Local journalists mentioned in former police chief’s lawsuit

By ZOE MASON on February 3, 2026.

Two local journalists are mentioned in the lawsuit filed by former Medicine Hat police chief Mike Worden against MHPS Const. Noel Darr.

Darr is scheduled to appear at the Medicine Hat Court of Justice on Feb. 10 to enter a plea after he was charged with witness tampering in July following an investigation by the Edmonton police.

The statement of claim for Worden’s lawsuit mentions former CHAT News reporters Teagan Rasche and Tiffany Goodwein.

The files allege that former MHPS Insp. Brent Secondiak, another defendant in Worden’s lawsuit, falsely represented to Darr that Rasche had issued a complaint to the City of Medicine Hat alleging that Worden harassed her in the fall of 2021.

Secondiak made this claim in spring 2022, shortly before Darr issued a written complaint against Worden to the Medicine Hat Police Commission including numerous allegations about Worden’s sexual relationships.

The text of the complaint is attached to the lawsuit. It includes allegations that Worden used his public social media persona as chief of MHPS to initiate inappropriate sexual interactions, and described fringe sexual preferences, including “consensual non-consent.”

An investigation was initiated by the police commission in April 2022 to look into the complaint. In May, Rasche told the commission she did not make a harassment complaint.

In May 2022 investigation concluded that they had found no wrongdoing on the part of Worden.

Later that month, an article was published by Global News disclosing that Worden had been investigated for being in an improper sexual relationship.

The article included the allegations of Medicine Hat woman Sashia Stiere, who had been in a consensual sexual relationship with Worden, that Worden requested she delete all messages between them. Worden denies this claim. Stiere is also a defendant in the lawsuit.

Stiere had also had a previous romantic relationship with Darr.

Shortly after the publication of the Global News article, the lawsuit alleges Darr contacted Goodwein and fed her false information about Worden. The information supplied to Goodwein included that Worden had been subject to internal discipline and investigation while with the Calgary Police Service, and that his departure from CPS was involuntary.

Worden left CPS in 2021 after 25 years with the service to take the role of chief of police for MHPS.

Goodwein subsequently informed the police commission that Darr had asked her to report information that would have been damaging to Worden’s information.

Worden’s lawsuit alleges that the MHPS did not take appropriate measures to prevent Darr from taking further steps against Worden after receiving this information from Goodwein. It also alleges MHPS did not take adequate steps to mitigate the harm caused to Worden by the Global News article.

It is expected that the investigation that yielded Darr’s criminal charges is related to the events outlined in the civil suit.

Neither the civil nor the criminal allegations have been proven in a court of law.