South Dakota ? Rapid City’s police chief said in a report released Friday that he regrets his department’s outing of a lesbian Air Force sergeant led to her military discharge, but that his officers followed department protocol.

Chief Steve Allender said the Rapid City Police Department will review policies on sharing information with other agencies and meet with members of the gay and lesbian community in the wake of Jene Newsome’s honorable discharge under the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.

“I trust through discussion and cooperation we can enjoy a mutual goal of healing and understanding,” Allender wrote in the report.

The January discharge came after Rapid City officers saw an Iowa marriage certificate in her home and told officials at the nearby Ellsworth Air Force Base. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a complaint with the department claiming the officers violated Newsome’s privacy.

Rapid City police have said Newsome, an aircraft armament system craftsman who spent nine years in the Air Force, was not cooperative when officers showed up at her home in November with an arrest warrant for her wife, who was wanted on theft charges in Fairbanks, Alaska.