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The allegations touched seven law enforcement agencies, including Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1904px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11840506\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-8.31.22-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1904\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-8.31.22-PM.png 1904w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-8.31.22-PM-800x133.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-8.31.22-PM-1020x169.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-8.31.22-PM-160x27.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-8.31.22-PM-1536x255.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1904px) 100vw, 1904px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Newly disclosed text messages between Sgt. Detective Erik Oliver and Celeste Guap. \u003ccite>(City of Richmond)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former police chief Allwyn Brown \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11085660/police-chief-no-crimes-by-richmond-officers-in-sexual-exploitation-scandal\">publicly promised\u003c/a> residents at the time that officers would be disciplined decisively for any “sustained allegations” involving the young Richmond woman “especially ones that carry harm to the public service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records now show six of the nine men were given written reprimands and allowed to stay on the job. The city moved to fire three officers. An additional two officers resigned before facing discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Richmond released the names of three officers that had not been publicly named before: Sgt. Detective Erik Oliver, Detective Dan Campos and Officer Joe Deorian. All three were reprimanded for sexting with Guap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1911px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11840510 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Richmond-police.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1911\" height=\"1136\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Richmond-police.png 1911w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Richmond-police-800x476.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Richmond-police-1020x606.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Richmond-police-160x95.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Richmond-police-1536x913.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1911px) 100vw, 1911px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Wednesday, Richmond released the names of three officers that had not been publicly named before: Sgt. Detective Erik Oliver (L), Detective Dan Campos (C) and Officer Joe Deorian (R). All three were reprimanded for sexting with Guap. \u003ccite>(City of Richmond)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2016, Guap had named six other men who worked at the Richmond Police Department: Lt. Andre Hill, Sgt. Jerred Tong, Sgt. Terrance Jackson, Lt. Felix Tan, Mike Rood and Armando Moreno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a yearlong legal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11736667/bay-area-ruling-could-fast-track-access-to-police-records-under-new-law\">battle\u003c/a>, the city of Richmond finally released disciplinary records for all of the officers to KQED and other news organizations as part of a settlement agreement stemming from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11724434/contra-costa-county-judge-to-weigh-public-access-to-police-records\">lawsuit\u003c/a> over \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1421\">SB 1421\u003c/a>, the “Right to Know” police transparency act that went into effect in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These newly released records out of Richmond show one of the highest ranking officers involved — Lt. Felix Tan, a 20-year veteran of the department — received a written reprimand for sexting. Tan became the public information officer for the Richmond Police Department after the scandal broke and Lt. Andre Hill was removed from the position. In 2019, Tan was voted crime prevention officer of the year, but has not received any promotions, according to another public information officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guap sent Tan a nude photo of herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of course I made some comments because I’m a guy,” Tan said. He also admitted to asking for more photos, according to the documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1087px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11840505\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-6.19.29-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1087\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-6.19.29-PM.png 1087w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-6.19.29-PM-800x152.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-6.19.29-PM-1020x194.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-6.19.29-PM-160x30.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1087px) 100vw, 1087px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Text messages between Celeste Guap and Sgt. Detective Erik Oliver. \u003ccite>(City of Richmond)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Investigators found that then-Sgt. Armando Moreno knew that Guap was a prostitute when he had sex with her off duty, and ran a name for her through a confidential police database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreno allegedly met Guap while patrolling an area known for sex trafficking and offered her a prostitution resource card. But later, in spring 2016, their relationship became sexual. Moreno also allegedly shared a police report with Guap about a sexual assault against one of her friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson confirmed that Moreno is still with the Richmond Police Department but now holds a lower rank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Mike Rood was the head of the Regulatory Unit overseeing medical marijuana dispensaries, and held previous positions as homicide detective and patrol officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond officials reprimanded Rood for sexting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rood told investigators he was curious when Guap first reached out to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have never had anyone just message me and say I wanna f*k you in a hotel,” he said. “So yeah, I made a poor judgment, I should not have met with her, but I did because I wanted to make sure she understood that I was not interested.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rood remained on the job, but at the lower rank of officer. [aside tag='police-records' hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Police-Art_1.gif\" heroLink=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/police-records\" target=\"_blank\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Richmond also provided additional records on the three Richmond officers who worked with at-risk youth in the community and were terminated for their misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11767613/ex-richmond-police-lieutenant-swapped-sexually-explicit-texts-with-exploited-teen\">Lt. Andre Hill\u003c/a> was the head of the Youth Services Division when he began sexting with Guap and went to her house for oral sex. Hill insisted he didn’t know she was soliciting him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought I was just a special guy,” he told investigators. “I just thought that she maybe liked cops, maybe was a cop groupie, and wanted to just interact with me sexually.” In 2018, Hill appealed the city’s decision to terminate him in Contra Costa County Superior Court, but the judge sided with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Terrance Jackson told department internal affairs investigators that he recognized her as a former student at De Anza High where he worked as the school’s resource officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city initially \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11748275/richmond-officer-found-to-have-engaged-in-predatory-behavior-won-job-back-on-appeal-records-show\">moved to fire\u003c/a> Jackson for having sexual contact with Guap while on duty, and in uniform. Jackson appealed and was allowed to stay on with a dock in pay. In an email, the Richmond Police Department confirmed that Jackson has retired from the force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerred Tong was fired for engaging in oral sex with Guap on two occasions, “while knowing she was a prostitute” and then lying about it during an internal investigation. Tong also ran a search for Guap on a police database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show Guap often initiated contact with the officers — friending them on Facebook. Officers and their attorneys have used this as evidence showing that Guap was the aggressor. Some officers said they accepted her request because they had many friends in common. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allwyn Brown, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/scathing-report-blasts-richmond-police-department/Content?oid=23230640\">criticized for his handling\u003c/a> of the 2016 scandal, resigned last year after a no-confidence vote from rank-and-file officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bisa French was appointed Richmond’s police chief in July. French did not reply to an email requesting comment on these disclosures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the publication of this article on Wednesday, French issued a statement to Richmond city officials via email on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The officers involved in this case behaved in a manner that is outside the scope of what is acceptable for a police officer,\" French wrote. \"I do not condone this behavior and I am taking a zero-tolerance approach for misconduct within the Richmond Police Department, particularly as it relates to issues of morale turpitude. Misconduct, whether on or off duty, is unacceptable, and we cannot behave in a way that erodes public trust and tarnishes our reputation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>French said that although she cannot change the disciplinary decisions of her predecessor, \"I am making sure that police department staff are clear about the swift consequences of improper behavior.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is the first city to make a full disclosure of its internal records relating to the scandal that also implicated officers in the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office, Livermore Police Department, Oakland Police Department, the San Francisco Police Department and the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last June, the Oakland Police Department released a heavily redacted executive summary of findings related to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11757557/oakland-releases-heavily-redacted-records-that-shed-light-raise-questions-on-sex-abuse-case\">just five officers\u003c/a> but have still not released the audio files or additional underlying records as required under SB 1421. The department is currently facing a lawsuit over its lax responsiveness to requestors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other five agencies have either not responded to requests filed Jan 1, 2019 or have denied having any findings of sexual misconduct or lying by officers associated with the Guap case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to include a statement from Richmond Police Chief Bisa French.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-160x155.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"155\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-11786993\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-160x155.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-800x777.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-1020x990.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1.png 1030w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>This story was produced by the \u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">California Reporting Project\u003c/a>, a coalition of 40 news organizations across the state. The project was formed in 2018 to request and report on previously secret records of police misconduct and use of force in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Disciplinary files released late Wednesday provide new insight into how the Richmond Police Department disciplined nine officers who were involved in the multi-agency sexual exploitation scandal that rocked Bay Area police departments four years ago.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1613759472,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":38,"wordCount":1393},"headData":{"title":"High-Ranking Richmond Police Kept Their Jobs After Sexts With Teen | KQED","description":"Disciplinary files released late Wednesday provide new insight into how the Richmond Police Department disciplined nine officers who were involved in the multi-agency sexual exploitation scandal that rocked Bay Area police departments four years ago.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"High-Ranking Richmond Police Kept Their Jobs After Sexts With Teen","datePublished":"2020-10-01T04:31:35.000Z","dateModified":"2021-02-19T18:31:12.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11840500 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11840500","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/09/30/high-ranking-richmond-police-kept-their-jobs-after-sexts-with-teen/","disqusTitle":"High-Ranking Richmond Police Kept Their Jobs After Sexts With Teen","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/5bd64372-54d6-4d45-b9c9-ac48012e69dc/audio.mp3","path":"/news/11840500/high-ranking-richmond-police-kept-their-jobs-after-sexts-with-teen","audioDuration":null,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:55 a.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police officers in Richmond who swapped sexually explicit text messages with a local teenager — and in some cases asked for pictures of her naked — got to keep their jobs, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disciplinary files released late Wednesday provide new insight into how the Richmond Police Department disciplined nine officers who were involved in the multi-agency sexual exploitation scandal that rocked Bay Area police departments four years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, the then-18-year-old going by the name Celeste Guap told Oakland Police Department internal affairs investigators that she had sex with 30 officers who worked for Bay Area agencies in exchange for protection from arrest. The allegations touched seven law enforcement agencies, including Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1904px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11840506\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-8.31.22-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1904\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-8.31.22-PM.png 1904w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-8.31.22-PM-800x133.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-8.31.22-PM-1020x169.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-8.31.22-PM-160x27.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-8.31.22-PM-1536x255.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1904px) 100vw, 1904px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Newly disclosed text messages between Sgt. Detective Erik Oliver and Celeste Guap. \u003ccite>(City of Richmond)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former police chief Allwyn Brown \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11085660/police-chief-no-crimes-by-richmond-officers-in-sexual-exploitation-scandal\">publicly promised\u003c/a> residents at the time that officers would be disciplined decisively for any “sustained allegations” involving the young Richmond woman “especially ones that carry harm to the public service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records now show six of the nine men were given written reprimands and allowed to stay on the job. The city moved to fire three officers. An additional two officers resigned before facing discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Richmond released the names of three officers that had not been publicly named before: Sgt. Detective Erik Oliver, Detective Dan Campos and Officer Joe Deorian. All three were reprimanded for sexting with Guap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1911px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11840510 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Richmond-police.