A Denver city employee who leaked information about a sheriff’s deputy’s alleged misconduct was placed on paid administrative leave Tuesday.

Brittany Iriart, a former special agent with the U.S. Department of State who has worked for the city for about three years, was placed on investigatory leave for “breaching the rules of confidentiality,” said Kelli Christensen, a spokeswoman for the Department of Public Safety. Christensen said Wednesday that Iriart also “made threatening statements toward staff.”

In a statement Thursday, Christensen said that Iriart threatened to retaliate against a Public Safety Department staff member and said she told her manager “she was just getting started” and “I’m more dangerous as former employee than a current one.”

Iriart’s attorney, Laura Wolf, denied that Iriart made any threats, but said Wednesday Iriart leaked details to the media about a case in which she was the original investigator because she felt the city’s conduct was so egregious that it needed to be exposed. Iriart also testified Wednesday before the Colorado legislature in support of a police reform bill.

“My client leaked that there were problems with an internal investigation and the discipline recommended by that investigation because of her concern for public safety,” Wolf said. “That is an investigation whose results would have been made publicly available — based on the fact there was discipline that had been recommended and verified by the fact-finding process — until Denver overrode that decision at the highest level of authority to hide the abuse.”

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