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Press investigation has found a permissive and toxic culture at the Bay Area lockup, enabling years of sexual misconduct by predatory employees and cover-ups that have largely kept the abuse out of the public eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP obtained internal federal Bureau of Prisons documents, statements and recordings from incarcerated people, interviewed current and former prison employees and those incarcerated and reviewed thousands of pages of court records from criminal and civil cases involving Dublin prison staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Together, they detail how incarcerated people's allegations against members of the mostly male staff were ignored or set aside, how prisoners could be sent to solitary confinement for reporting abuse and how officials in charge of preventing and investigating sexual misconduct were themselves accused of abusing incarcerated people or neglecting their concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one instance, an incarcerated woman said a man, who was her prison work supervisor, taunted her by remarking “let the games begin” when he assigned her to work with a maintenance foreman she accused of rape. Another worker claimed he wanted to get inmates pregnant. The warden — the man in charge at Dublin — kept nude photos on his government-issued cellphone of a woman he is accused of assaulting.[pullquote]One incarcerated woman said she was 'overwhelmed with fear, anxiety, and anger, and cried uncontrollably' after enduring abuse and retaliation at Dublin.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One incarcerated woman said she was “overwhelmed with fear, anxiety, and anger, and cried uncontrollably” after enduring abuse and retaliation at Dublin. Another said she contemplated suicide when her cries for help went unheeded and now suffers from severe anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A culture of misconduct\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>All sexual activity between a prison worker and an incarcerated person is illegal. Correctional employees enjoy substantial power over those incarcerated, controlling every aspect of their lives from mealtime to lights out, and there is no scenario in which an incarcerated person can give consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegations at Dublin, which so far have resulted in four arrests, are endemic of a larger problem within the beleaguered Bureau of Prisons. In 2020, the same year some of the women at Dublin complained, there were 422 complaints of staff-on-inmate sexual abuse across the system of 122 prisons and 153,000 incarcerated people. The agency said it substantiated only four of those complaints and that 290 are still being investigated. It would not say whether the allegations were concentrated in women’s prisons or spread throughout the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A hotbed of corruption and misconduct, the federal prison system has been plagued by myriad crises in recent years, including \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/federal-prisons-5be574b4103a2f5420e0d9da2daf5c9c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">widespread criminal activity among employees\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-prisons-government-and-politics-88fff925b1901a36a10581c28d826916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">critically low staffing levels\u003c/a> that have \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/only-on-ap-suicides-business-prisons-government-and-politics-0eba20833af541730b5e71bc4d2efbfe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hampered responses to emergencies\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-health-ap-top-news-politics-florida-724ee94ac5ba37b4df33c417f2bf78a2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rapid spread of COVID-19\u003c/a>, a failed response to the pandemic and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-prisons-prison-breaks-business-c1979d6ad6e7b3531968dab0e61eb22d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dozens of escapes\u003c/a>. Last month, the embattled director, Michael Carvajal, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-crime-prisons-arrests-efaf6fd8bbfe78b1124e64c08a5537ce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced he was resigning\u003c/a>. On Monday, two incarcerated people were killed in a gang clash at a federal penitentiary in Texas, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/texas-prison-fight-federal-lockdown-a0e7b61c5bdc5bbc25a691cc0a6920ba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prompting a nationwide lockdown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP contacted lawyers for every Dublin prison employee charged with sexual abuse or named as a defendant in a lawsuit alleging abuse, and tried reaching the men directly through available phone numbers and email addresses. None responded to interview requests. A government lawyer representing one of the men being sued declined comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thahesha Jusino, taking over as Dublin’s warden at the end of the month, promised to “work tirelessly to reaffirm the Bureau of Prisons’ zero tolerance for sexual abuse and sexual harassment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the agency is fully cooperating with the Justice Department’s inspector general on active investigations and noted that a “vast majority” of these cases were referred for investigation by the Bureau of Prisons itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am committed to ensuring the safety of our inmates, staff, and the public,” Jusino said in a statement to the AP. “A culture of misconduct, or actions not representative of the BOP’s Core Values will not be tolerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department said in a statement that “[z]ero tolerance means exactly that. The Justice Department is committed to both holding accountable any staff who violate their position of trust and to preventing these crimes from happening in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A criminal investigation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>FCI Dublin, which is 20 miles east of Oakland, was opened in 1974. It was converted in 2012 to one of six women-only facilities in the federal prison system. Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman both served time there for their involvement in a college admissions bribery scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Feb. 1, it had about 750 incarcerated people, many serving sentences for drug crimes. There are increasingly more women behind bars but they are still a minority — only about 6.5% of the overall federal inmate population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union officials say the vast majority of Dublin employees are honest and hardworking, and are upset that the allegations and actions of some workers have tarnished the prison’s reputation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a diversified staff. We have veterans. We have ex-law enforcement. We have good people, and they’re very traumatized,” Dublin union president Ed Canales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incarcerated people and prison workers who spoke to the AP did not want their names published for fear of retaliation. The AP also does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they grant permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women made the first internal complaints to staff members about five years ago, court records and internal agency documents show, but it’s not clear whether those complaints ever went anywhere. The women say they were largely ignored, and the abuse continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One incarcerated woman who reported a 2017 sexual assault said she was told nothing would be done about her complaint because it was a “he said-she said.” The woman, who is now suing the Bureau of Prisons over her treatment, said she was fired from her prison commissary job as retaliation. When she went to report her firing, she said a Dublin counselor took her abuser’s side, responding: “Child, do you want him to lose his job?” The woman was moved to a different prison a week later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, another Dublin incarcerated woman sued — first on her own with handwritten papers, then with the backing of a powerful San Francisco law firm — alleging that a maintenance foreman repeatedly raped her and that other workers facilitated the abuse and mocked her for it. When an internal prison investigator finally caught wind of what was happening, the woman said she was the one who got punished with three months in solitary confinement and a transfer to a federal prison in Alabama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2020, another incarcerated woman's report that Dublin workers were abusing inmates broke through to the Justice Department’s inspector general and the FBI, triggering a criminal investigation that has led to the arrest of four employees, including former warden \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/prisons-california-san-francisco-sexual-abuse-e9b0b3c8bf508bafc66399c95c02a1df\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ray J. Garcia\u003c/a>, in the past seven months. They each face up to 15 years in prison, though in other recent cases, sentences have ranged from three months to two years. [pullquote size=\"large\"]The FBI said Friday that it is continuing to investigate and is looking for anyone who may have been victimized to come forward and speak with agents.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of the men are expected to plead guilty in the coming weeks in federal court to charges of sexual abuse of a ward. None of the men accused in civil suits has been charged with a crime. Several Dublin workers are under investigation, though it’s not clear whether the men accused in the civil suits are among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI said Friday that it is continuing to investigate and is looking for anyone who may have been victimized to come forward and speak with agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Warden, chaplain and others arrested\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The former warden, \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/warden-federal-corrections-institute-dublin-charged-sexual-abuse-ward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">arrested last September\u003c/a>, is accused of molesting an incarcerated woman as she tried to push him away. Garcia made her and another incarcerated woman strip naked as he did rounds and took pictures that were found on his personal laptop computer and government-issued cellphone when the FBI raided his office and home last summer, prosecutors said. The abuse ended when the pandemic exploded and women were locked in their cells, they said. Garcia was later promoted; the Bureau of Prisons said it didn’t know about the abuse until later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re undressing, I’ve already looked,” Garcia, 54, told the FBI in July 2021, according to court records. “I don’t, like, schedule a time like, ‘You be undressed, and I’ll be there.