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1911\" height=\"1136\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Richmond-police.png 1911w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Richmond-police-800x476.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Richmond-police-1020x606.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Richmond-police-160x95.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Richmond-police-1536x913.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1911px) 100vw, 1911px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Wednesday, Richmond released the names of three officers that had not been publicly named before: Sgt. Detective Erik Oliver (L), Detective Dan Campos (C) and Officer Joe Deorian (R). All three were reprimanded for sexting with Guap. \u003ccite>(City of Richmond)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2016, Guap had named six other men who worked at the Richmond Police Department: Lt. Andre Hill, Sgt. Jerred Tong, Sgt. Terrance Jackson, Lt. Felix Tan, Mike Rood and Armando Moreno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a yearlong legal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11736667/bay-area-ruling-could-fast-track-access-to-police-records-under-new-law\">battle\u003c/a>, the city of Richmond finally released disciplinary records for all of the officers to KQED and other news organizations as part of a settlement agreement stemming from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11724434/contra-costa-county-judge-to-weigh-public-access-to-police-records\">lawsuit\u003c/a> over \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1421\">SB 1421\u003c/a>, the “Right to Know” police transparency act that went into effect in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These newly released records out of Richmond show one of the highest ranking officers involved — Lt. Felix Tan, a 20-year veteran of the department — received a written reprimand for sexting. Tan became the public information officer for the Richmond Police Department after the scandal broke and Lt. Andre Hill was removed from the position. In 2019, Tan was voted crime prevention officer of the year, but has not received any promotions, according to another public information officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guap sent Tan a nude photo of herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of course I made some comments because I’m a guy,” Tan said. He also admitted to asking for more photos, according to the documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11840505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1087px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11840505\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-6.19.29-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1087\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-6.19.29-PM.png 1087w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-6.19.29-PM-800x152.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-6.19.29-PM-1020x194.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-6.19.29-PM-160x30.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1087px) 100vw, 1087px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Text messages between Celeste Guap and Sgt. Detective Erik Oliver. \u003ccite>(City of Richmond)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Investigators found that then-Sgt. Armando Moreno knew that Guap was a prostitute when he had sex with her off duty, and ran a name for her through a confidential police database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreno allegedly met Guap while patrolling an area known for sex trafficking and offered her a prostitution resource card. But later, in spring 2016, their relationship became sexual. Moreno also allegedly shared a police report with Guap about a sexual assault against one of her friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson confirmed that Moreno is still with the Richmond Police Department but now holds a lower rank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Mike Rood was the head of the Regulatory Unit overseeing medical marijuana dispensaries, and held previous positions as homicide detective and patrol officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond officials reprimanded Rood for sexting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rood told investigators he was curious when Guap first reached out to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have never had anyone just message me and say I wanna f*k you in a hotel,” he said. “So yeah, I made a poor judgment, I should not have met with her, but I did because I wanted to make sure she understood that I was not interested.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rood remained on the job, but at the lower rank of officer. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"police-records","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Police-Art_1.gif","herolink":"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/police-records","target":"_blank","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Richmond also provided additional records on the three Richmond officers who worked with at-risk youth in the community and were terminated for their misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11767613/ex-richmond-police-lieutenant-swapped-sexually-explicit-texts-with-exploited-teen\">Lt. Andre Hill\u003c/a> was the head of the Youth Services Division when he began sexting with Guap and went to her house for oral sex. Hill insisted he didn’t know she was soliciting him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought I was just a special guy,” he told investigators. “I just thought that she maybe liked cops, maybe was a cop groupie, and wanted to just interact with me sexually.” In 2018, Hill appealed the city’s decision to terminate him in Contra Costa County Superior Court, but the judge sided with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Terrance Jackson told department internal affairs investigators that he recognized her as a former student at De Anza High where he worked as the school’s resource officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city initially \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11748275/richmond-officer-found-to-have-engaged-in-predatory-behavior-won-job-back-on-appeal-records-show\">moved to fire\u003c/a> Jackson for having sexual contact with Guap while on duty, and in uniform. Jackson appealed and was allowed to stay on with a dock in pay. In an email, the Richmond Police Department confirmed that Jackson has retired from the force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerred Tong was fired for engaging in oral sex with Guap on two occasions, “while knowing she was a prostitute” and then lying about it during an internal investigation. Tong also ran a search for Guap on a police database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show Guap often initiated contact with the officers — friending them on Facebook. Officers and their attorneys have used this as evidence showing that Guap was the aggressor. Some officers said they accepted her request because they had many friends in common. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allwyn Brown, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/scathing-report-blasts-richmond-police-department/Content?oid=23230640\">criticized for his handling\u003c/a> of the 2016 scandal, resigned last year after a no-confidence vote from rank-and-file officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bisa French was appointed Richmond’s police chief in July. French did not reply to an email requesting comment on these disclosures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the publication of this article on Wednesday, French issued a statement to Richmond city officials via email on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The officers involved in this case behaved in a manner that is outside the scope of what is acceptable for a police officer,\" French wrote. \"I do not condone this behavior and I am taking a zero-tolerance approach for misconduct within the Richmond Police Department, particularly as it relates to issues of morale turpitude. Misconduct, whether on or off duty, is unacceptable, and we cannot behave in a way that erodes public trust and tarnishes our reputation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>French said that although she cannot change the disciplinary decisions of her predecessor, \"I am making sure that police department staff are clear about the swift consequences of improper behavior.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is the first city to make a full disclosure of its internal records relating to the scandal that also implicated officers in the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office, Livermore Police Department, Oakland Police Department, the San Francisco Police Department and the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last June, the Oakland Police Department released a heavily redacted executive summary of findings related to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11757557/oakland-releases-heavily-redacted-records-that-shed-light-raise-questions-on-sex-abuse-case\">just five officers\u003c/a> but have still not released the audio files or additional underlying records as required under SB 1421. The department is currently facing a lawsuit over its lax responsiveness to requestors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other five agencies have either not responded to requests filed Jan 1, 2019 or have denied having any findings of sexual misconduct or lying by officers associated with the Guap case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to include a statement from Richmond Police Chief Bisa French.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-160x155.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"155\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-11786993\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-160x155.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-800x777.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-1020x990.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1.png 1030w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>This story was produced by the \u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">California Reporting Project\u003c/a>, a coalition of 40 news organizations across the state. The project was formed in 2018 to request and report on previously secret records of police misconduct and use of force in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11840500/high-ranking-richmond-police-kept-their-jobs-after-sexts-with-teen","authors":["6625","8676"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_19708","news_19903","news_24767","news_19969","news_20625","news_19662"],"featImg":"news_11840507","label":"news"},"news_11767613":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11767613","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11767613","score":null,"sort":[1565882415000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"ex-richmond-police-lieutenant-swapped-sexually-explicit-texts-with-exploited-teen","title":"Ex-Richmond Police Lieutenant Swapped Sexually Explicit Texts With Exploited Teen","publishDate":1565882415,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A former Richmond police lieutenant who ran the department’s Youth Services Division was fired in 2017 for swapping sexually explicit text messages while on duty and engaging in oral sex with the teen known as “Celeste Guap,” court records obtained by KQED reveal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Richmond hasn't released disciplinary records about former Lt. Andre Hill under the state's new police transparency law, Senate Bill 1421, which defines sexual assault against a member of the public broadly when a cop is on duty and requires such records be made public.[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Todd Simonson, Attorney for Richmond']'Lieutenant Hill’s first concern ... was to play with Miss (Guap’s) breasts and secondarily, to verify that she was indeed 18 years old. In that order.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These records fall squarely within the new transparency law,” said media law and open government attorney Michael Risher. “Here's a sustained finding against the officer for sexting on and off duty, and a specific factual finding that while he was on duty he sent text messages to an 18-year-old member of the public, which clearly fall within the definition of propositioning her for a sexual act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond's deputy city attorney handling its disclosures under SB 1421 did not respond to messages Wednesday, nor did the City Attorney's Office. Richmond Mayor Tom Butt declined to comment due to ongoing litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guap, the daughter of an Oakland police dispatcher, was at the center of a vast police sexual exploitation case exposed in 2016 spanning several Bay Area departments, including in Richmond, where she lived. She has said she had sexual relationships with dozens of Bay Area officers in exchange for protection from arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11748275/richmond-officer-found-to-have-engaged-in-predatory-behavior-won-job-back-on-appeal-records-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously released\u003c/a> information about another officer, Terrance Jackson, who had a sexual encounter with Guap while he was on duty and won his job back on appeal, claiming nothing else was releasable under the new law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents in a civil lawsuit Hill filed last year to get his job back show that an internal affairs investigation found he “engaged in sexual text messaging,” with Guap both on and off duty, over a few months starting in December 2015. Investigators also concluded that Hill “engaged in oral sex” off duty at Guap’s home on March 24, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond authorities concluded that Hill’s actions, while legal, “reflected unfavorably upon the Department and its members,” especially given Hill’s position at the time as head of Richmond Police Department’s Youth Services Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Hill’s relationship with Guap — and his firing — were previously known, the filings in lawsuit reveal new details about the case and disagreement between Richmond officials on how severely to discipline the former lieutenant.[aside tag='police-sexual-exploitation' label='Police Sexual Exploitation' heroLink='https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/police-sexual-exploitation' target='_blank']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transcripts of the 324 text messages collected from Guap’s cellphone by the Oakland Police Department show Hill texted, “I want to play wit those titties” and asked Guap to “Send a pic of your nippes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill argued he didn’t know that Guap was a sex worker, but she told investigators he absolutely knew, because she told him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one text Guap wrote that she had been kidnapped three times in the past four years, “that’s why I keep to people in your profession.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators couldn’t conclusively prove that Hill knew Guap’s line of work, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Allwyn Brown wanted to suspend Hill for 120 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a Jan. 17, 2017, termination notice to Hill, then-City Manager Bill Lindsay wrote that he could not accept the chief’s recommendation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The behavior described in the Internal Affairs report can only be described as predatory,” Lindsay wrote. “Termination is the appropriate level of discipline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Jackson’s case, an internal investigation found he had engaged in predatory behavior toward the teen when he went to her house on duty and in uniform and fondled her vagina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city manager also fired Jackson, but his job was reinstated on appeal with 160 hours suspension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An administrative law judge recommended similar leniency for Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a January 2018 hearing sealed from the public, Hill’s attorney Michael Rains said his client regretted accepting Guap’s friend request on Facebook, according to transcripts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He is sorry that he ever responded,” Rains argued, “and very sorry for his conduct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rains didn’t respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the hearing, however, he argued that termination was too severe for an employee who did not break the law.