SRO Appeals Firing for Flashing Speedo

PROVO, Utah — A school resource officer with the Provo Police Department has appealed his department’s decision to fire him for flashing a green speedo and dancing suggestively at a school secretary’s birthday party.

Cody Harris was dismissed last month.

“He was supposed to be a frog,” said Robert Gentry, interim superintendent at the district, told the Associated Press. “We feel like he was a very good resource officer and did an outstanding job. He interacted very well with the students. This was just so out of character.”

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