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia, who was placed on leave after the raid and retired a month after his arrest, is also accused of using his authority to intimidate one of his victims, telling her that he was “close friends” with the person responsible for investigating staff misconduct and boasting that he could not be fired, prosecutors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/bureau-prisons-correctional-officer-charged-sexual-abuse-ward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ross Klinger\u003c/a>, 36, a Dublin prison recycling technician, is scheduled to plead guilty on Thursday to charges he sexually abused at least two incarcerated people between March and September 2020, including inside a warehouse and in a shipping container on prison grounds while another incarcerated person acted as a lookout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klinger told the women he wanted to marry them and father their children, even proposing to one of them with a diamond ring after she was discharged to a halfway house, prosecutors said. Another prisoner aware of the abuse reported Klinger to the Bureau of Prisons in June 2020, according to the FBI, but he was still allowed to transfer to a federal jail in San Diego months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the move, prosecutors said, Klinger kept contacting one victim through an email address he created with a phony name, sometimes sending lewd messages referencing sexual acts, and messaged the other woman on Snapchat, saying he loved her and was “willing to do anything” for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interviewed by investigators in April 2021, Klinger denied any wrongdoing, but said that because of the allegations his life was over and that he was concerned about going to prison and being labeled as a sex offender. He was in handcuffs two months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sexual misconduct of a ward, you can’t come back from that,” Klinger told investigators in the interview, according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-college-admissions-health-arrests-prisons-3c90285b68758035990cf29d24f3826d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Russell Bellhouse\u003c/a>, 39, a prison safety administrator, is scheduled to be arraigned this month on charges he sexually abused an incarcerated woman he called his “girlfriend” from February to December 2020. He was placed on leave in March and \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/federal-correctional-officer-charged-sexual-abuse-inmate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">arrested in December\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/sexual-abuse-arrests-prisons-1f6def993dee7621a995e1b852dde9c5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Theodore Highhouse\u003c/a>, 49, a prison chaplain, has already signed a plea agreement and is scheduled to plead guilty Feb. 23 to charges he put his penis on an incarcerated woman's genitals, mouth and hand and masturbated in front of her in 2018 and 2019, and that he lied to investigators when questioned about the abuse. He was arrested last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Warden had outsize influence\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Garcia, the highest-ranking federal prison official arrested in more than 10 years, had an outsize influence as warden over how Dublin handled employee sexual misconduct. He led staff and inmate training on reporting abuse and complying with the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act, known as PREA, and had control over staff discipline, including in cases of sexual abuse. In his prior role as associate warden, he had disciplinary authority over all incarcerated women, but not staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was also in charge of the legally required “rape elimination” compliance audit, first scheduled for early 2020 but not completed until last September — about the time he was arrested. The Bureau of Prisons blamed the pandemic for the delay and said the audit, Dublin’s first since 2017, is not yet finalized and cannot be made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In private, Garcia was flouting measures put in place to protect incarcerated people from sexual abuse and later panicked that he would get caught for his own alleged misbehavior, court records show. The woman Garcia is accused of assaulting told investigators that one instance of abuse happened while PREA officials were visiting the prison. Garcia assaulted her in a changing stall designed for PREA-compliant searches, she said.[aside tag=\"prison, jail, incarcerated\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]Publicly, Garcia appeared to take a hard line on abuse. In one of his first acts after he was named warden in November 2020, he recommended firing the maintenance foreman William Martinez, accused of rape in the 2019 suit — albeit for what the staff disciplinary process narrowed to a finding of an “appearance of an inappropriate relationship with an inmate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez has denied the allegations and has filed a discrimination complaint against the Bureau of Prisons with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He has not been charged with a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia tasked another official with making a final decision on punishment and that person reduced the penalty to a 15-day suspension, but even that was later overturned. Internal documents obtained by the AP show that prison officials failed to look into the allegations against Martinez for nearly two years and then, after the investigation finished, waited another year to propose discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An administrative judge wrote in June that the prison’s protracted investigation “strains credulity” on a matter as serious as alleged sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the judge also found that prison officials cherry-picked evidence to bolster their case, only to end up unraveling it. He reversed the suspension and ordered the Bureau of Prisons to provide back pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\n___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Michael Sisak reported from New York.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Follow \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MikeBalsamo1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Balsamo\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mikesisak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Sisak\u003c/a> and send confidential tips by visiting www.ap.org/tips.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Inside one of the only federal women's prisons in the U.S., incarcerated women say they have been subjected to rampant sexual abuse by correctional officers and even the warden, and were often threatened or punished when they tried to speak up.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1644271751,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":48,"wordCount":2415},"headData":{"title":"AP Investigation: Dublin Women's Prison Fostered Culture of Abuse | KQED","description":"Inside one of the only federal women's prisons in the U.S., incarcerated women say they have been subjected to rampant sexual abuse by correctional officers and even the warden, and were often threatened or punished when they tried to speak up.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11904298 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11904298","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/02/06/ap-investigation-dublin-womens-prison-fostered-culture-of-abuse/","disqusTitle":"AP Investigation: Dublin Women's Prison Fostered Culture of Abuse","nprByline":"Michael Balsamo and Michael R. Sisak \u003cbr> Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11904298/ap-investigation-dublin-womens-prison-fostered-culture-of-abuse","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Content warning: This story contains references to rape and sexual assault.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside one of the only federal women’s prisons in the United States, incarcerated women say they have been subjected to rampant sexual abuse by correctional officers and even the warden, and were often threatened or punished when they tried to speak up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prisoners and workers at the federal correctional institution in Dublin, California, even have a name for it: “the rape club.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Associated Press investigation has found a permissive and toxic culture at the Bay Area lockup, enabling years of sexual misconduct by predatory employees and cover-ups that have largely kept the abuse out of the public eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP obtained internal federal Bureau of Prisons documents, statements and recordings from incarcerated people, interviewed current and former prison employees and those incarcerated and reviewed thousands of pages of court records from criminal and civil cases involving Dublin prison staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Together, they detail how incarcerated people's allegations against members of the mostly male staff were ignored or set aside, how prisoners could be sent to solitary confinement for reporting abuse and how officials in charge of preventing and investigating sexual misconduct were themselves accused of abusing incarcerated people or neglecting their concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one instance, an incarcerated woman said a man, who was her prison work supervisor, taunted her by remarking “let the games begin” when he assigned her to work with a maintenance foreman she accused of rape. Another worker claimed he wanted to get inmates pregnant. The warden — the man in charge at Dublin — kept nude photos on his government-issued cellphone of a woman he is accused of assaulting.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"One incarcerated woman said she was 'overwhelmed with fear, anxiety, and anger, and cried uncontrollably' after enduring abuse and retaliation at Dublin.","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One incarcerated woman said she was “overwhelmed with fear, anxiety, and anger, and cried uncontrollably” after enduring abuse and retaliation at Dublin. Another said she contemplated suicide when her cries for help went unheeded and now suffers from severe anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A culture of misconduct\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>All sexual activity between a prison worker and an incarcerated person is illegal. Correctional employees enjoy substantial power over those incarcerated, controlling every aspect of their lives from mealtime to lights out, and there is no scenario in which an incarcerated person can give consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegations at Dublin, which so far have resulted in four arrests, are endemic of a larger problem within the beleaguered Bureau of Prisons. In 2020, the same year some of the women at Dublin complained, there were 422 complaints of staff-on-inmate sexual abuse across the system of 122 prisons and 153,000 incarcerated people. The agency said it substantiated only four of those complaints and that 290 are still being investigated. It would not say whether the allegations were concentrated in women’s prisons or spread throughout the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A hotbed of corruption and misconduct, the federal prison system has been plagued by myriad crises in recent years, including \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/federal-prisons-5be574b4103a2f5420e0d9da2daf5c9c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">widespread criminal activity among employees\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-prisons-government-and-politics-88fff925b1901a36a10581c28d826916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">critically low staffing levels\u003c/a> that have \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/only-on-ap-suicides-business-prisons-government-and-politics-0eba20833af541730b5e71bc4d2efbfe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hampered responses to emergencies\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-health-ap-top-news-politics-florida-724ee94ac5ba37b4df33c417f2bf78a2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rapid spread of COVID-19\u003c/a>, a failed response to the pandemic and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-prisons-prison-breaks-business-c1979d6ad6e7b3531968dab0e61eb22d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dozens of escapes\u003c/a>. Last month, the embattled director, Michael Carvajal, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-crime-prisons-arrests-efaf6fd8bbfe78b1124e64c08a5537ce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced he was resigning\u003c/a>. On Monday, two incarcerated people were killed in a gang clash at a federal penitentiary in Texas, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/texas-prison-fight-federal-lockdown-a0e7b61c5bdc5bbc25a691cc0a6920ba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prompting a nationwide lockdown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP contacted lawyers for every Dublin prison employee charged with sexual abuse or named as a defendant in a lawsuit alleging abuse, and tried reaching the men directly through available phone numbers and email addresses. None responded to interview requests. A government lawyer representing one of the men being sued declined comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thahesha Jusino, taking over as Dublin’s warden at the end of the month, promised to “work tirelessly to reaffirm the Bureau of Prisons’ zero tolerance for sexual abuse and sexual harassment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the agency is fully cooperating with the Justice Department’s inspector general on active investigations and noted that a “vast majority” of these cases were referred for investigation by the Bureau of Prisons itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am committed to ensuring the safety of our inmates, staff, and the public,” Jusino said in a statement to the AP. “A culture of misconduct, or actions not representative of the BOP’s Core Values will not be tolerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department said in a statement that “[z]ero tolerance means exactly that. The Justice Department is committed to both holding accountable any staff who violate their position of trust and to preventing these crimes from happening in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A criminal investigation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>FCI Dublin, which is 20 miles east of Oakland, was opened in 1974. It was converted in 2012 to one of six women-only facilities in the federal prison system. Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman both served time there for their involvement in a college admissions bribery scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Feb. 1, it had about 750 incarcerated people, many serving sentences for drug crimes. There are increasingly more women behind bars but they are still a minority — only about 6.5% of the overall federal inmate population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union officials say the vast majority of Dublin employees are honest and hardworking, and are upset that the allegations and actions of some workers have tarnished the prison’s reputation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a diversified staff. We have veterans. We have ex-law enforcement. We have good people, and they’re very traumatized,” Dublin union president Ed Canales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incarcerated people and prison workers who spoke to the AP did not want their names published for fear of retaliation. The AP also does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they grant permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women made the first internal complaints to staff members about five years ago, court records and internal agency documents show, but it’s not clear whether those complaints ever went anywhere. The women say they were largely ignored, and the abuse continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One incarcerated woman who reported a 2017 sexual assault said she was told nothing would be done about her complaint because it was a “he said-she said.” The woman, who is now suing the Bureau of Prisons over her treatment, said she was fired from her prison commissary job as retaliation. When she went to report her firing, she said a Dublin counselor took her abuser’s side, responding: “Child, do you want him to lose his job?” The woman was moved to a different prison a week later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, another Dublin incarcerated woman sued — first on her own with handwritten papers, then with the backing of a powerful San Francisco law firm — alleging that a maintenance foreman repeatedly raped her and that other workers facilitated the abuse and mocked her for it. When an internal prison investigator finally caught wind of what was happening, the woman said she was the one who got punished with three months in solitary confinement and a transfer to a federal prison in Alabama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2020, another incarcerated woman's report that Dublin workers were abusing inmates broke through to the Justice Department’s inspector general and the FBI, triggering a criminal investigation that has led to the arrest of four employees, including former warden \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/prisons-california-san-francisco-sexual-abuse-e9b0b3c8bf508bafc66399c95c02a1df\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ray J. Garcia\u003c/a>, in the past seven months. They each face up to 15 years in prison, though in other recent cases, sentences have ranged from three months to two years. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"The FBI said Friday that it is continuing to investigate and is looking for anyone who may have been victimized to come forward and speak with agents.","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"large","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of the men are expected to plead guilty in the coming weeks in federal court to charges of sexual abuse of a ward. None of the men accused in civil suits has been charged with a crime. Several Dublin workers are under investigation, though it’s not clear whether the men accused in the civil suits are among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI said Friday that it is continuing to investigate and is looking for anyone who may have been victimized to come forward and speak with agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Warden, chaplain and others arrested\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The former warden, \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/warden-federal-corrections-institute-dublin-charged-sexual-abuse-ward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">arrested last September\u003c/a>, is accused of molesting an incarcerated woman as she tried to push him away. Garcia made her and another incarcerated woman strip naked as he did rounds and took pictures that were found on his personal laptop computer and government-issued cellphone when the FBI raided his office and home last summer, prosecutors said. The abuse ended when the pandemic exploded and women were locked in their cells, they said. Garcia was later promoted; the Bureau of Prisons said it didn’t know about the abuse until later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re undressing, I’ve already looked,” Garcia, 54, told the FBI in July 2021, according to court records. “I don’t, like, schedule a time like, ‘You be undressed, and I’ll be there.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia, who was placed on leave after the raid and retired a month after his arrest, is also accused of using his authority to intimidate one of his victims, telling her that he was “close friends” with the person responsible for investigating staff misconduct and boasting that he could not be fired, prosecutors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/bureau-prisons-correctional-officer-charged-sexual-abuse-ward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ross Klinger\u003c/a>, 36, a Dublin prison recycling technician, is scheduled to plead guilty on Thursday to charges he sexually abused at least two incarcerated people between March and September 2020, including inside a warehouse and in a shipping container on prison grounds while another incarcerated person acted as a lookout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klinger told the women he wanted to marry them and father their children, even proposing to one of them with a diamond ring after she was discharged to a halfway house, prosecutors said. Another prisoner aware of the abuse reported Klinger to the Bureau of Prisons in June 2020, according to the FBI, but he was still allowed to transfer to a federal jail in San Diego months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the move, prosecutors said, Klinger kept contacting one victim through an email address he created with a phony name, sometimes sending lewd messages referencing sexual acts, and messaged the other woman on Snapchat, saying he loved her and was “willing to do anything” for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interviewed by investigators in April 2021, Klinger denied any wrongdoing, but said that because of the allegations his life was over and that he was concerned about going to prison and being labeled as a sex offender. He was in handcuffs two months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sexual misconduct of a ward, you can’t come back from that,” Klinger told investigators in the interview, according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-college-admissions-health-arrests-prisons-3c90285b68758035990cf29d24f3826d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Russell Bellhouse\u003c/a>, 39, a prison safety administrator, is scheduled to be arraigned this month on charges he sexually abused an incarcerated woman he called his “girlfriend” from February to December 2020. He was placed on leave in March and \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/federal-correctional-officer-charged-sexual-abuse-inmate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">arrested in December\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/sexual-abuse-arrests-prisons-1f6def993dee7621a995e1b852dde9c5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Theodore Highhouse\u003c/a>, 49, a prison chaplain, has already signed a plea agreement and is scheduled to plead guilty Feb. 23 to charges he put his penis on an incarcerated woman's genitals, mouth and hand and masturbated in front of her in 2018 and 2019, and that he lied to investigators when questioned about the abuse. He was arrested last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Warden had outsize influence\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Garcia, the highest-ranking federal prison official arrested in more than 10 years, had an outsize influence as warden over how Dublin handled employee sexual misconduct. He led staff and inmate training on reporting abuse and complying with the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act, known as PREA, and had control over staff discipline, including in cases of sexual abuse. In his prior role as associate warden, he had disciplinary authority over all incarcerated women, but not staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was also in charge of the legally required “rape elimination” compliance audit, first scheduled for early 2020 but not completed until last September — about the time he was arrested. The Bureau of Prisons blamed the pandemic for the delay and said the audit, Dublin’s first since 2017, is not yet finalized and cannot be made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In private, Garcia was flouting measures put in place to protect incarcerated people from sexual abuse and later panicked that he would get caught for his own alleged misbehavior, court records show. The woman Garcia is accused of assaulting told investigators that one instance of abuse happened while PREA officials were visiting the prison. Garcia assaulted her in a changing stall designed for PREA-compliant searches, she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"prison, jail, incarcerated","label":"More Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Publicly, Garcia appeared to take a hard line on abuse. In one of his first acts after he was named warden in November 2020, he recommended firing the maintenance foreman William Martinez, accused of rape in the 2019 suit — albeit for what the staff disciplinary process narrowed to a finding of an “appearance of an inappropriate relationship with an inmate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez has denied the allegations and has filed a discrimination complaint against the Bureau of Prisons with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He has not been charged with a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia tasked another official with making a final decision on punishment and that person reduced the penalty to a 15-day suspension, but even that was later overturned. Internal documents obtained by the AP show that prison officials failed to look into the allegations against Martinez for nearly two years and then, after the investigation finished, waited another year to propose discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An administrative judge wrote in June that the prison’s protracted investigation “strains credulity” on a matter as serious as alleged sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the judge also found that prison officials cherry-picked evidence to bolster their case, only to end up unraveling it. He reversed the suspension and ordered the Bureau of Prisons to provide back pay.