[aside tag='police-records' hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Police-Art_1.gif\" heroLink=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/police-records\" target=\"_blank\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he engaged in conduct that was lawful in every respect, that was consensual in every respect, that he thought was private in every respect,” Rains said, “how in the world does he get disciplined for conduct bringing disrepute to the department?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rains implored the judge to consider that Hill had no previous record of serious misconduct in his roughly 22 years of service with the Richmond Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond’s attorney, Todd Simonson, argued that the city has the authority to fire Hill, especially in light of the lieutenant’s leadership of the Youth Services Division. Simonson told the administrative law judge that Guap was “an extremely troubled youth at the time, exactly the kind of youth that Lieutenant Hill’s divisions was supposed to protect and serve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Simonson said, Hill did the opposite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lieutenant Hill’s first concern, according to the text messages that we’ll go through, was to play with Miss (Guap’s) breasts and secondarily, to verify that she was indeed 18 years old. In that order,” Simonson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Administrative law judge Jill Schlichtmann ultimately recommended that Hill should be reinstated, but demoted to the rank of police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(Hill’s) misconduct was very serious, however, it occurred during a short period of time during his 22 years at the department,” she wrote in a recommendation. “He has otherwise lived a law-abiding life and has given much to the people of Richmond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unconvinced, Lindsay again concluded that firing was the proper discipline for Hill’s behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill has now appealed in Contra Costa Superior Court. The next hearing in that case is scheduled for Oct. 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Thomas Peele of the Bay Area News Group contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced as part of the California Reporting Project, a collaboration of 40 newsrooms across the state to obtain and report on police misconduct and serious use-of-force records unsealed in 2019.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Richmond did not release the records under a new police transparency law, but they were included in a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by former Lt. Andre Hill.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1566013697,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":36,"wordCount":1185},"headData":{"title":"Ex-Richmond Police Lieutenant Swapped Sexually Explicit Texts With Exploited Teen | KQED","description":"Richmond did not release the records under a new police transparency law, but they were included in a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by former Lt. Andre Hill.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Ex-Richmond Police Lieutenant Swapped Sexually Explicit Texts With Exploited Teen","datePublished":"2019-08-15T15:20:15.000Z","dateModified":"2019-08-17T03:48:17.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11767613 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11767613","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/08/15/ex-richmond-police-lieutenant-swapped-sexually-explicit-texts-with-exploited-teen/","disqusTitle":"Ex-Richmond Police Lieutenant Swapped Sexually Explicit Texts With Exploited Teen","path":"/news/11767613/ex-richmond-police-lieutenant-swapped-sexually-explicit-texts-with-exploited-teen","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A former Richmond police lieutenant who ran the department’s Youth Services Division was fired in 2017 for swapping sexually explicit text messages while on duty and engaging in oral sex with the teen known as “Celeste Guap,” court records obtained by KQED reveal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Richmond hasn't released disciplinary records about former Lt. Andre Hill under the state's new police transparency law, Senate Bill 1421, which defines sexual assault against a member of the public broadly when a cop is on duty and requires such records be made public.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Lieutenant Hill’s first concern ... was to play with Miss (Guap’s) breasts and secondarily, to verify that she was indeed 18 years old. In that order.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"small","align":"right","citation":"Todd Simonson, Attorney for Richmond","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These records fall squarely within the new transparency law,” said media law and open government attorney Michael Risher. “Here's a sustained finding against the officer for sexting on and off duty, and a specific factual finding that while he was on duty he sent text messages to an 18-year-old member of the public, which clearly fall within the definition of propositioning her for a sexual act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond's deputy city attorney handling its disclosures under SB 1421 did not respond to messages Wednesday, nor did the City Attorney's Office. Richmond Mayor Tom Butt declined to comment due to ongoing litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guap, the daughter of an Oakland police dispatcher, was at the center of a vast police sexual exploitation case exposed in 2016 spanning several Bay Area departments, including in Richmond, where she lived. She has said she had sexual relationships with dozens of Bay Area officers in exchange for protection from arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11748275/richmond-officer-found-to-have-engaged-in-predatory-behavior-won-job-back-on-appeal-records-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously released\u003c/a> information about another officer, Terrance Jackson, who had a sexual encounter with Guap while he was on duty and won his job back on appeal, claiming nothing else was releasable under the new law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents in a civil lawsuit Hill filed last year to get his job back show that an internal affairs investigation found he “engaged in sexual text messaging,” with Guap both on and off duty, over a few months starting in December 2015. Investigators also concluded that Hill “engaged in oral sex” off duty at Guap’s home on March 24, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond authorities concluded that Hill’s actions, while legal, “reflected unfavorably upon the Department and its members,” especially given Hill’s position at the time as head of Richmond Police Department’s Youth Services Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Hill’s relationship with Guap — and his firing — were previously known, the filings in lawsuit reveal new details about the case and disagreement between Richmond officials on how severely to discipline the former lieutenant.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"police-sexual-exploitation","label":"Police Sexual Exploitation ","herolink":"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/police-sexual-exploitation","target":"_blank"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transcripts of the 324 text messages collected from Guap’s cellphone by the Oakland Police Department show Hill texted, “I want to play wit those titties” and asked Guap to “Send a pic of your nippes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill argued he didn’t know that Guap was a sex worker, but she told investigators he absolutely knew, because she told him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one text Guap wrote that she had been kidnapped three times in the past four years, “that’s why I keep to people in your profession.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators couldn’t conclusively prove that Hill knew Guap’s line of work, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Allwyn Brown wanted to suspend Hill for 120 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a Jan. 17, 2017, termination notice to Hill, then-City Manager Bill Lindsay wrote that he could not accept the chief’s recommendation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The behavior described in the Internal Affairs report can only be described as predatory,” Lindsay wrote. “Termination is the appropriate level of discipline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Jackson’s case, an internal investigation found he had engaged in predatory behavior toward the teen when he went to her house on duty and in uniform and fondled her vagina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city manager also fired Jackson, but his job was reinstated on appeal with 160 hours suspension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An administrative law judge recommended similar leniency for Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a January 2018 hearing sealed from the public, Hill’s attorney Michael Rains said his client regretted accepting Guap’s friend request on Facebook, according to transcripts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He is sorry that he ever responded,” Rains argued, “and very sorry for his conduct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rains didn’t respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the hearing, however, he argued that termination was too severe for an employee who did not break the law.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"police-records","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Police-Art_1.gif","herolink":"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/police-records","target":"_blank","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he engaged in conduct that was lawful in every respect, that was consensual in every respect, that he thought was private in every respect,” Rains said, “how in the world does he get disciplined for conduct bringing disrepute to the department?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rains implored the judge to consider that Hill had no previous record of serious misconduct in his roughly 22 years of service with the Richmond Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond’s attorney, Todd Simonson, argued that the city has the authority to fire Hill, especially in light of the lieutenant’s leadership of the Youth Services Division. Simonson told the administrative law judge that Guap was “an extremely troubled youth at the time, exactly the kind of youth that Lieutenant Hill’s divisions was supposed to protect and serve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Simonson said, Hill did the opposite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lieutenant Hill’s first concern, according to the text messages that we’ll go through, was to play with Miss (Guap’s) breasts and secondarily, to verify that she was indeed 18 years old. In that order,” Simonson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Administrative law judge Jill Schlichtmann ultimately recommended that Hill should be reinstated, but demoted to the rank of police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(Hill’s) misconduct was very serious, however, it occurred during a short period of time during his 22 years at the department,” she wrote in a recommendation. “He has otherwise lived a law-abiding life and has given much to the people of Richmond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unconvinced, Lindsay again concluded that firing was the proper discipline for Hill’s behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill has now appealed in Contra Costa Superior Court. The next hearing in that case is scheduled for Oct. 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Thomas Peele of the Bay Area News Group contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced as part of the California Reporting Project, a collaboration of 40 newsrooms across the state to obtain and report on police misconduct and serious use-of-force records unsealed in 2019.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11767613/ex-richmond-police-lieutenant-swapped-sexually-explicit-texts-with-exploited-teen","authors":["6625"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_19708","news_19542","news_24767","news_24770","news_19969","news_20338"],"featImg":"news_11767616","label":"news"},"news_11641845":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11641845","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11641845","score":null,"sort":[1515810322000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"xavier-becerra-immigration-news-opd-chief-anne-kirkpatrick","title":"Xavier Becerra, Immigration News, OPD Chief Anne Kirkpatrick","publishDate":1515810322,"format":"video","headTitle":"KQED Newsroom | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":7052,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>State Attorney General on Resisting the Trump Administration\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>On Thursday, President Trump reportedly referred to Haiti and African nations as “shithole countries.” California Attorney General Xavier Becerra responded by saying that Trump has “denigrated the word of the president.” We also talk to Becerra about other areas of conflict between California and the Trump administration, such as a possible crackdown by federal authorities on states such as California that have legalized marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Immigration: El Salvador, 7-Eleven, ‘Dreamers’\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>The Trump administration announced it would terminate residency permits for 200,000 Salvadorans living in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status. Federal immigration agents also raided 7-Eleven stores across the country, looking for undocumented immigrants and managers who employ them. On Capitol Hill, there were talks on how to protect 800,000 so-called Dreamers brought to the U.S. illegally as children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guests:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Deep Gulasekaram, Santa Clara University professor of law\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Robert Nuñez, DACA recipient\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Laura Sanchez, Carecen SF legal program director\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>It’s been a year since Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick took the helm of a police department that was mired in scandal. The department had lost three chiefs in nine short days, while investigating allegations of sexual misconduct involving dozens of officers and a teenage girl. The department also has been under federal court oversight for about 15 years in the wake of the “Riders” case. We talk to the new chief about what she’s doing to reform the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"It’s been a year since Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick took the helm of a police department that was mired in scandal. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1515810322,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":6,"wordCount":264},"headData":{"title":"Xavier Becerra, Immigration News, OPD Chief Anne Kirkpatrick | KQED","description":"It’s been a year since Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick took the helm of a police department that was mired in scandal. 