An Oregon woman has been left horrified after finding out that a high-powered official in her tiny town spread her nudes around the local sheriff’s office.
Haley Olson, 31, of Canyon City in Grant County, was arrested for the possession of marijuana while in Idaho in January 2019. She told the state trooper who arrester her that she was dating Tyler Smith, the Grant County Sheriff’s Deputy, who she has since become engaged to.
A business card of his was found in her car, corroborating her story, according to The Oregonian.
Olson eventually signed a form consenting to Idaho police being able to search her cellphone. Police made a copy of the contents, which later led to them dropping the charges against Olson, who owns a marijuana dispensary in John Day, Oregon.
When Glenn Palmer, who was the Grant County Sheriff at the time, heard about Olson’s arrest from someone in his office he called the Idaho trooper who dealt with her case to request the file on her phone data, which he was denied.
He told the trooper he wanted the file because he was ‘curious’ if any of its contents could prove misconduct on Smith’s part because he suspected his deputy ‘might be involved in illegal activities with Olson,’ according to The Oregonian.
Palmer then went to Grant County District Attorney Jim Carpenter to have his office request the file, which the DA did.
Carpenter, who has recently been granted qualified immunity for his actions, told the Jerome County DA that the file’s content would be ‘used only for internal purposes’ and it would not be given to other agencies or third parties.
Haley Olson, 31, of Canyon City in Grant County, was arrested in January 2019 for the possession of marijuana in Idaho by a state trooper
Olson eventually signed a form consenting to Idaho police being able to search her cellphone, which Grant County DA Jim Carpenter, of Oregon, later did.
When Glenn Palmer, who was then the Grant County Sheriff, heard about Olson’s arrest from someone in his office he called the Idaho trooper who dealt with her case to request the file on her phone
Almost immediately after receiving the file on a flash drive, Carpenter asked detectives from the Oregon State Police and the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office to look at the file, which they declined to do because there was no criminal investigation open.
The DA eventually reviewed the file himself in April 2019, where he found nude photos of Olson and Smith. However, he found no evidence that Smith or Olson were engaging in illegal activities.
Carpenter and Palmer deny spreading Olson’s nudes, but the young woman argued in her lawsuit that the DA did share her photos with the sheriff as multiple deputies mentioned to her that they had seen the photos.
The gossip she heard about her photo ‘all seemingly originated from the sheriff’s office,’ court documents said.
Palmer claimed the DA offered to let him look at the hard drive, telling him: ‘There were things on the cellphone that ‘once you see them, you can’t un-see them.’
A deputy, who came to her marijuana store, told her there was ‘some pretty smokin’ pictures of you going around the sheriff’s office,’ court documents said.
A witness also testified that two employees looked at Olson’s nudes on a phone, the outlet reported.
The gossip lead to Olson suing Carpenter, Palmer, and Grant County in federal court for violating her 14th Amendment eights. The amendment protects citizens against unreasonable search and seizure.
Carpenter’s review did not find any misconduct by Smith (pictured with Olson), but it did find nude photos of both the deputy and Olso
Carpenter and Palmer deny spreading the sensitive photos, but a 9th Circuit judge ruled they did not have permission to look at her phone’s content
US District Judge Karin J Immergut threw out the case, citing that Carpenter qualified for immunity and Palmer had no ‘supervisory liability’ over the DA. She also could not find evidence that Palmer had actually viewed the cellphone’s contents.
However, 9th Circuit Judge M Margaret McKeown said Olson’s 14th Amendment rights were violated because Carpenter had no reason to view the cellphone’s content without a warrant or suspicion of criminal activity.
The judge also said the information was disseminated past Olson’s original consent to allow Idaho State Police to view it.
‘It defies common sense to hypothesize a potential Brady complication when there has been no prosecution, no investigation, nor even a whiff of criminal activity,’ McKeown wrote.
However, Jill Conbere, who represented Carpenter, said departments sharing information is ‘standard practice’ and the DA was not required to get a warrant as she had already given the Idaho State Police permission.
The 9th Circuit cited the number of times Palmer and Carpenter were blocked by other agencies as a reason they did not need the information.
Although Olson’s phone did not lead to findings of misconduct by Smith, he was later fired in 2019 over alleged assault and sex abuse complaints, according to The Oregonian. He was later acquitted in 2022.
Palmer lost his re-election campaign for sheriff in 2020.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Olson for comment.