\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>\u003cbr>\n___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Michael Sisak reported from New York.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Follow \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MikeBalsamo1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Balsamo\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mikesisak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Sisak\u003c/a> and send confidential tips by visiting www.ap.org/tips.\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/11904298/ap-investigation-dublin-womens-prison-fostered-culture-of-abuse","authors":["byline_news_11904298"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_30639","news_3543","news_28654","news_30638","news_3930","news_4435","news_18029"],"featImg":"news_11904299","label":"news"},"news_11884233":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11884233","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11884233","score":null,"sort":[1628897439000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"this-was-my-closure-why-sasha-perigo-chose-not-to-pursue-legal-action-against-her-alleged-rapist","title":"'This Was My Closure': Why Sasha Perigo Chose Not to Pursue Legal Action Against Her Alleged Rapist","publishDate":1628897439,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Content warning: This story contains references to rape and sexual assault.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Jacobo, a prominent San Francisco affordable housing advocate and community activist, resigned his seat on the city's Building Inspection Commission last week and took a leave of absence as chair of the nonprofit Latino Task Force's health committee following \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Jon-Jacobo-rising-San-Francisco-political-star-16371828.php#photo-21333574\">allegations that he raped a woman earlier this year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sashaperigo/status/1423674978948435973\">seven-page document posted to Twitter\u003c/a> on Aug. 6, housing organizer Sasha Perigo accused Jacobo, whom she had known since 2019 and considered a close friend, of raping her at his home in early April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the incident, Perigo went to the hospital to complete a rape kit — also known as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/articles/rape-kit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sexual assault forensic exam\u003c/a> — and texted friends about what happened, actions experts say are important for sexual assault survivors to take when it comes to holding attackers accountable. Perigo included screenshots of text messages between herself and Jacobo as well as between her and friends in the document she posted to Twitter, along with a photo of a letter from SFPD confirming that her rape kit was processed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A police report is automatically generated when a rape kit is processed in order to catalogue evidence — but beyond that, Perigo has intentionally chosen not to pursue legal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I haven't done is fill out any details,\" Perigo told KQED this week. \"I didn't talk to an officer at the hospital [or] give him Jon's name. And I don't want to cooperate with an investigation going forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sasha Perigo\"]'I'm a white woman, he is a dark-skinned Latino man. [Pressing charges] doesn't feel like justice to me, and doesn't make me feel any better.'[/pullquote]Perigo shared some of the reasons why she's choosing not to pursue legal action against Jacobo: the trauma of retelling the incident, her distrust of the criminal justice system and the absence of a sense of justice she believes she would feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a lot of reasons that victims of sexual assault don't go to the cops. That's actually quite common,\" Perigo said. \"To say that we don't take this seriously, unless people talk to the police, to me shows a misunderstanding of the crime of sexual assault and the trauma that follows.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perigo was referencing remarks made by San Francisco Supervisor Ahsha Safaí last week before Jacobo resigned: \"We can't try people via social media. Regardless of what information is presented, I think everyone is afforded due process.\" He also indicated that only if criminal charges were filed would he see it as a strong indication of evidence warranting Jacobo's resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many sexual assault survivors, the experience of having to retell their experience multiple times within the legal system is retraumatizing. \"That is not something I want to do,\" Perigo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perigo also acknowledged what she sees as her own position of power within the justice system. \"I'm a white woman, he is a dark-skinned Latino man,\" Perigo said. \"[Pressing charges] doesn't feel like justice to me, and doesn't make me feel any better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do not trust the cops ... I genuinely believe that we should abolish and defund the police. I don't think justice is brought forward through our current criminal justice system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perigo said her Twitter post marked a moment of letting go. \"This was kind of like the end for me,\" Perigo said. \"This was my closure. This isn't the beginning of a campaign to get justice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even without Perigo's involvement, a rape case against Jacobo could still proceed. Rachel Marshall, a spokesperson for San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin's office, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2021/08/jon-jacobo-rape-case-could-proceed-regardless-of-accusers-wishes/\">told Mission Local this week\u003c/a> that Boudin's office is investigating the case in cooperation with SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We prosecute violent crimes even without witness cooperation when we can prove the case,” Marshall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Perigo's experience indicative of larger systemic issues\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Tinisch Hollins, the executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://safeandjust.org/staff/tinisch-hollins/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Californians for Safety and Justice\u003c/a>, told KQED that Perigo's experience is part of a larger systemic failure of the criminal justice system when it comes to rape and sexual violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When communities of color experience crime and violence, there’s a perception that we somehow contribute to our own victimization,” Hollins said, “rather than looking at the systemic issues and things that contribute to violence and crime in our communities, especially when it comes to sexual assault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins shared some of the reasons she's observed that people choose not to report sexual assault: “One is obviously the trauma of having to relive and retell your experiences to systems that are often not equipped to help you deal with the trauma,” she said. According to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two out of every three\u003c/a> sexual assaults go unreported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason Hollins said people choose not to report is that the process of prosecution can be lengthy. In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article209892449.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rape kits were severely backlogged \u003c/a>for several years. Some sexual assault survivors had to wait over two years for the results. Hollins also said that while folks are waiting to go through the legal system, the people that assaulted them may not have been charged or prosecuted. \"Some people just don't feel safe,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to RAINN, of the sexual violence crimes \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not reported to police from 2005 to 2010\u003c/a>, the top three reasons given were fear of retaliation (20%), belief the police would not do anything to help (13%) and the belief that it was a personal matter (13%).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"sexual-assault, domestic-violence\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]In a Medium post titled \"\u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@MyrnaMelgar4D7?p=81202c98e044\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yo Tambien\u003c/a>\" (\"Me Too\" in Spanish), San Francisco Supervisor Myrna Melgar wrote about her own experience of sexual assault, and encouraged others to avoid perpetuating a false narrative from the decision not to report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A system that has never been fair to either men of color nor to female victims of sexual assault — is being used as evidence to render her word suspect,\" she wrote on Aug. 8. \"The system places the burden on the victim to pursue justice. Let me state unequivocally that this is crap.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is our #YoTambien moment, San Francisqueños,\" Melgar added. \"Part of growing and developing young leaders ... is to hold them accountable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar further emphasized the systemic nature of sexual violence and the need to do \"the hard work of dismantling the patriarchal systems within our own community and holding our leaders accountable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A review of racial disparity in sentencing by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/publications/racial-disparity-sentencing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open Society Foundations\u003c/a> found that young Black and Latino men tend to be sentenced more severely than their white male counterparts. This sentencing disparity has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/27/stanford-sexual-assault-trial-judge-persky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highlighted in recent years\u003c/a> in the Bay Area, specifically in the case of how judge Aaron Persky chose to sentence Brock Turner compared to Raul Ramirez: Turner received a six-month jail sentence and probation while Ramirez was sentenced to three years in state prison for similar sexual assault charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins said she doesn’t believe the criminal justice system offers as many options as many victims and survivors would like to see when it comes to intimate partner violence. “The majority of cases, even if they are reported, go without conviction,” she said, which leaves people with no closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so many barriers, “it's understandable that many people just don't even see the point in reporting the crime to begin with,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hollins also noted that there is still an opportunity for reckoning and healing \"not just this particular situation,\" she said, but also the broader situation, which is \"this overall conversation about folks who have an obligation to protect and heal our communities, [who are] working on their own self-healing and traumas that may have influenced them to behave a certain way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Jacobo did not reply to requests for comment on this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Resources\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (\u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RAINN\u003c/a>) created and operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline, which is 24/7, confidential and free: (800) 656-HOPE/(800) 656-4673\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bay Area Women Against Rape (\u003ca href=\"https://bawar.