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Federal immigration agents also raided 7-Eleven stores across the country, looking for undocumented immigrants and managers who employ them. On Capitol Hill, there were talks on how to protect 800,000 so-called Dreamers brought to the U.S. illegally as children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guests:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Deep Gulasekaram, Santa Clara University professor of law\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Robert Nuñez, DACA recipient\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Laura Sanchez, Carecen SF legal program director\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>It’s been a year since Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick took the helm of a police department that was mired in scandal. The department had lost three chiefs in nine short days, while investigating allegations of sexual misconduct involving dozens of officers and a teenage girl. The department also has been under federal court oversight for about 15 years in the wake of the “Riders” case. We talk to the new chief about what she’s doing to reform the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11641845/xavier-becerra-immigration-news-opd-chief-anne-kirkpatrick","authors":["236"],"programs":["news_7052"],"categories":["news_1169","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_20361","news_19708","news_20226","news_20415","news_22334","news_20202","news_20297","news_20052","news_19177","news_18584","news_416","news_20081","news_20481","news_20378"],"featImg":"news_11641847","label":"news_7052"},"news_11111141":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11111141","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11111141","score":null,"sort":[1475287044000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"teens-claim-in-police-sex-exploitation-case-seeks-30-million-from-richmond","title":"Teen's Claim in Police Sex Exploitation Case Seeks $30 Million From Richmond","publishDate":1475287044,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Attorneys for the teenager at the center of a sexual misconduct scandal involving \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/09/30/exploited-teen-sues-city-of-richmond/\" target=\"_blank\">seven law enforcement agencies\u003c/a> across the Bay Area have filed a $30 million claim against the city of Richmond and five police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jasmine Abuslin's \u003ca href=\"#anchor\">claim\u003c/a> states she was an exploited minor working in the sex trade, and that as she interacted with \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/06/30/opd-sex-scandal-sheriffs-deputy-resigns-richmond-officers-named/\" target=\"_blank\">Richmond police officers\u003c/a>, instead of helping her escape prostitution, they further exploited her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The claim says that five Richmond officers violated her rights by \"sexually trafficking her between and among police officers and sheriff deputies throughout the Bay Area or by failing in their mandatory duty to report the abuse and thereby ratifying the conduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Tom Butt's office released a statement saying that the city will review the claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"City Officials have condemned the actions identified in the investigation and have made it clear they will not tolerate conduct in any department that compromises the City’s standards of integrity or the trust placed in our city by the public,\" Butt's statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While no criminal charges have been brought against Richmond police officers, an \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/12/police-chief-no-crimes-by-richmond-officers-in-sexual-exploitation-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">internal investigation\u003c/a> into police misconduct resulted in \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/23/richmond-cops-facing-discipline-in-sex-exploitation-case-include-sergeants-lieutenants/\" target=\"_blank\">disciplinary action\u003c/a> against nine officers for their involvement with Abuslin.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"anchor\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nAbuslin's attorneys have also filed a claim against \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/16/criminal-charges-legal-claim-filed-in-cop-sexual-exploitation-case/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland\u003c/a>. They said Friday that they recently filed similar claims in Alameda County, San Francisco and Livermore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=325999583 key=key-IjM9SV9LqgaqixgGttyo mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Attorneys say similar claims now filed against Alameda County, San Francisco, Livermore and Oakland.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1475532898,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":9,"wordCount":250},"headData":{"title":"Teen's Claim in Police Sex Exploitation Case Seeks $30 Million From Richmond | KQED","description":"Attorneys say similar claims now filed against Alameda County, San Francisco, Livermore and Oakland.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Teen's Claim in Police Sex Exploitation Case Seeks $30 Million From Richmond","datePublished":"2016-10-01T01:57:24.000Z","dateModified":"2016-10-03T22:14:58.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11111141 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11111141","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/30/teens-claim-in-police-sex-exploitation-case-seeks-30-million-from-richmond/","disqusTitle":"Teen's Claim in Police Sex Exploitation Case Seeks $30 Million From Richmond","nprStoryId":"496166959","path":"/news/11111141/teens-claim-in-police-sex-exploitation-case-seeks-30-million-from-richmond","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Attorneys for the teenager at the center of a sexual misconduct scandal involving \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/09/30/exploited-teen-sues-city-of-richmond/\" target=\"_blank\">seven law enforcement agencies\u003c/a> across the Bay Area have filed a $30 million claim against the city of Richmond and five police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jasmine Abuslin's \u003ca href=\"#anchor\">claim\u003c/a> states she was an exploited minor working in the sex trade, and that as she interacted with \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/06/30/opd-sex-scandal-sheriffs-deputy-resigns-richmond-officers-named/\" target=\"_blank\">Richmond police officers\u003c/a>, instead of helping her escape prostitution, they further exploited her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The claim says that five Richmond officers violated her rights by \"sexually trafficking her between and among police officers and sheriff deputies throughout the Bay Area or by failing in their mandatory duty to report the abuse and thereby ratifying the conduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Tom Butt's office released a statement saying that the city will review the claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"City Officials have condemned the actions identified in the investigation and have made it clear they will not tolerate conduct in any department that compromises the City’s standards of integrity or the trust placed in our city by the public,\" Butt's statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While no criminal charges have been brought against Richmond police officers, an \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/12/police-chief-no-crimes-by-richmond-officers-in-sexual-exploitation-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">internal investigation\u003c/a> into police misconduct resulted in \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/23/richmond-cops-facing-discipline-in-sex-exploitation-case-include-sergeants-lieutenants/\" target=\"_blank\">disciplinary action\u003c/a> against nine officers for their involvement with Abuslin.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"anchor\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nAbuslin's attorneys have also filed a claim against \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/16/criminal-charges-legal-claim-filed-in-cop-sexual-exploitation-case/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland\u003c/a>. They said Friday that they recently filed similar claims in Alameda County, San Francisco and Livermore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ciframe\n class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\"\n src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/325999583/content?start_page=1&view_mode=&access_key=key-IjM9SV9LqgaqixgGttyo\"\n title=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/325999583\"\n data-auto-height=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"scribd_325999583\"\n width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n \u003ca class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__scribdShortcode__scribd_footer\"\n href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/325999583\"\n target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View this document on Scribd\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11111141/teens-claim-in-police-sex-exploitation-case-seeks-30-million-from-richmond","authors":["8676"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_19708","news_19969"],"featImg":"news_10640976","label":"news_6944"},"news_11088092":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11088092","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11088092","score":null,"sort":[1473903707000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"teen-victim-in-cop-sex-case-freed-from-florida-jail-returning-to-bay-area","title":"Teen at Center of Cop Sex Case Freed From Florida Jail, Returning to Bay Area","publishDate":1473903707,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The East Bay teenager at the center of a police sexual misconduct case was released from a Florida jail on Wednesday -- free to testify against police officers \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/09/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager/\" target=\"_blank\">charged last week\u003c/a> with exploiting her when she was a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nineteen-year-old Jasmine Abuslin -- previously known publicly as Celeste Guap -- appeared in a Martin County, Florida, court to plead no contest to a misdemeanor count of battery. The charge grew out of an altercation at a drug treatment facility to which she'd been sent by law enforcement officials in Richmond, a move that itself is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/09/08/richmond-police-launched-effort-to-send-celeste-guap-to-florida/\" target=\"_blank\">subject of controversy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin has reportedly told investigators that while working in the East Bay sex trade, she had sexual contact with as many as 30 law enforcement officers. Those officers were members of seven different agencies, apparently including the police departments in Oakland, Richmond, Livermore and San Francisco and the sheriff's offices in Alameda and Contra Costa counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Friday, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley announced her office was bringing charges against seven men, including five Oakland police officers, one from Livermore and a sheriff's deputy from Contra Costa County. The charges include oral copulation with a minor, engaging in an act of prostitution, obstruction of justice and unauthorized access to law enforcement computer systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin's attorney, Pamela Price, said that in addition to helping her client through criminal proceedings against the accused police officers, she and fellow lawyer Charles Bonner plan to sue the seven jurisdictions believed to be involved in the case. She said she also hopes that state and federal agencies will take over the investigation into sex trafficking involving police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin \"is not the only one\" who has been victimized, Price said. She alleged a \"network of police officers\" is involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You cannot have this many officers engaged in this conduct across jurisdictional lines without an internal network and communication amongst all of them,\" Price said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked repeatedly whether officers had paid Abuslin in exchange for sex, Price said, \"This child has been kidnapped, she has been placed in fear of her life, she has been held against her will in multiple locations in the Bay Area. So whether or not someone gave her a dollar or a dime is irrelevant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price said Abuslin had been trafficked since the age of 12 and decided to drop her pseudonym as part of moving on with her life after the exploitation case made her the center of often hostile attention on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Celeste Guap is dead,\" Price said during a press conference in Stuart, Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guap, Price said, was \"blasted all over the news with Kardashian-like celebrity status (and) was a victim of child sex trafficking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin, on the other hand, \"is a young woman who is going to find herself, who wants to become a veterinarian. She's going to go back to school, she's going to create a life that every young woman should have,\" Price said. \"Jasmine is going to have a second chance\" at life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonner told reporters that the legal team has arranged for Abuslin to receive medical and psychiatric treatment by specialists at Stanford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her charging announcement Friday, Alameda County DA O'Malley criticized Richmond authorities for sending the key witness in a sensitive case to Florida -- ostensibly for drug treatment that the prosecutor said was readily available in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price expanded upon that criticism Wednesday, saying that while she didn't know Richmond officials' motives, Abuslin is not drug-addicted and sending her out of state bore the appearance of witness tampering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She is a witness to criminal activity, a criminal conspiracy in the Bay Area,\" Price said. \"There is no reason or rhyme to why she is here in Stuart, Florida. And the fact that she was arrested in a matter of days, charged and jailed for 17 days on a felony charge is just mind-boggling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a report released earlier this week on his department's handling of the case, Richmond Police Chief Allwyn Brown rejected suggestions of a conspiracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Representations that we 'sent' this teenage witness away or had her 'removed' to Florida distort reality,\" Brown wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the chief added that several officers in the department could be subject to discipline because of \"individual, unconnected, non-criminal engagements and other activities that violate multiple department policies and the professional code of ethics.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond City Manager Bill Lindsay told KQED's Julie Small on Wednesday that specific disciplinary recommendations will be announced \"within days.\" Because of state laws protecting police privacy, individual officers will not be named.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/07/oakland-seeks-to-fire-4-police-officers-discipline-7-in-sexual-exploitation-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Libby Schaaf announced\u003c/a> the city is moving to fire four officers and place seven others on leave in the sexual exploitation scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Julie Small contributed to this post. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Jasmine Abuslin, 19, is now free to testify against officers charged with sexually exploiting her as a minor. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1474678326,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":805},"headData":{"title":"Teen at Center of Cop Sex Case Freed From Florida Jail, Returning to Bay Area | KQED","description":"Jasmine Abuslin, 19, is now free to testify against officers charged with sexually exploiting her as a minor. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Teen at Center of Cop Sex Case Freed From Florida Jail, Returning to Bay Area","datePublished":"2016-09-15T01:41:47.000Z","dateModified":"2016-09-24T00:52:06.