AZ AG Tags City, Utilities w/ Fair Housing Suit Alleging Failure To Provide Service To Customer Due To His Religion, Failure To Accommodate Disability

From the Office of the Arizona Attorney General:

• Attorney General Terry Goddard [] announced that his office has filed a lawsuit against the Town of Colorado City, Arizona, the City of Hildale, Utah, Hildale-Colorado City Utilities, Twin City Water Authority, and Twin City Power for alleged violations of the Arizona Fair Housing Act.

• The suit follows an investigation by the Arizona Attorney General’s Civil Rights Division, which concluded that there is reasonable cause to believe that the Defendants discriminated against Colorado City resident Ronald Cooke by not providing water and other utility services because of his religion and by not accommodating his disability. Mr. Cooke is a former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (“FLDS”).

For the Arizona AG press release, see Goddard Files Fair Housing Lawsuit against Colorado City for Civil Rights Violations.

For the lawsuit, see State of Arizona v. Hildale-Colorado City Utilities, et al.