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BAWAR\u003c/a>) operates a 24-hour hotline in English and Spanish: (510) 345-1056\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ifrsf.org/mission_and_vision\">Instituto Familiar de la Raza\u003c/a> offers therapy and counseling in English and Spanish: (415) 229-0500\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://womensbuilding.org/advocacy/sexual-assault-prevention/\">The Women's Building's Sexual Assault & Harassment Prevention Project\u003c/a>: (415) 431-1180, ext. 20\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Perigo, who thoroughly documented her allegations against prominent SF politico Jon Jacobo on social media, chose not to pursue legal action against him — though that action could take place without her.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1629139596,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1435},"headData":{"title":"'This Was My Closure': Why Sasha Perigo Chose Not to Pursue Legal Action Against Her Alleged Rapist | KQED","description":"Perigo, who thoroughly documented her allegations against prominent SF politico Jon Jacobo on social media, chose not to pursue legal action against him — though that action could take place without her.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11884233 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11884233","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/08/13/this-was-my-closure-why-sasha-perigo-chose-not-to-pursue-legal-action-against-her-alleged-rapist/","disqusTitle":"'This Was My Closure': Why Sasha Perigo Chose Not to Pursue Legal Action Against Her Alleged Rapist","path":"/news/11884233/this-was-my-closure-why-sasha-perigo-chose-not-to-pursue-legal-action-against-her-alleged-rapist","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Content warning: This story contains references to rape and sexual assault.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Jacobo, a prominent San Francisco affordable housing advocate and community activist, resigned his seat on the city's Building Inspection Commission last week and took a leave of absence as chair of the nonprofit Latino Task Force's health committee following \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Jon-Jacobo-rising-San-Francisco-political-star-16371828.php#photo-21333574\">allegations that he raped a woman earlier this year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sashaperigo/status/1423674978948435973\">seven-page document posted to Twitter\u003c/a> on Aug. 6, housing organizer Sasha Perigo accused Jacobo, whom she had known since 2019 and considered a close friend, of raping her at his home in early April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the incident, Perigo went to the hospital to complete a rape kit — also known as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/articles/rape-kit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sexual assault forensic exam\u003c/a> — and texted friends about what happened, actions experts say are important for sexual assault survivors to take when it comes to holding attackers accountable. Perigo included screenshots of text messages between herself and Jacobo as well as between her and friends in the document she posted to Twitter, along with a photo of a letter from SFPD confirming that her rape kit was processed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A police report is automatically generated when a rape kit is processed in order to catalogue evidence — but beyond that, Perigo has intentionally chosen not to pursue legal action.\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>\"What I haven't done is fill out any details,\" Perigo told KQED this week. \"I didn't talk to an officer at the hospital [or] give him Jon's name. And I don't want to cooperate with an investigation going forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I'm a white woman, he is a dark-skinned Latino man. [Pressing charges] doesn't feel like justice to me, and doesn't make me feel any better.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Sasha Perigo","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Perigo shared some of the reasons why she's choosing not to pursue legal action against Jacobo: the trauma of retelling the incident, her distrust of the criminal justice system and the absence of a sense of justice she believes she would feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a lot of reasons that victims of sexual assault don't go to the cops. That's actually quite common,\" Perigo said. \"To say that we don't take this seriously, unless people talk to the police, to me shows a misunderstanding of the crime of sexual assault and the trauma that follows.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perigo was referencing remarks made by San Francisco Supervisor Ahsha Safaí last week before Jacobo resigned: \"We can't try people via social media. Regardless of what information is presented, I think everyone is afforded due process.\" He also indicated that only if criminal charges were filed would he see it as a strong indication of evidence warranting Jacobo's resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many sexual assault survivors, the experience of having to retell their experience multiple times within the legal system is retraumatizing. \"That is not something I want to do,\" Perigo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perigo also acknowledged what she sees as her own position of power within the justice system. \"I'm a white woman, he is a dark-skinned Latino man,\" Perigo said. \"[Pressing charges] doesn't feel like justice to me, and doesn't make me feel any better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do not trust the cops ... I genuinely believe that we should abolish and defund the police. I don't think justice is brought forward through our current criminal justice system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perigo said her Twitter post marked a moment of letting go. \"This was kind of like the end for me,\" Perigo said. \"This was my closure. This isn't the beginning of a campaign to get justice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even without Perigo's involvement, a rape case against Jacobo could still proceed. Rachel Marshall, a spokesperson for San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin's office, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2021/08/jon-jacobo-rape-case-could-proceed-regardless-of-accusers-wishes/\">told Mission Local this week\u003c/a> that Boudin's office is investigating the case in cooperation with SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We prosecute violent crimes even without witness cooperation when we can prove the case,” Marshall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Perigo's experience indicative of larger systemic issues\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Tinisch Hollins, the executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://safeandjust.org/staff/tinisch-hollins/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Californians for Safety and Justice\u003c/a>, told KQED that Perigo's experience is part of a larger systemic failure of the criminal justice system when it comes to rape and sexual violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When communities of color experience crime and violence, there’s a perception that we somehow contribute to our own victimization,” Hollins said, “rather than looking at the systemic issues and things that contribute to violence and crime in our communities, especially when it comes to sexual assault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins shared some of the reasons she's observed that people choose not to report sexual assault: “One is obviously the trauma of having to relive and retell your experiences to systems that are often not equipped to help you deal with the trauma,” she said. According to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two out of every three\u003c/a> sexual assaults go unreported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason Hollins said people choose not to report is that the process of prosecution can be lengthy. In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article209892449.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rape kits were severely backlogged \u003c/a>for several years. Some sexual assault survivors had to wait over two years for the results. Hollins also said that while folks are waiting to go through the legal system, the people that assaulted them may not have been charged or prosecuted. \"Some people just don't feel safe,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to RAINN, of the sexual violence crimes \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not reported to police from 2005 to 2010\u003c/a>, the top three reasons given were fear of retaliation (20%), belief the police would not do anything to help (13%) and the belief that it was a personal matter (13%).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"sexual-assault, domestic-violence","label":"More Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In a Medium post titled \"\u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@MyrnaMelgar4D7?p=81202c98e044\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yo Tambien\u003c/a>\" (\"Me Too\" in Spanish), San Francisco Supervisor Myrna Melgar wrote about her own experience of sexual assault, and encouraged others to avoid perpetuating a false narrative from the decision not to report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A system that has never been fair to either men of color nor to female victims of sexual assault — is being used as evidence to render her word suspect,\" she wrote on Aug. 8. \"The system places the burden on the victim to pursue justice. Let me state unequivocally that this is crap.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is our #YoTambien moment, San Francisqueños,\" Melgar added. \"Part of growing and developing young leaders ... is to hold them accountable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar further emphasized the systemic nature of sexual violence and the need to do \"the hard work of dismantling the patriarchal systems within our own community and holding our leaders accountable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A review of racial disparity in sentencing by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/publications/racial-disparity-sentencing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open Society Foundations\u003c/a> found that young Black and Latino men tend to be sentenced more severely than their white male counterparts. This sentencing disparity has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/27/stanford-sexual-assault-trial-judge-persky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highlighted in recent years\u003c/a> in the Bay Area, specifically in the case of how judge Aaron Persky chose to sentence Brock Turner compared to Raul Ramirez: Turner received a six-month jail sentence and probation while Ramirez was sentenced to three years in state prison for similar sexual assault charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins said she doesn’t believe the criminal justice system offers as many options as many victims and survivors would like to see when it comes to intimate partner violence. “The majority of cases, even if they are reported, go without conviction,” she said, which leaves people with no closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so many barriers, “it's understandable that many people just don't even see the point in reporting the crime to begin with,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hollins also noted that there is still an opportunity for reckoning and healing \"not just this particular situation,\" she said, but also the broader situation, which is \"this overall conversation about folks who have an obligation to protect and heal our communities, [who are] working on their own self-healing and traumas that may have influenced them to behave a certain way.