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11088092 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11088092","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/14/teen-victim-in-cop-sex-case-freed-from-florida-jail-returning-to-bay-area/","disqusTitle":"Teen at Center of Cop Sex Case Freed From Florida Jail, Returning to Bay Area","nprStoryId":"494014523","path":"/news/11088092/teen-victim-in-cop-sex-case-freed-from-florida-jail-returning-to-bay-area","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The East Bay teenager at the center of a police sexual misconduct case was released from a Florida jail on Wednesday -- free to testify against police officers \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/09/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager/\" target=\"_blank\">charged last week\u003c/a> with exploiting her when she was a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nineteen-year-old Jasmine Abuslin -- previously known publicly as Celeste Guap -- appeared in a Martin County, Florida, court to plead no contest to a misdemeanor count of battery. The charge grew out of an altercation at a drug treatment facility to which she'd been sent by law enforcement officials in Richmond, a move that itself is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/09/08/richmond-police-launched-effort-to-send-celeste-guap-to-florida/\" target=\"_blank\">subject of controversy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin has reportedly told investigators that while working in the East Bay sex trade, she had sexual contact with as many as 30 law enforcement officers. Those officers were members of seven different agencies, apparently including the police departments in Oakland, Richmond, Livermore and San Francisco and the sheriff's offices in Alameda and Contra Costa counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Friday, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley announced her office was bringing charges against seven men, including five Oakland police officers, one from Livermore and a sheriff's deputy from Contra Costa County. The charges include oral copulation with a minor, engaging in an act of prostitution, obstruction of justice and unauthorized access to law enforcement computer systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin's attorney, Pamela Price, said that in addition to helping her client through criminal proceedings against the accused police officers, she and fellow lawyer Charles Bonner plan to sue the seven jurisdictions believed to be involved in the case. She said she also hopes that state and federal agencies will take over the investigation into sex trafficking involving police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin \"is not the only one\" who has been victimized, Price said. She alleged a \"network of police officers\" is involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You cannot have this many officers engaged in this conduct across jurisdictional lines without an internal network and communication amongst all of them,\" Price said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked repeatedly whether officers had paid Abuslin in exchange for sex, Price said, \"This child has been kidnapped, she has been placed in fear of her life, she has been held against her will in multiple locations in the Bay Area. So whether or not someone gave her a dollar or a dime is irrelevant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price said Abuslin had been trafficked since the age of 12 and decided to drop her pseudonym as part of moving on with her life after the exploitation case made her the center of often hostile attention on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Celeste Guap is dead,\" Price said during a press conference in Stuart, Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guap, Price said, was \"blasted all over the news with Kardashian-like celebrity status (and) was a victim of child sex trafficking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin, on the other hand, \"is a young woman who is going to find herself, who wants to become a veterinarian. She's going to go back to school, she's going to create a life that every young woman should have,\" Price said. \"Jasmine is going to have a second chance\" at life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonner told reporters that the legal team has arranged for Abuslin to receive medical and psychiatric treatment by specialists at Stanford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her charging announcement Friday, Alameda County DA O'Malley criticized Richmond authorities for sending the key witness in a sensitive case to Florida -- ostensibly for drug treatment that the prosecutor said was readily available in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price expanded upon that criticism Wednesday, saying that while she didn't know Richmond officials' motives, Abuslin is not drug-addicted and sending her out of state bore the appearance of witness tampering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She is a witness to criminal activity, a criminal conspiracy in the Bay Area,\" Price said. \"There is no reason or rhyme to why she is here in Stuart, Florida. And the fact that she was arrested in a matter of days, charged and jailed for 17 days on a felony charge is just mind-boggling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a report released earlier this week on his department's handling of the case, Richmond Police Chief Allwyn Brown rejected suggestions of a conspiracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Representations that we 'sent' this teenage witness away or had her 'removed' to Florida distort reality,\" Brown wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the chief added that several officers in the department could be subject to discipline because of \"individual, unconnected, non-criminal engagements and other activities that violate multiple department policies and the professional code of ethics.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond City Manager Bill Lindsay told KQED's Julie Small on Wednesday that specific disciplinary recommendations will be announced \"within days.\" Because of state laws protecting police privacy, individual officers will not be named.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/07/oakland-seeks-to-fire-4-police-officers-discipline-7-in-sexual-exploitation-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Libby Schaaf announced\u003c/a> the city is moving to fire four officers and place seven others on leave in the sexual exploitation scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Julie Small contributed to this post. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11088092/teen-victim-in-cop-sex-case-freed-from-florida-jail-returning-to-bay-area","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188"],"tags":["news_19708","news_19542","news_19934","news_416","news_19969"],"featImg":"news_11088411","label":"news_6944"},"news_11085660":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11085660","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11085660","score":null,"sort":[1473735552000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"police-chief-no-crimes-by-richmond-officers-in-sexual-exploitation-scandal","title":"Police Chief: No Crimes by Richmond Officers in Sexual Exploitation Scandal","publishDate":1473735552,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Newsroom | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":7052,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 9:45 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond Police Department's investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against 11 current and former officers found no criminal wrongdoing, according to a report provided by the city mayor's office Monday night. The probe, however, did find multiple violations of department policy that could lead to firings and other discipline for an unspecified number of officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond teen at the center of the broad scandal has said she had sexual contact with officers from several Bay Area law enforcement agencies. The now 19-year-old woman, who goes by the name Celeste Guap, had worked in the sex trade and appears to have been sexually exploited as a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the sexual contact with police officers occurred when she was underage, according to text messages and statements she shared with various Bay Area news outlets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"#anchor\">report\u003c/a>, signed by Richmond Police Chief Allwyn Brown, also addresses the Police Department and city's role in facilitating Guap's transfer to an addiction treatment facility in Florida, which has fueled speculation of a cover-up and stalled a neighboring county's \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/09/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager/\" target=\"_blank\">criminal prosecution of seven\u003c/a> current and former law enforcement officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department did not respond to KQED's requests for comment Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley announced that she intends to charge seven current and former police officers for their conduct related to Guap. Those pending charges include felony oral copulation with a minor against an Oakland police officer and a former Contra Costa County sheriff's deputy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Malley said Friday that her office's investigation had turned up potential crimes in San Francisco, San Joaquin and Contra Costa counties, but she has no authority to prosecute outside her own jurisdiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond Police Department's investigation focused only on Richmond officers and employees, and it uncovered no criminal wrongdoing, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Each case is unique. We found no conspiracies,\" Police Chief Brown wrote. \"The facts show individual, unconnected, non-criminal engagements and other activities that violate multiple Department policies and the professional Code of Ethics on the part of several RPD officers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond Police Department's findings will make up recommendations for discipline, according to the mayor's office, which will also include input from the city's Department of Human Resources. Richmond's city manager will make the final call on officer discipline, a representative of the mayor's office said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of advocacy groups have criticized Richmond's response and Guap's relocation to Florida, where she was recently arrested during an altercation at an addiction treatment facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was charged Monday with misdemeanor battery, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/09/12/celeste-guap-florida-prosecutor-drops-assault-charge-from-felony-to-misdemeanor/\" target=\"_blank\">East Bay Times\u003c/a>. O'Malley said last week that her office's prosecutions were held up because of Guap's unavailability, who she calls \"Ms. A.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were not consulted,” she said of the woman's departure to Florida. “We were not informed. And we protested once we learned she had been moved. We are now working to get Ms. A back here. And if the agency that sent her to Florida does not pay for her to come back, we will pay her airfare to come back to the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Characterizations that Richmond police \"'sent' this teenage witness away or had her 'removed' to Florida distort reality,\" Brown wrote, noting that Richmond \"did not pay for rehab or any related expense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guap's transfer to Florida followed her discussions with Richmond investigators about prior victimization unrelated to law enforcement sexual misconduct, according to the report. The Richmond Police Department's Domestic and Sexual Violence Unit supported her application to the California Victim Compensation Program for help with money for treatment, \"and it was ultimately funded,\" Brown wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond police investigators reviewed 10,000 text messages and cellphone records and 5,000 social media pages, according to the report. Their investigation included five recorded voluntary interviews with \"the teenage witness\" that spanned a total 13 hours. Investigators also contacted some 45 others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report does not include a detailed account of how many Richmond officers can expect discipline, and for what misconduct. The reason, according to Brown, is due to strict state law protections of police personnel information:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>All government employees have Fourth Amendment privacy protections granted by the US Constitution over their jobs -- and in California, police officers have a more detailed set of protections spelled out under The Public Safety Officers' Procedural Bill of Rights Act. Each separate violation of the Act results in a $25,000.00 fine.\u003cbr>\n[...]\u003cbr>\nAccordingly, I cannot provide a detailed accounting on corrective and or punitive recommendations affecting the subjects of our investigation. Recommendations vary in severity and span the graduated scale of options, and range from termination from employment to letters of reprimand and corrective counseling - all in proportion to the respective employees' sustained misconduct violation(s). The investigation also exonerated/eliminated some.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Richmond Police Chief Brown began his report with an apology for the embarrassment the allegations carry:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm sorry that the alleged misconduct of a few has brought embarrassment to the City and to the RPD -- embarrassment exacerbated by continuous news media coverage of the salacious Bay Area sex scandal news story,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond Police Department first learned that some of its officers might have been involved with the woman in mid-May. But state law prohibits the sharing of personnel investigations between agencies, \"so we had no named or accused employees to focus on at that time,\" Brown wrote, citing a \u003ca href=\"http://kron4.com/2016/05/23/kron4-investigation-oakland-police-sex-scandal-expands/\" target=\"_blank\">KRON4 story\u003c/a> from May 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown noted that the names of five Richmond officers allegedly involved in the scandal were published by the East Bay Times in a June 30 \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/06/30/opd-sex-scandal-sheriffs-deputy-resigns-richmond-officers-named/\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In interviews with this newspaper, Guap identified high-ranking Richmond police officers she had sex or sexual contact with after she turned 18 in August: Lt. Andre Hill, a department spokesman; Sgt. Armando Moreno, who has worked the graveyard shift; resource officers Jerred Tong and Terrance Jackson; and Sgt. Mike Rood.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Brown called the \"adult female teenager\" at the center of the scandal a \"self-admitted sex worker\" who confounded his department's efforts to protect her dignity with a \"lack of reticence to be so publicly braggadocious about her own behavior and health issues.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"anchor\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Various legal and other privacy restrictions apply, so we cannot offer a more granular public report on this personnel investigation,\" Brown wrote. \"We've strategically withheld certain details, not because we're trying to hide the truth, or hide from it but to protect privacy. Every public statement that we could make about this case invites more questions than we can answer without significant consequence. No criminal matters are at issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full report below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=323793639 key=key-JqwBycEEYO8AaMmAQaUk mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Julie Small of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This report was updated to make clear that while the Police Department's investigation uncovered no crimes, it did uncover various policy violations that could result in discipline.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Internal investigation focused on 11 current and former Richmond police officers, according to a report released Monday, and found some guilty of misconduct.