Decatur officials not biased in firing homosexual cop

DECATUR - Decatur&#39;s highest-ranking female police officer, who charged she was fired because she&#39;s homosexual, will not get her job back. <br> <br> Attorney Mark Burnette ruled city officials did not discriminate against Criss Hudson on May 2 when she was disciplined for cheating on a test and eliminated her job in a department reorganization. <br> <br> Burnette, however, said the city should not have cut Hudson&#39;s pay ten percent as punishment for cheating. She will receive about $1,000 for the time she was with the department after being disciplined. <br> <br> City Manager Peggy Merriss had testified at an August hearing that she no longer could trust Hudson after an investigation revealed Hudson had asked other officers to help her with open-book college exams. <br> <br> The city was paying for Hudson to get an undergraduate degree in criminal justice.