\"\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>Jon Jacobo did not reply to requests for comment on this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Resources\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (\u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RAINN\u003c/a>) created and operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline, which is 24/7, confidential and free: (800) 656-HOPE/(800) 656-4673\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bay Area Women Against Rape (\u003ca href=\"https://bawar.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BAWAR\u003c/a>) operates a 24-hour hotline in English and Spanish: (510) 345-1056\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ifrsf.org/mission_and_vision\">Instituto Familiar de la Raza\u003c/a> offers therapy and counseling in English and Spanish: (415) 229-0500\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://womensbuilding.org/advocacy/sexual-assault-prevention/\">The Women's Building's Sexual Assault & Harassment Prevention Project\u003c/a>: (415) 431-1180, ext. 20\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11884233/this-was-my-closure-why-sasha-perigo-chose-not-to-pursue-legal-action-against-her-alleged-rapist","authors":["11655","11626"],"categories":["news_6188","news_28250","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_27626","news_29775","news_4435","news_38","news_29776","news_1527"],"featImg":"news_11885098","label":"news"},"news_11862291":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11862291","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11862291","score":null,"sort":[1614603629000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"women-janitors-win-more-protections-from-rape-on-the-night-shift","title":"Women Janitors Win More Protections From Rape on the Night Shift","publishDate":1614603629,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The nation's largest janitorial company,\u003ca href=\"https://www.abm.com/\"> ABM Industries,\u003c/a> has settled a lawsuit with three women janitors from Fresno who claimed the company fostered a sexually hostile work environment, emboldening supervisors to sexually harass and assault employees. The allegations against supervisors include making lewd sexual remarks, exposing genitals, displaying pornography, assault and attempted rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know we are not the only ones,\" said plaintiff Maria Paramo. \"This problem affects many workers, especially women in our industry, all across the country. I am proud to stand up for myself and others who cannot speak to say 'ya basta' [enough is enough].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ABM provides janitorial services across the country. It was a focal point of KQED's groundbreaking 2015 investigation \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\">“Rape on the Night Shift,\u003c/a>” produced in collaboration with \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/\">Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/\">PBS Frontline\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/\">Univision\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://journalism.berkeley.edu/programs/mj/investigative-reporting/\">UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program\u003c/a>. That investigation pointed to years of complaints against ABM, including a federal class-action lawsuit involving 21 women from the Central Valley.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Brenda Adams, senior attorney with Equal Rights Advocates\"]'It is a very scary thing to be in their position: to work alone at night in a big empty building, to not speak English, to be paid minimum wage and have that be your sole source of income for your entire family, to be threatened with losing your job, threatened with immigration authorities, and threatened physically with harm.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This new settlement — developed with input from women janitors themselves — requires ABM janitorial operations across California to develop more robust safety protocols. That could include using a buddy system to pair up workers when dropping off supplies, and limiting supply drops to well-lit, outdoor areas. The settlement also requires the company to create goals of hiring and promoting more women to supervisory positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case was first filed in 2019. Another plaintiff, Araceli Sanchez, said she endured 14 years of harassment while cleaning buildings, including sexual assault and attempted rape, from her supervisor, while working the night shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He made me feel like a piece of trash, like I wasn’t worth anything,” Sanchez told The California Report \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11726127/fresno-janitors-file-lawsuit-against-continued-rape-on-the-night-shift\">in 2019.\u003c/a> “Twice, he threatened me that if I told anyone, he would kill me. I felt like I didn’t have any rights. The company never told us we had any rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11726146\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11726146\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janitor Araceli Sanchez says she endured abuse at the hands of her supervisor for 14 years. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sanchez, who cannot read or write in English or Spanish, claims she was required to sign company documents without any explanation of what they meant. The complaint alleged there were documents in her personnel file that contained signatures of her name but were not actually signed by her, including one detailing policies against harassment in the workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is a very scary thing to be in their position: to work alone at night in a big empty building, to not speak English, to be paid minimum wage and have that be your sole source of income for your entire family, to be threatened with losing your job, threatened with immigration authorities, and threatened physically with harm,\" said Brenda Adams, senior attorney with \u003ca href=\"https://www.equalrights.org/\">Equal Rights Advocates\u003c/a>, which filed the lawsuit in conjunction with Fresno law firm Lang, Richert and Patch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11090957\" label=\"More on 'Rape on the Night Shift'\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These women were vulnerable and supervisors knew that. And ABM threw them to the wolves,\" added Adams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement also requires that sexual harassment training and resources be made available in English and Spanish, and be accessible to those with limited literacy by providing audio files and pictorial descriptions to janitors and supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It addresses a major problem in the janitorial industry, which is you can have the best policies on the planet, but if people don’t understand them, it’s meaningless,\" said Adams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement to KQED, ABM Industries noted that the company is \"committed to fostering a professional and safe working environment for all our employees and we have zero tolerance for sexual harassment. Upon learning of these alleged incidents, we took immediate action by suspending the accused individuals, retaining an independent third party to investigate the claims, following up with the employees on their wellbeing, and subsequently terminating the accused individuals immediately after our investigation concluded. We take any claim of sexual harassment very seriously and remain committed to providing a safe workplace for all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Three Fresno janitors have won a settlement against the nation's largest cleaning company.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1614626194,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":760},"headData":{"title":"Women Janitors Win More Protections From Rape on the Night Shift | KQED","description":"Three Fresno janitors have won a settlement against the nation's largest cleaning company.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11862291 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11862291","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/03/01/women-janitors-win-more-protections-from-rape-on-the-night-shift/","disqusTitle":"Women Janitors Win More Protections From Rape on the Night Shift","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/4016ef04-45ae-4f68-9837-acde011fa8f5/audio.mp3","path":"/news/11862291/women-janitors-win-more-protections-from-rape-on-the-night-shift","audioDuration":88000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The nation's largest janitorial company,\u003ca href=\"https://www.abm.com/\"> ABM Industries,\u003c/a> has settled a lawsuit with three women janitors from Fresno who claimed the company fostered a sexually hostile work environment, emboldening supervisors to sexually harass and assault employees. The allegations against supervisors include making lewd sexual remarks, exposing genitals, displaying pornography, assault and attempted rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know we are not the only ones,\" said plaintiff Maria Paramo. \"This problem affects many workers, especially women in our industry, all across the country. I am proud to stand up for myself and others who cannot speak to say 'ya basta' [enough is enough].\"\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>ABM provides janitorial services across the country. It was a focal point of KQED's groundbreaking 2015 investigation \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\">“Rape on the Night Shift,\u003c/a>” produced in collaboration with \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/\">Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/\">PBS Frontline\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/\">Univision\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://journalism.berkeley.edu/programs/mj/investigative-reporting/\">UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program\u003c/a>. That investigation pointed to years of complaints against ABM, including a federal class-action lawsuit involving 21 women from the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It is a very scary thing to be in their position: to work alone at night in a big empty building, to not speak English, to be paid minimum wage and have that be your sole source of income for your entire family, to be threatened with losing your job, threatened with immigration authorities, and threatened physically with harm.