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1474678358,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1185},"headData":{"title":"Police Chief: No Crimes by Richmond Officers in Sexual Exploitation Scandal | KQED","description":"Internal investigation focused on 11 current and former Richmond police officers, according to a report released Monday, and found some guilty of misconduct.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Police Chief: No Crimes by Richmond Officers in Sexual Exploitation Scandal","datePublished":"2016-09-13T02:59:12.000Z","dateModified":"2016-09-24T00:52:38.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11085660 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11085660","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/12/police-chief-no-crimes-by-richmond-officers-in-sexual-exploitation-scandal/","disqusTitle":"Police Chief: No Crimes by Richmond Officers in Sexual Exploitation Scandal","nprStoryId":"493702699","path":"/news/11085660/police-chief-no-crimes-by-richmond-officers-in-sexual-exploitation-scandal","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 9:45 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond Police Department's investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against 11 current and former officers found no criminal wrongdoing, according to a report provided by the city mayor's office Monday night. The probe, however, did find multiple violations of department policy that could lead to firings and other discipline for an unspecified number of officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond teen at the center of the broad scandal has said she had sexual contact with officers from several Bay Area law enforcement agencies. The now 19-year-old woman, who goes by the name Celeste Guap, had worked in the sex trade and appears to have been sexually exploited as a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the sexual contact with police officers occurred when she was underage, according to text messages and statements she shared with various Bay Area news outlets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"#anchor\">report\u003c/a>, signed by Richmond Police Chief Allwyn Brown, also addresses the Police Department and city's role in facilitating Guap's transfer to an addiction treatment facility in Florida, which has fueled speculation of a cover-up and stalled a neighboring county's \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/09/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager/\" target=\"_blank\">criminal prosecution of seven\u003c/a> current and former law enforcement officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department did not respond to KQED's requests for comment Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley announced that she intends to charge seven current and former police officers for their conduct related to Guap. Those pending charges include felony oral copulation with a minor against an Oakland police officer and a former Contra Costa County sheriff's deputy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Malley said Friday that her office's investigation had turned up potential crimes in San Francisco, San Joaquin and Contra Costa counties, but she has no authority to prosecute outside her own jurisdiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond Police Department's investigation focused only on Richmond officers and employees, and it uncovered no criminal wrongdoing, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Each case is unique. We found no conspiracies,\" Police Chief Brown wrote. \"The facts show individual, unconnected, non-criminal engagements and other activities that violate multiple Department policies and the professional Code of Ethics on the part of several RPD officers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond Police Department's findings will make up recommendations for discipline, according to the mayor's office, which will also include input from the city's Department of Human Resources. Richmond's city manager will make the final call on officer discipline, a representative of the mayor's office said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of advocacy groups have criticized Richmond's response and Guap's relocation to Florida, where she was recently arrested during an altercation at an addiction treatment facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was charged Monday with misdemeanor battery, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/09/12/celeste-guap-florida-prosecutor-drops-assault-charge-from-felony-to-misdemeanor/\" target=\"_blank\">East Bay Times\u003c/a>. O'Malley said last week that her office's prosecutions were held up because of Guap's unavailability, who she calls \"Ms. A.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were not consulted,” she said of the woman's departure to Florida. “We were not informed. And we protested once we learned she had been moved. We are now working to get Ms. A back here. And if the agency that sent her to Florida does not pay for her to come back, we will pay her airfare to come back to the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Characterizations that Richmond police \"'sent' this teenage witness away or had her 'removed' to Florida distort reality,\" Brown wrote, noting that Richmond \"did not pay for rehab or any related expense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guap's transfer to Florida followed her discussions with Richmond investigators about prior victimization unrelated to law enforcement sexual misconduct, according to the report. The Richmond Police Department's Domestic and Sexual Violence Unit supported her application to the California Victim Compensation Program for help with money for treatment, \"and it was ultimately funded,\" Brown wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond police investigators reviewed 10,000 text messages and cellphone records and 5,000 social media pages, according to the report. Their investigation included five recorded voluntary interviews with \"the teenage witness\" that spanned a total 13 hours. Investigators also contacted some 45 others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report does not include a detailed account of how many Richmond officers can expect discipline, and for what misconduct. The reason, according to Brown, is due to strict state law protections of police personnel information:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>All government employees have Fourth Amendment privacy protections granted by the US Constitution over their jobs -- and in California, police officers have a more detailed set of protections spelled out under The Public Safety Officers' Procedural Bill of Rights Act. Each separate violation of the Act results in a $25,000.00 fine.\u003cbr>\n[...]\u003cbr>\nAccordingly, I cannot provide a detailed accounting on corrective and or punitive recommendations affecting the subjects of our investigation. Recommendations vary in severity and span the graduated scale of options, and range from termination from employment to letters of reprimand and corrective counseling - all in proportion to the respective employees' sustained misconduct violation(s). The investigation also exonerated/eliminated some.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Richmond Police Chief Brown began his report with an apology for the embarrassment the allegations carry:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm sorry that the alleged misconduct of a few has brought embarrassment to the City and to the RPD -- embarrassment exacerbated by continuous news media coverage of the salacious Bay Area sex scandal news story,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond Police Department first learned that some of its officers might have been involved with the woman in mid-May. But state law prohibits the sharing of personnel investigations between agencies, \"so we had no named or accused employees to focus on at that time,\" Brown wrote, citing a \u003ca href=\"http://kron4.com/2016/05/23/kron4-investigation-oakland-police-sex-scandal-expands/\" target=\"_blank\">KRON4 story\u003c/a> from May 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown noted that the names of five Richmond officers allegedly involved in the scandal were published by the East Bay Times in a June 30 \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/06/30/opd-sex-scandal-sheriffs-deputy-resigns-richmond-officers-named/\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In interviews with this newspaper, Guap identified high-ranking Richmond police officers she had sex or sexual contact with after she turned 18 in August: Lt. Andre Hill, a department spokesman; Sgt. Armando Moreno, who has worked the graveyard shift; resource officers Jerred Tong and Terrance Jackson; and Sgt. Mike Rood.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Brown called the \"adult female teenager\" at the center of the scandal a \"self-admitted sex worker\" who confounded his department's efforts to protect her dignity with a \"lack of reticence to be so publicly braggadocious about her own behavior and health issues.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"anchor\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Various legal and other privacy restrictions apply, so we cannot offer a more granular public report on this personnel investigation,\" Brown wrote. \"We've strategically withheld certain details, not because we're trying to hide the truth, or hide from it but to protect privacy. Every public statement that we could make about this case invites more questions than we can answer without significant consequence. No criminal matters are at issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full report below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ciframe\n class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\"\n src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/323793639/content?start_page=1&view_mode=&access_key=key-JqwBycEEYO8AaMmAQaUk\"\n title=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/323793639\"\n data-auto-height=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"scribd_323793639\"\n width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n \u003ca class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__scribdShortcode__scribd_footer\"\n href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/323793639\"\n target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View this document on Scribd\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Julie Small of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This report was updated to make clear that while the Police Department's investigation uncovered no crimes, it did uncover various policy violations that could result in discipline.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11085660/police-chief-no-crimes-by-richmond-officers-in-sexual-exploitation-scandal","authors":["3206","8626"],"programs":["news_6944","news_7052"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_19663","news_19708","news_19969","news_19662"],"featImg":"news_11085718","label":"news_7052"},"news_11080955":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11080955","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11080955","score":null,"sort":[1473449223000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager","title":"Alameda County To Charge 7 Cops With Sexually Exploiting Teenager","publishDate":1473449223,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley announced Friday that her office is filing criminal charges against seven current and former East Bay police officers for the alleged sexual exploitation of a teenager from Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current and former officers, including five from the Oakland Police Department, one from the Livermore Police Department and one from the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office, face a range of charges, including oral copulation with a minor, engaging in a lewd act in a public place, engaging in an act of prostitution, obstruction of justice and unauthorized access to law enforcement computer systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Malley said in a noon press conference in Oakland that the investigation was exhaustive in its search for evidence and that \"every resource has been expended in uncovering that truth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The victim, now 19, goes by the name of Celeste Guap. O'Malley referred to her as \"Ms. A.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney said that the investigation, which reviewed nearly 150,000 social media messages, pictures and texts, found no evidence that any of the officers had engaged in sexual acts with Ms. A while they were on duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that no evidence surfaced that Ms. A ever had personal contact with Oakland police Officer Brendan O'Brien, who reportedly mentioned being involved with the teenager in a suicide note found after he took his own life a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Malley said charges are being filed against:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Ricardo Perez, Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office (resigned): one count of oral copulation with a minor (felony) and one count of engaging in a lewd act in a public place (misdemeanor).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dan Black, Livermore Police Department (resigned): two counts of engaging in an act of prostitution, two counts of engaging in lewd acts in a public place (all misdemeanors).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Brian Bunton, Oakland Police Department: one count of obstruction of justice (felony) and one count of engaging in an act of prostitution (misdemeanor).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Terryl Smith, Oakland Police Department (resigned): Four counts of unauthorized access to a criminal justice computer system (misdemeanors). O'Malley said investigators believe Smith had sexual contact with Ms. A in Contra Costa County, which is outside her office's jurisdiction. Earlier this year, Contra Costa County authorities declined to bring charges against Smith.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Warit Utappa: One count of unauthorized access to a criminal justice computer system (misdemeanor). O'Malley said investigators believe Smith had sexual contact with Ms. A in Contra Costa County, which is outside her office's jurisdiction.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Leroy Johnson, Oakland Police Department (retired): One count of failing to report sexual misconduct involving a minor.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Giovani LoVerde, Oakland Police Department: One count of oral copulation with a minor (felony).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In a series of interviews with police investigators and in media interviews, Ms. A had alleged having sexual contact with 30 or more officers. News accounts included text messages between Ms. A and men identified as police officers. Many Bay Area law enforcement officers had become her friends on Facebook -- including \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/14/at-least-2-dozen-sfpd-officers-tied-to-teen-at-center-of-sexual-exploitation/\" target=\"_blank\">at least two dozen\u003c/a> from San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But O'Malley said the available evidence, obtained in interviews with Ms. A and other witnesses as well as from the voluminous social media and electronic records, failed to support charges against more officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We determined that the extrinsic evidence contradicts or sheds reasonable doubt on allegations of criminal conduct, such as serious inconsistencies in the statements taken from the witness or contradictions between the witness's statements and the social media messaging,\" O'Malley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Malley also emphasized the victim's participation will be crucial to the prosecution of the charged officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond Police Department -- one of the law enforcement agencies whose officers have been accused of involvement with Ms. A -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/09/08/richmond-police-launched-effort-to-send-celeste-guap-to-florida/\" target=\"_blank\">arranged to send her \u003c/a>to a rehab facility in Florida last month. She's now in jail there facing battery charges stemming from an altercation at the treatment facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Malley criticized Richmond officials for failing to notify her office of its plans to send the key witness in the case out of state, especially when she could have been treated someplace in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were not consulted,\" she said. \"We were not informed. And we protested once we learned she had been moved. We are now working to get Ms. A back here. And if the agency that sent her to Florida does not pay for her to come back, we will pay her airfare to come back to the state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/07/oakland-seeks-to-fire-4-police-officers-discipline-7-in-sexual-exploitation-scandal/\">Oakland officials announced\u003c/a> they're moving to fire four officers and discipline seven others in connection with the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegations that dozens of officers in Oakland and elsewhere had exploited a teenager working in the sex trade triggered a period of unprecedented turmoil in a department that has had more than its share of scandals and embarrassments in the last couple of decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Sean Whent’s handling of the case is believed to have led directly to his \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/09/sean-whent-out-as-oakland-police-chief-reports-say/\" target=\"_blank\">abrupt resignation\u003c/a> in June, a move that was followed by the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\">appointment and departure\u003c/a> of two interim chiefs within an eight-day span. The Police Department is currently under the control of City Administrator Sabrina Landreth until the city hires a permanent chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a breaking story and will be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Charges against officers in Oakland, Livermore and Contra Costa County come after scandal involving several law enforcement agencies. