Reports of sexual harassment and misconduct involving Maricopa County Sheriff candidate Tyler Kamp are emerging with the election just days away.

Kamp previously dodged questions about a brief sexual harassment report that was released by the city from his time as a lieutenant in the Phoenix Police Department. Now, a lawsuit has forced the release of hours of audio interviews and text messages between him and an officer-in-training who eventually became a trainee officer and reported directly.

The investigation found that between November 2020 and July 2021, Kamp sexually harassed the female officer, whose identity has been redacted, and violated both city and Phoenix Police Department policies prohibiting discrimination , harassment and retaliation.

“I always felt that Kamp was trying to control my job (by making me) feel like I might get in trouble if I didn’t respond, if I (wasn’t) cordial with him and (if I didn’t) put up with his behavior,” she the officer said in an interview with investigators.

The officer provided investigators with screenshots of text messages between her and Kamp that began on November 30, 2020.

The officer obtained Kamp’s personal cell phone number and contacted him to discuss work-related issues. However, on Dec. 3, Kamp asked the officer to share footage of her hunt. Kamp responded to the photo saying he was “turned on” and asked her out for drinks. The officer said she made it clear she wasn’t interested in a relationship with Kamp and didn’t think it was appropriate because she was in training and Kamp was married with children.

Kamp also texted the female officer asking what she was wearing, to which she replied that she was wearing black, to which he replied that “black on a blonde looks so good.”

Following further advances from Kamp, the officer sent her a message stating she was not interested and wanted to focus on work. However, just about a week later, he texted her: “Yoga pants??? Shoot I missed it… ummm a little better next time please!!”

Another time Kamp asked her to a New Year’s Eve party, which he said he was working at. He responded by saying: “Oh and my apologies in advance for Thursday night in case I send you something a little inappropriate after a few drinks.”

A few days later, he texted her: “Hey! Aren’t you proud of me??? I didn’t send you anything inappropriate on NYE.”

Following this incident, the female officer said that Kamp began to make her feel uncomfortable and that she was having “trouble” with him.

When the female officer became a probationary officer and reported to Kamp, he began tracking her whereabouts by keeping track of her schedule, where she was assigned and what vehicle she took. He would meet with her while she was on duty to discuss personal matters.

The report also states that Kamp allegedly interfered with the officer’s training and job opportunities, saying she would receive special attention and that people would be jealous because of her “looks.”

The female officer again confronted Kamp about his behavior via text message to which he responded by saying, “Ok, got it. So the next time I comment about you bending over or flirting with your eyes (intentionally or unintentionally), just tell me to take it down and grow big….”

However, Kamp continued to harass her, going so far as to discuss his sex life with her. It continued until Kamp retired from the Phoenix PD and moved to Ghana. The female officer then changed her phone number and reported the incident. She said in the report that she was too scared to report Kamp before then because he was her lieutenant and she didn’t want to lose his job. She said she did everything she could to avoid Kamp — she hid when she saw him and stayed in her patrol car until the end of her shift.

In response to the release of this full investigation, Kamp’s campaign said he never participated in an interview during the investigation. However, audio files have been obtained that prove otherwise.

During the interview, Kamp stated that he did not recall any inappropriate conversations with the female officer and that he could not provide proof of the text messages because he had lost his phone in South Africa.

“Any conversation, if you want to call it flirting or bantering, was completely mutual and solicited on her part,” Kamp said, claiming she would have such conversations with any of her peers and saying she “doesn’t understand the younger generation. “

He said that even if the allegations the officer made are true, he doesn’t see how it could be considered sexual harassment.

“I might have friendly banter with another guy or another girl,” Kamp said. “It doesn’t mean I’m attracted to them. It doesn’t mean I want to get into their pants.”

This was not Kamp’s first instance of violating the department’s administrative regulations.

An investigation found substantial evidence that in 2013, Kamp used police resources to conduct an Arizona Criminal Justice Information System query on the husband of a co-worker with whom he was having an “intimate relationship.”

The coworker asked Kamp to look for her husband’s driver’s license because her husband didn’t have his wallet on him and she needed the number. During an interview, the husband said he asked his wife if he could get the information, but did not know Kamp had conducted that search.

Kamp received an eight-hour suspension without pay.

Kamp’s campaign released a statement calling the release of the records “desperate” attempts by Republican candidate Jerry Sheridan.

However, it actually came from a public records request from Maricopa County resident Brian Anderson.

Anderson requested those records in March after hearing rumors of Kamp’s misconduct and told The Center Square that he had nothing to do with Sheridan’s campaign. Anderson added that he filed for the records in March, when neither Sheridan nor Kamp were nominated.

Anderson was forced to file a lawsuit after six months in which the Phoenix Police Department neglected to provide Kamp’s personnel file.

“Whether Kamp’s personnel file reveals anything is an entirely different question than the point of the lawsuit, which is that the government shouldn’t be putting its thumb on the election scale by withholding the records,” Anderson said. “When you have candidates especially for this office where they oversee law enforcement for four and a half million people, it’s really important that voters have timely access to public records to know how people would behave in a public office.”

Read the full report below.