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Brenda Adams, senior attorney with Equal Rights Advocates","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This new settlement — developed with input from women janitors themselves — requires ABM janitorial operations across California to develop more robust safety protocols. That could include using a buddy system to pair up workers when dropping off supplies, and limiting supply drops to well-lit, outdoor areas. The settlement also requires the company to create goals of hiring and promoting more women to supervisory positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case was first filed in 2019. Another plaintiff, Araceli Sanchez, said she endured 14 years of harassment while cleaning buildings, including sexual assault and attempted rape, from her supervisor, while working the night shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He made me feel like a piece of trash, like I wasn’t worth anything,” Sanchez told The California Report \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11726127/fresno-janitors-file-lawsuit-against-continued-rape-on-the-night-shift\">in 2019.\u003c/a> “Twice, he threatened me that if I told anyone, he would kill me. I felt like I didn’t have any rights. The company never told us we had any rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11726146\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11726146\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janitor Araceli Sanchez says she endured abuse at the hands of her supervisor for 14 years. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sanchez, who cannot read or write in English or Spanish, claims she was required to sign company documents without any explanation of what they meant. The complaint alleged there were documents in her personnel file that contained signatures of her name but were not actually signed by her, including one detailing policies against harassment in the workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is a very scary thing to be in their position: to work alone at night in a big empty building, to not speak English, to be paid minimum wage and have that be your sole source of income for your entire family, to be threatened with losing your job, threatened with immigration authorities, and threatened physically with harm,\" said Brenda Adams, senior attorney with \u003ca href=\"https://www.equalrights.org/\">Equal Rights Advocates\u003c/a>, which filed the lawsuit in conjunction with Fresno law firm Lang, Richert and Patch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11090957","label":"More on 'Rape on the Night Shift' "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These women were vulnerable and supervisors knew that. And ABM threw them to the wolves,\" added Adams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement also requires that sexual harassment training and resources be made available in English and Spanish, and be accessible to those with limited literacy by providing audio files and pictorial descriptions to janitors and supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It addresses a major problem in the janitorial industry, which is you can have the best policies on the planet, but if people don’t understand them, it’s meaningless,\" said Adams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement to KQED, ABM Industries noted that the company is \"committed to fostering a professional and safe working environment for all our employees and we have zero tolerance for sexual harassment. Upon learning of these alleged incidents, we took immediate action by suspending the accused individuals, retaining an independent third party to investigate the claims, following up with the employees on their wellbeing, and subsequently terminating the accused individuals immediately after our investigation concluded. We take any claim of sexual harassment very seriously and remain committed to providing a safe workplace for all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11862291/women-janitors-win-more-protections-from-rape-on-the-night-shift","authors":["254"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_1169","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_29199","news_18538","news_311","news_37","news_19948","news_22464","news_18239","news_29200","news_4435","news_18262","news_2838","news_4569"],"featImg":"news_11726147","label":"news_72"},"news_11748952":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11748952","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11748952","score":null,"sort":[1558484498000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"with-growing-reports-of-sexual-violence-santa-clara-county-weighs-5-million-fund-to-help-survivors","title":"With Growing Reports of Sexual Violence, Santa Clara County Weighs $5 Million Fund to Help Survivors","publishDate":1558484498,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors is weighing whether to create a $5 million reserve fund to prevent gender-based violence in the community and to help survivors, with law enforcement and local leaders saying reports of such attacks are on the rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Michelle, survivor of sexual assault']'I am a strong woman and this one action has just changed me to the cellular level. And the services that I should have been provided, I found were sparse to none. I had to go looking on my own.'[/pullquote]The board voted on Tuesday to send the \u003ca href=\"http://sccgov.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_LegiFile.aspx?Frame=&MeetingID=11032&MediaPosition=&ID=96700&CssClass=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposal\u003c/a> to the county administration, which will bring back options during the budget hearings in June. Recommendations for the funding include more shelters, a sexual assault survivor app and a pilot program with local law enforcement agencies to transport victims of strangulation to Valley Medical Center for a forensic medical exam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What's unfortunate about this is we shouldn't be asking for this money right now. It should be in our budgets. I should be asking for more money, not the basics. And that's really what we're doing with this $5 million,” Supervisor Cindy Chavez, who co-sponsored the proposal, said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are ... perilous times for women in our community,” she added. “Particularly because, at a national level under the leadership of President Trump, they've been trying, his administration, to chip away at services for women, for reproductive health rights and for LGBTQ services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several advocates for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence, as well as leaders in the LGBTQ community, encouraged the board to move ahead with the reserve. The county administration must provide an implementation plan to the board no later than September 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has always been a quiet war on women in this country when you look at the rates of sexual assault and violence committed against women. It has been a quiet war. It is no longer a quiet war on women. When we look at how the rates have increased and we look at the policies that are being put in place, there can be no doubt that there is a war on women in this country,” said Erin O’Brien, president and CEO of Community Solutions, which serves 10,000 survivors of gender-based violence a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Cindy Chavez, supervisor']'I should be asking for more money, not the basics. And that's really what we're doing with this $5 million.'[/pullquote]Law enforcement and some advocates have reported a rise in sexual violence in Santa Clara County: The San Jose Police Department in April shared 2014-2018 data with the board, reporting 1,715 rapes and 3,500 child molestation incidents and predicting a steady increase for both crimes in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sexual Assault Forensic Exam (SAFE) program at Valley Medical Center in April said it has experienced a steady increase in the number of exams in the last few years, and, in 2019, they’ve already seen a 35% increase in the number of cases compared to this time last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office has seen a 20% increase in sexual assault cases it reviewed from 2017 to 2018, said Assistant District Attorney Terry Harman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='metoo' label='More Coverage']“We've seen the number of reported rapes in our community just go through the roof. So I think number one, people are asking for more help. Number two, we're making sure that the leaders here are ensuring that help is there,” said Tanis Crosby, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://ywca-sv.org/crisis-intervention/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YWCA Silicon Valley\u003c/a>, which provides support services to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One survivor of sexual assault, who gave her name only as Michelle, said she was still dealing with PTSD from her attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am a strong woman and this one action has just changed me to the cellular level,” she said, her voice shaking, as she addressed the board. “And the services that I should have been provided, I found were sparse to none. I had to go looking on my own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was so afraid to leave my house. I was a prisoner within my own self,” she added. “And to think of all the women that go through this and children that have to go through this, and don't have the capacity to communicate what they're feeling. It just kills me inside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Got a news tip or comment? Email the reporter: mleitsinger@kqed.org. You can also reach her on the encrypted communications app, Signal: 650-888-2765.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'This one action has just changed me to the cellular level. And the services that I should have been provided, I found were sparse to none. I had to go looking on my own,' said one survivor of sexual assault.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1558484498,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":802},"headData":{"title":"With Growing Reports of Sexual Violence, Santa Clara County Weighs $5 Million Fund to Help Survivors | KQED","description":"'This one action has just changed me to the cellular level. And the services that I should have been provided, I found were sparse to none. 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And the services that I should have been provided, I found were sparse to none. I had to go looking on my own.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"small","align":"right","citation":"Michelle, survivor of sexual assault","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The board voted on Tuesday to send the \u003ca href=\"http://sccgov.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_LegiFile.aspx?Frame=&MeetingID=11032&MediaPosition=&ID=96700&CssClass=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposal\u003c/a> to the county administration, which will bring back options during the budget hearings in June. Recommendations for the funding include more shelters, a sexual assault survivor app and a pilot program with local law enforcement agencies to transport victims of strangulation to Valley Medical Center for a forensic medical exam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What's unfortunate about this is we shouldn't be asking for this money right now. It should be in our budgets. I should be asking for more money, not the basics. And that's really what we're doing with this $5 million,” Supervisor Cindy Chavez, who co-sponsored the proposal, said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are ... perilous times for women in our community,” she added. “Particularly because, at a national level under the leadership of President Trump, they've been trying, his administration, to chip away at services for women, for reproductive health rights and for LGBTQ services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several advocates for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence, as well as leaders in the LGBTQ community, encouraged the board to move ahead with the reserve. The county administration must provide an implementation plan to the board no later than September 2019.