire Department is headed to a jury trial in U.S. District Court.
Judge David Nuffer recently denied Farmington city’s motion for summary judgment against Sarah Mojazza, who sued the city in February 2014, saying a fellow firefighter sexually harassed her and that she was fired after she complained about it.
Mojazza, a probationary part-time firefighter/EMT, was fired Jan. 8, 2013, after five months on the job. The city said in court documents that Fire Chief Guido Smith terminated Mojazza “because of her using the word f—- while on duty, in uniform, in public and in the presence of Farmington citizens,” and because she showed her supervisor and another firefighter a photo on her cellphone of a man with his genitalia exposed.