HUBBARD TOWNSHIP — Nearly a week after the township’s former police chief claimed in a lawsuit he was unfairly fired and mistreated because of his disabilities and for reporting threats made by a township trustee, a second one has been filed against the township.

Chris Gifford, a former police sergeant who served the township from May 2013 to March 2024 and the township’s police union president from 2016 to 2023, is suing Hubbard Township, Fiscal Officer Jennifer Evans and Trustee William Colletta, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.

Evans’ name was not found in the rest of the lawsuit or court records despite being listed as one of the defendants, however.

The case will be heard by Judge Sean O’Brien.

Gifford, who claims his resignation wasn’t

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