HERRIMAN — An employee with the Herriman Police Department is facing a criminal charge accusing her of falsifying her time card.
Jeni Lee Harward, 49, of Kearns, was charged Wednesday in 3rd District Court with theft by deception, a second-degree felony, and falsifying a government record, a class B misdemeanor.
Harward was a community service officer. Herriman's website describes the Community Services Unit as "a civilian division" of the Herriman Police Department that "provides code enforcement, parking enforcement, animal services, and support for traffic and event operations throughout the city."
According to Herriman police, she resigned on Jan. 30 after working for the city for a little over four years.
"While investigating a separate incident concerning Harward, Herriman Police Department investigators noticed that there were irregularities between Harward's self-reported time and the entries being reported on her ... log," according to charging documents.
In August, Murray police were asked to investigate the case to avoid a conflict of interest.
"(Police) reviewed Harward's timecards and compared them with the GPS telematics from Harward's department vehicle for the dates between March 17, 2024, and July 29, 2025," the charges state. During that time, "Harward had improperly categorized her time by reporting it as regular working hours when her vehicle was never in Herriman for a total of 7,920 minutes (132 hours), resulting in a loss to Herriman city of $3,880."
It was also found that Harward did not work full days in some cases despite registering full-time on her time card, resulting in an additional loss of approximately $3,500 to the city, prosecutors said.
Investigators also took into account the overtime Harward reported working, and when combined with the time she claimed she worked but did not, "the combined total loss to Herriman city from the misreported times was $6,240.20," the charges allege.