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1474677995,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":879},"headData":{"title":"Alameda County To Charge 7 Cops With Sexually Exploiting Teenager | KQED","description":"Charges against officers in Oakland, Livermore and Contra Costa County come after scandal involving several law enforcement agencies. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Alameda County To Charge 7 Cops With Sexually Exploiting Teenager","datePublished":"2016-09-09T19:27:03.000Z","dateModified":"2016-09-24T00:46:35.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11080955 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11080955","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/09/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager/","disqusTitle":"Alameda County To Charge 7 Cops With Sexually Exploiting Teenager","nprStoryId":"493312550","path":"/news/11080955/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley announced Friday that her office is filing criminal charges against seven current and former East Bay police officers for the alleged sexual exploitation of a teenager from Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current and former officers, including five from the Oakland Police Department, one from the Livermore Police Department and one from the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office, face a range of charges, including oral copulation with a minor, engaging in a lewd act in a public place, engaging in an act of prostitution, obstruction of justice and unauthorized access to law enforcement computer systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Malley said in a noon press conference in Oakland that the investigation was exhaustive in its search for evidence and that \"every resource has been expended in uncovering that truth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The victim, now 19, goes by the name of Celeste Guap. O'Malley referred to her as \"Ms. A.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney said that the investigation, which reviewed nearly 150,000 social media messages, pictures and texts, found no evidence that any of the officers had engaged in sexual acts with Ms. A while they were on duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that no evidence surfaced that Ms. A ever had personal contact with Oakland police Officer Brendan O'Brien, who reportedly mentioned being involved with the teenager in a suicide note found after he took his own life a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Malley said charges are being filed against:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Ricardo Perez, Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office (resigned): one count of oral copulation with a minor (felony) and one count of engaging in a lewd act in a public place (misdemeanor).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dan Black, Livermore Police Department (resigned): two counts of engaging in an act of prostitution, two counts of engaging in lewd acts in a public place (all misdemeanors).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Brian Bunton, Oakland Police Department: one count of obstruction of justice (felony) and one count of engaging in an act of prostitution (misdemeanor).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Terryl Smith, Oakland Police Department (resigned): Four counts of unauthorized access to a criminal justice computer system (misdemeanors). O'Malley said investigators believe Smith had sexual contact with Ms. A in Contra Costa County, which is outside her office's jurisdiction. Earlier this year, Contra Costa County authorities declined to bring charges against Smith.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Warit Utappa: One count of unauthorized access to a criminal justice computer system (misdemeanor). O'Malley said investigators believe Smith had sexual contact with Ms. A in Contra Costa County, which is outside her office's jurisdiction.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Leroy Johnson, Oakland Police Department (retired): One count of failing to report sexual misconduct involving a minor.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Giovani LoVerde, Oakland Police Department: One count of oral copulation with a minor (felony).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In a series of interviews with police investigators and in media interviews, Ms. A had alleged having sexual contact with 30 or more officers. News accounts included text messages between Ms. A and men identified as police officers. Many Bay Area law enforcement officers had become her friends on Facebook -- including \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/14/at-least-2-dozen-sfpd-officers-tied-to-teen-at-center-of-sexual-exploitation/\" target=\"_blank\">at least two dozen\u003c/a> from San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But O'Malley said the available evidence, obtained in interviews with Ms. A and other witnesses as well as from the voluminous social media and electronic records, failed to support charges against more officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We determined that the extrinsic evidence contradicts or sheds reasonable doubt on allegations of criminal conduct, such as serious inconsistencies in the statements taken from the witness or contradictions between the witness's statements and the social media messaging,\" O'Malley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Malley also emphasized the victim's participation will be crucial to the prosecution of the charged officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond Police Department -- one of the law enforcement agencies whose officers have been accused of involvement with Ms. A -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/09/08/richmond-police-launched-effort-to-send-celeste-guap-to-florida/\" target=\"_blank\">arranged to send her \u003c/a>to a rehab facility in Florida last month. She's now in jail there facing battery charges stemming from an altercation at the treatment facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Malley criticized Richmond officials for failing to notify her office of its plans to send the key witness in the case out of state, especially when she could have been treated someplace in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were not consulted,\" she said. \"We were not informed. And we protested once we learned she had been moved. We are now working to get Ms. A back here. And if the agency that sent her to Florida does not pay for her to come back, we will pay her airfare to come back to the state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/07/oakland-seeks-to-fire-4-police-officers-discipline-7-in-sexual-exploitation-scandal/\">Oakland officials announced\u003c/a> they're moving to fire four officers and discipline seven others in connection with the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegations that dozens of officers in Oakland and elsewhere had exploited a teenager working in the sex trade triggered a period of unprecedented turmoil in a department that has had more than its share of scandals and embarrassments in the last couple of decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Sean Whent’s handling of the case is believed to have led directly to his \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/09/sean-whent-out-as-oakland-police-chief-reports-say/\" target=\"_blank\">abrupt resignation\u003c/a> in June, a move that was followed by the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\">appointment and departure\u003c/a> of two interim chiefs within an eight-day span. The Police Department is currently under the control of City Administrator Sabrina Landreth until the city hires a permanent chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a breaking story and will be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11080955/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager","authors":["3206","222"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188"],"tags":["news_19708","news_19542","news_416","news_19969"],"featImg":"news_11081439","label":"news_6944"},"news_11046180":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11046180","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11046180","score":null,"sort":[1470866774000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sfpd-proposes-social-media-policy-following-sexual-exploitation-scandal","title":"SFPD Proposes Social Media Policy Following Sexual Exploitation Scandal","publishDate":1470866774,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department and labor union representing its officers have agreed on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/320680712/SFPD-Final-Draft-Social-Media-Policy\" target=\"_blank\">policy\u003c/a> governing social media use by city police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed department general order comes following a sexual exploitation scandal involving several Bay Area law enforcement agencies and dozens of law enforcement officers alleged to have had sex with a woman who works in the sex trade and was trafficked as a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/277742139\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many interactions between \"Celeste Guap\" and officers originated on social media, including ones with more than two-dozen current and retired SFPD officers uncovered by a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/14/at-least-2-dozen-sfpd-officers-tied-to-teen-at-center-of-sexual-exploitation/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED investigation\u003c/a>. Guap said via text message that she had sex with three current SFPD officers and \"planned to sleep with a few more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Examiner \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-police-investigating-second-officer-link-oakland-sex-trafficking-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">identified\u003c/a> one of those officers as Rodger Ponce De Leon. Guap later \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/new-allegations-surface-sfpd-officer-investigated-link-sex-worker/\" target=\"_blank\">told the newspaper\u003c/a> she had sex and shared cocaine with Ponce De Leon before she turned 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department's new policy was in the works since sometime last year -- after a series of racist and homophobic text messages swapped by SFPD officers came to light, and long before the scandal that precipitated resignations of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\">three Oakland police chiefs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the sexual exploitation scandal centered in Oakland accelerated San Francisco's effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve seen the situation in Oakland, we saw the situation in our own department through some of the hideous text messages that were being sent back and forth,\" said Gary Delagnes, former president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association. He's currently a political consultant for the union, and he was part of negotiations over the social media policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody was kind of on the same page on this one,\" Delagnes said. \"You can’t give the appearance to the public that this is the way we act or the way we think.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delagnes and a Police Department spokesman said the sexual exploitation scandal played no role in development of the policy. Several provisions, however, appear to address it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Members are prohibited from any use of personal social media to contact or communicate (e.g., “friending”, “following”, messaging, etc.) with witnesses, crime victims, or any person under the age of 18 who members interact with through the course of their official duties with the Department. Such contacts or communications on social media could impair the member’s capacity to perform his or her duties or jeopardize an ongoing investigation or criminal case. All such contacts and communications shall be done through Department authorized methods and channels (e.g., Department email, etc.). These restrictions do not apply to communications with relatives of Department members that members have a relationship with outside the Department.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Golden Gate University law professor Peter Keane -- who is also a member of the San Francisco Ethics Commission and a former police commissioner -- said the new policy makes it clear that some of the interactions officers had with Guap on Facebook were inappropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The department has addressed that issue in this memo and in regard to the kind of activity that we know of that those police officers were involved in with this young woman,\" Keane said. \"Much of that activity on their part violated provisions of this memo.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current Police Commissioner Victor Hwang also said that section of the policy appears to be in response to Guap's apparent sexual exploitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This all kind of seems like common sense,\" Hwang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Department representatives noted a balancing act between addressing officers' conduct on social media while respecting officers' First Amendment rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Particularly in a sensitive type of employment like being a police officer,\" Keane said, \"which has so much power and has so many implications for the community at large, the Police Department can as a reasonable condition of employment require you to have a limitation on your First Amendment expression that a regular citizen doesn't have.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delagnes agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're in a position of power such as a police officer, you cannot be doing these things on social media, even if it is tongue-in-cheek,\" he said. \"Those days are over. You cannot do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delagnes said \"where cops' First Amendment rights start and end\" is part of a national debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of this stuff may end up at the Supreme Court,\" he said, adding that the union recognizes that the landscape of law enforcement has changed. He said it's clear that \"locker room banter\" won't be tolerated from police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because of the nature of our job and what's going on in the world, that banter can't happen anymore,\" Delagnes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Commission is tentatively scheduled to give the policy a final vote Sept. 