WASHINGTON COUNTY — A husband and wife have filed another lawsuit against the city of Nashville, Illinois, claiming they were fired for exposing corruption in the city’s police department.

Melissa Hopfinger was an administrative assistant with the Nashville Police Department and her husband Greg Hopfinger was a police officer. They were both fired last August.

Melissa filed a lawsuit that same month claiming she was fired after she and her husband filed separate reports claiming legal and regulatory violations by Nashville Police Chief Brian Fletcher.

In her lawsuit, Melissa Hopfinger says that in May 2017 Fletcher was falsifying firearms training documents and that at that time she told Mayor Rolf that Fletcher was not providing information to account for his absences from work, allowing him to take time off without using sick days or vacation time.

She was terminated in August 2017 after taking time off from work to have a hysterectomy, but doing her work from home while she recovered. She reportedly told her position was being eliminated.

Her husband, Greg Hopfinger, worked at the Nashville police department for 16 years before being fired on August 22, nine days before his wife’s termination.

In his lawsuit, he also accuses Fletcher of failing to re-certify for his firearm qualification and falsifying qualification records.

He further claims Fletcher misappropriated donations.failed to report or record an incident involving a high school student robbed at gunpoint; had officers help him move furniture instead of monitoring the crosswalk at an elementary school; denied pay to an officer called in to work on a day off; paied overtime to an officer who didn’t earn it; and failed to follow up with citizens requesting police assistance.