The American Civil Liberties Union wants a federal court to hold the city of Nome in contempt – for allegedly withholding police audits and emails in a legal case against the Nome police department. ( Editor's note: The plaintiff’s name is publicly available via court documents. As a standard policy, KNBA does not name sexual assault survivors without their permission.) In 2017, a 911 operator with the Nome Police Department reported to her supervisors that she had been sexually assault ed. Last year, the ACLU of Alaska filed a lawsuit against Nome and the police department on behalf of the operator, who is Iñupiaq – saying the police department failed to provide equal protection in her case. The complaint said that for more than a year, Nome police did not investigate her case – and “valuable evidence was lost because of the delay.” It also said the 911 operator’s case was just one example of the department’s mishandling of sexual assault reports involving Alaska Native women. On