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read it below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=320680712 key=key-QYtdkER6ffYJqmuB7Ci2 mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The policy has been in the works since the SFPD's racist texting scandal broke last year, but alleged sexual exploitation involving social media accelerated the effort.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1474678391,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":831},"headData":{"title":"SFPD Proposes Social Media Policy Following Sexual Exploitation Scandal | KQED","description":"The policy has been in the works since the SFPD's racist texting scandal broke last year, but alleged sexual exploitation involving social media accelerated the effort.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"SFPD Proposes Social Media Policy Following Sexual Exploitation Scandal","datePublished":"2016-08-10T22:06:14.000Z","dateModified":"2016-09-24T00:53:11.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11046180 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11046180","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/10/sfpd-proposes-social-media-policy-following-sexual-exploitation-scandal/","disqusTitle":"SFPD Proposes Social Media Policy Following Sexual Exploitation Scandal","nprStoryId":"495263178","path":"/news/11046180/sfpd-proposes-social-media-policy-following-sexual-exploitation-scandal","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department and labor union representing its officers have agreed on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/320680712/SFPD-Final-Draft-Social-Media-Policy\" target=\"_blank\">policy\u003c/a> governing social media use by city police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed department general order comes following a sexual exploitation scandal involving several Bay Area law enforcement agencies and dozens of law enforcement officers alleged to have had sex with a woman who works in the sex trade and was trafficked as a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/277742139&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/277742139'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many interactions between \"Celeste Guap\" and officers originated on social media, including ones with more than two-dozen current and retired SFPD officers uncovered by a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/14/at-least-2-dozen-sfpd-officers-tied-to-teen-at-center-of-sexual-exploitation/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED investigation\u003c/a>. Guap said via text message that she had sex with three current SFPD officers and \"planned to sleep with a few more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Examiner \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-police-investigating-second-officer-link-oakland-sex-trafficking-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">identified\u003c/a> one of those officers as Rodger Ponce De Leon. Guap later \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/new-allegations-surface-sfpd-officer-investigated-link-sex-worker/\" target=\"_blank\">told the newspaper\u003c/a> she had sex and shared cocaine with Ponce De Leon before she turned 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department's new policy was in the works since sometime last year -- after a series of racist and homophobic text messages swapped by SFPD officers came to light, and long before the scandal that precipitated resignations of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\">three Oakland police chiefs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the sexual exploitation scandal centered in Oakland accelerated San Francisco's effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve seen the situation in Oakland, we saw the situation in our own department through some of the hideous text messages that were being sent back and forth,\" said Gary Delagnes, former president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association. He's currently a political consultant for the union, and he was part of negotiations over the social media policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody was kind of on the same page on this one,\" Delagnes said. \"You can’t give the appearance to the public that this is the way we act or the way we think.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delagnes and a Police Department spokesman said the sexual exploitation scandal played no role in development of the policy. Several provisions, however, appear to address it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Members are prohibited from any use of personal social media to contact or communicate (e.g., “friending”, “following”, messaging, etc.) with witnesses, crime victims, or any person under the age of 18 who members interact with through the course of their official duties with the Department. Such contacts or communications on social media could impair the member’s capacity to perform his or her duties or jeopardize an ongoing investigation or criminal case. All such contacts and communications shall be done through Department authorized methods and channels (e.g., Department email, etc.). These restrictions do not apply to communications with relatives of Department members that members have a relationship with outside the Department.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Golden Gate University law professor Peter Keane -- who is also a member of the San Francisco Ethics Commission and a former police commissioner -- said the new policy makes it clear that some of the interactions officers had with Guap on Facebook were inappropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The department has addressed that issue in this memo and in regard to the kind of activity that we know of that those police officers were involved in with this young woman,\" Keane said. \"Much of that activity on their part violated provisions of this memo.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current Police Commissioner Victor Hwang also said that section of the policy appears to be in response to Guap's apparent sexual exploitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This all kind of seems like common sense,\" Hwang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Department representatives noted a balancing act between addressing officers' conduct on social media while respecting officers' First Amendment rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Particularly in a sensitive type of employment like being a police officer,\" Keane said, \"which has so much power and has so many implications for the community at large, the Police Department can as a reasonable condition of employment require you to have a limitation on your First Amendment expression that a regular citizen doesn't have.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delagnes agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're in a position of power such as a police officer, you cannot be doing these things on social media, even if it is tongue-in-cheek,\" he said. \"Those days are over. You cannot do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delagnes said \"where cops' First Amendment rights start and end\" is part of a national debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of this stuff may end up at the Supreme Court,\" he said, adding that the union recognizes that the landscape of law enforcement has changed. 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At different times, she has defined herself as both a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hiS0uXl7RY\">sex worker\u003c/a> and as a \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/06/10/kpix-exclusive-teenage-woman-oakland-police-sex-scandal-speaks/\">victim\u003c/a>. And legal definitions of minors involved in the sex industry also contradict each other. Under \u003ca href=\"http://www.state.gov/j/tip/laws/\">federal law\u003c/a>, all minors involved in the sex industry are seen as victims of sex trafficking. But in California, minors can still be arrested for prostitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maxine Doogan, president of the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://esplerp.org/\">Sex Workers and Erotic Service Provider Legal, Educational and Research Project\u003c/a>, advises many people in the local sex industry and knows Celeste Guap. She said the criminalization of sex work sets up an imbalance of power between police and people involved in the sex industry. This, she said, is what left Guap open to exploitation.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the heart of it is that she was concerned about being arrested for prostitution,” Doogan said. “And so she devised upon a plan to protect herself that involved having sex with the police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hiS0uXl7RY\">interview\u003c/a> with video blogger Zennie Abraham, Guap said that decriminalizing prostitution would lead to greater regulation and safer working conditions for those in the sex industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, Alameda County, where dozens of cops are currently under investigation for their alleged involvement with Guap, has been central to a statewide movement to fight sex trafficking and increase penalties for traffickers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County District Attorney \u003ca href=\"http://www.alcoda.org/\">Nancy O’Malley\u003c/a>’s office leads the state in prosecuting human traffickers. And over the past 10 years, the District Attorney’s Human Exploitation and Trafficking Unit has achieved an \u003ca href=\"http://toolkit.heatwatch.org/files/Toolkit_Exec_Summary_compressed.pdf\">81 percent\u003c/a> conviction rate for trafficking prosecutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Malley was one of the chief proponents of California’s 2012 Ban on Human Trafficking and Sex Slavery -- or \u003ca href=\"http://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2012/general/pdf/35-title-summ-analysis.pdf\">Proposition 35\u003c/a>. Passing with more that 80 percent of the vote, it was the most successful ballot initiative in state history. O’Malley backed the law as a way to get at what she calls the human side of human trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people are not literally forced, like dragged off the street and forced into it ... though some are,” O’Malley said. “Many of the young people that we’ve seen have been coerced, or ... you know, so this fake promise of love which is anything but that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative ramped up punishments for trafficking. Sex trafficking a minor even without force is now punishable by up to 12 years in prison. With force, it can be a life sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The punishment is harsh,” O’Malley said. “And that has to be a deterrent to some who say, ‘Hmm, do I really want to go to prison for 15 years because I’m now trafficking a 14-year-old?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, O’Malley considers the law a success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.rti.org/expert/alexandra-lutnick\">Alexandra Lutnick\u003c/a>, a researcher with nonprofit RTI International who has been studying the commercial sex industry for years, said Prop. 35 has been very problematic. The law assumes that people respond rationally to heavy penalties, she said, and simply stop engaging in deviant behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have plenty of examples of other social issues where that just doesn’t work,” she said. “We can look at the war on drugs for a perfect example of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lutnick said cracking down on the underground sex industry doesn’t address victims’ needs -- the things that make them vulnerable to exploitation like poverty, lack of housing, education and racism. And she said criminalization of sex work gives some police the power to take advantage of young people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Police become one exploiter, perhaps of many, in these people’s lives, so that could be physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse and taking advantage,” Lutnick said. “So it’s, ‘Oh well, if you do this I won’t arrest you or I’ll give you this information in exchange for that.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Malley said she doesn’t know if the sexual exploitation scandal, which her office is investigating, points to a broader failure of culture within the police departments. But she said any officers who took advantage of their authority and exploited Celeste Guap have set back law enforcement’s efforts to gain trust in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those people need to be removed,” she said. “And they need to be removed swiftly. And if they’ve committed the crime, they need to be prosecuted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Malley says tough anti-trafficking laws are necessary to protect young people, and that most police don’t abuse their authority. But she does support \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_1301-1350/sb_1322_cfa_20160509_102137_sen_comm.html\">legislation\u003c/a>, currently making its way through the state Legislature, which would decriminalize minors’ involvement in commercial sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look at every one of those young people as a victim of somebody else’s exploitation,” she said. “Whether it’s human trafficking or sexual exploitation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will be up to O’Malley to decide whether to charge the police officers involved with Guap as sex traffickers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED partnered with Youth Radio on a \u003ca href=\"https://youthradio.org/news/article/youth-advocates-react-to-oakland-police-sex-allegations/\">related story,\u003c/a> looking at how youth service providers reacted to the allegations of police misconduct. Two Youth Radio reporters also appeared recently on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/\">KQED Newsroom\u003c/a> to talk about how they have covered a stretch of International Boulevard in Oakland that serves as a red-light district.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A sexual exploitation scandal involving multiple police agencies has some questioning how well police can combat sex trafficking and prostitution.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1469751830,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1031},"headData":{"title":"How Well Is Law Enforcement Able to Address Sex Trafficking? | KQED","description":"A sexual exploitation scandal involving multiple police agencies has some questioning how well police can combat sex trafficking and prostitution.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"How Well Is Law Enforcement Able to Address Sex Trafficking?","datePublished":"2016-07-29T00:23:50.000Z","dateModified":"2016-07-29T00:23:50.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11026988 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11026988","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/28/how-well-is-law-enforcement-able-to-address-sex-trafficking/","disqusTitle":"How Well Is Law Enforcement Able to Address Sex Trafficking?","path":"/news/11026988/how-well-is-law-enforcement-able-to-address-sex-trafficking","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/badge-of-dishonor-top-oakland-police-department-officials-looked-away-as-east-bay-cops-sexually-exploited-and-trafficked-a-teenagerdepartmen/Content?oid=4832543\">sexual exploitation scandal\u003c/a> that has launched investigations into misconduct across multiple Bay Area police agencies has some questioning how well law enforcement is positioned to combat sex trafficking and prostitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, about 30 police officers are alleged to have had some form of sexual contact with the young woman known as Celeste Guap, who told \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/badge-of-dishonor-top-oakland-police-department-officials-looked-away-as-east-bay-cops-sexually-exploited-and-trafficked-a-teenagerdepartmen/Content?oid=4832543&showFullText=true\">reporters\u003c/a> she had sex with some officers when she was only 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/275645783&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/275645783'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While no one disputes the illegality of statutory rape, the media have \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/Teen-in-police-scandal-is-a-victim-not-a-sex-8381394.php\">struggled\u003c/a> with how to define Guap. 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