\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>“There has always been a quiet war on women in this country when you look at the rates of sexual assault and violence committed against women. It has been a quiet war. It is no longer a quiet war on women. When we look at how the rates have increased and we look at the policies that are being put in place, there can be no doubt that there is a war on women in this country,” said Erin O’Brien, president and CEO of Community Solutions, which serves 10,000 survivors of gender-based violence a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I should be asking for more money, not the basics. And that's really what we're doing with this $5 million.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"small","align":"right","citation":"Cindy Chavez, supervisor","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Law enforcement and some advocates have reported a rise in sexual violence in Santa Clara County: The San Jose Police Department in April shared 2014-2018 data with the board, reporting 1,715 rapes and 3,500 child molestation incidents and predicting a steady increase for both crimes in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sexual Assault Forensic Exam (SAFE) program at Valley Medical Center in April said it has experienced a steady increase in the number of exams in the last few years, and, in 2019, they’ve already seen a 35% increase in the number of cases compared to this time last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office has seen a 20% increase in sexual assault cases it reviewed from 2017 to 2018, said Assistant District Attorney Terry Harman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"metoo","label":"More Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We've seen the number of reported rapes in our community just go through the roof. So I think number one, people are asking for more help. Number two, we're making sure that the leaders here are ensuring that help is there,” said Tanis Crosby, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://ywca-sv.org/crisis-intervention/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YWCA Silicon Valley\u003c/a>, which provides support services to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One survivor of sexual assault, who gave her name only as Michelle, said she was still dealing with PTSD from her attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am a strong woman and this one action has just changed me to the cellular level,” she said, her voice shaking, as she addressed the board. “And the services that I should have been provided, I found were sparse to none. I had to go looking on my own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was so afraid to leave my house. I was a prisoner within my own self,” she added. “And to think of all the women that go through this and children that have to go through this, and don't have the capacity to communicate what they're feeling. It just kills me inside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Got a news tip or comment? Email the reporter: mleitsinger@kqed.org. You can also reach her on the encrypted communications app, Signal: 650-888-2765.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11748952/with-growing-reports-of-sexual-violence-santa-clara-county-weighs-5-million-fund-to-help-survivors","authors":["11310","248"],"categories":["news_457","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_25767","news_19542","news_25765","news_4435","news_18188","news_25766","news_1527"],"featImg":"news_11748987","label":"news"},"news_11726127":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11726127","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11726127","score":null,"sort":[1550166004000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"fresno-janitors-file-lawsuit-against-continued-rape-on-the-night-shift","title":"Fresno Janitors Sue Employer, Alleging Continued 'Rape on the Night Shift'","publishDate":1550166004,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Three women janitors from Fresno have filed a lawsuit claiming that the nation’s largest janitorial company, ABM, fostered a sexually hostile work environment, emboldening supervisors to sexually harass and assault employees. The allegations against supervisors include making lewd sexual remarks, exposing genitals, displaying pornography, assault and attempted rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ABM provides janitorial services across the country. It was a focal point of KQED's groundbreaking 2015 investigation \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\">“Rape on the Night Shift,\u003c/a>” produced in collaboration with Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, PBS Frontline, Univision and UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program. That investigation pointed to years of complaints against ABM, including a federal class-action lawsuit involving 21 women from the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11726148\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11726148 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35263_IMG_2971-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35263_IMG_2971-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35263_IMG_2971-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35263_IMG_2971-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35263_IMG_2971-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35263_IMG_2971-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney Jennifer Reisch of Equal Rights Advocates, and janitors from around the state who came to support the plaintiffs, appear at a press conference in front of Fresno County Superior Court on Feb. 13, 2019. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the new case filed this week, Fresno janitor Araceli Sanchez claims to have endured 14 years of harassment from her supervisor. She says he frequently grabbed her by the back of her head and tried to force her to her knees so that she would give him oral sex. The lawsuit details an incident in which he called her to his truck under guise of getting cleaning supplies, but would instead watch pornography and begin masturbating, as well as another incident where he drove her to an orchard and attempted to rape her.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read KQED's Coverage of 'Rape on the Night Shift'\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/CITY_06.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“He made me feel like a piece of trash, like I wasn’t worth anything,” said Sanchez, standing outside Fresno County Superior Court, where the suit was filed. “Twice, he threatened me that if I told anyone, he would kill me. I felt like I didn’t have any rights. The company never told us we had any rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez, who cannot read or write in English or Spanish, claims she was required to sign company documents without any explanation of what they meant. The complaint alleges there were documents in her personnel file that contained signatures of her name, but were not actually signed by her, including one detailing policies against harassment in the workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit also alleges that the supervisor forced her to work off the clock, laundering her cleaning mop-heads and rags, and failed to reimburse her for the cost of using a laundromat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another plaintiff, Maria Paramo, claims that the same supervisor repeatedly grabbed her breasts and, at one point, digitally raped her by forcing his fingers into her vagina. Years later, the suit alleges he demanded oral sex in exchange for assigning her a full eight-hour shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The company should be responsible. They can’t be blind or mute about what we say is happening to us,” Paramo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11726147\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11726147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Paramo says the same supervisor who harassed Sanchez harassed her repeatedly and eventually assaulted her on the job. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ABM has been sued by the federal government three times for failing to protect workers from sexual harassment. Each time it agreed to improvements. As recently as 2013, the company was subject to a consent decree stemming from the federal lawsuit in the Central Valley. That decree spelled out specific steps to protect janitors from harassment on the job in Fresno and surrounding areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ABM also \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/sexual-abuse-claims-to-face-outside-review-at-nations-biggest-janitorial-firm/\">agreed to follow other steps\u003c/a> after a 2015 settlement in another case against ABM involving a female janitor who said she was raped by her supervisor at the San Francisco Ferry Building. As part of the terms of that case, ABM agreed to hire an outside neutral female investigator when it receives a complaint. The latest lawsuit alleges that when ABM did investigate the Fresno women’s case, it hired an investigator who had previously defended ABM against claims of sexual harassment in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The company has broken its promises in numerous ways for many years,” said attorney Jennifer Reisch of Equal Rights Advocates in San Francisco, who’s representing the women in this new case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not the first or the second or the fifth time that this company has been sued by janitors who’ve been raped, sexually assaulted and harassed on the night shift,” Reisch said. “But I really, really hope that this the last.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reisch said the company could be taking easy steps, like checking in with supervisors to make sure they’re not violating policies, and making it more clear where women can go to report harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ABM spokeswoman declined to comment on the Fresno lawsuit before deadline. In prior statements, the company has said its policies to address sexual abuse are the gold standard in the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5738781-Sanchez-Et-Al-v-ABM-Et-Al-Final-Complaint/\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Three women janitors from Fresno have filed a lawsuit claiming that the janitorial company ABM fostered a sexually hostile work environment, emboldening supervisors to sexually harass and assault employees.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1550190151,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":829},"headData":{"title":"Fresno Janitors Sue Employer, Alleging Continued 'Rape on the Night Shift' | KQED","description":"Three women janitors from Fresno have filed a lawsuit claiming that the janitorial company ABM fostered a sexually hostile work environment, emboldening supervisors to sexually harass and assault employees.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11726127 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11726127","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/02/14/fresno-janitors-file-lawsuit-against-continued-rape-on-the-night-shift/","disqusTitle":"Fresno Janitors Sue Employer, Alleging Continued 'Rape on the Night Shift'","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2019/02/FresnoJanitorsKhokatcram190214.mp3","audioTrackLength":120,"path":"/news/11726127/fresno-janitors-file-lawsuit-against-continued-rape-on-the-night-shift","audioDuration":138000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Three women janitors from Fresno have filed a lawsuit claiming that the nation’s largest janitorial company, ABM, fostered a sexually hostile work environment, emboldening supervisors to sexually harass and assault employees. The allegations against supervisors include making lewd sexual remarks, exposing genitals, displaying pornography, assault and attempted rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ABM provides janitorial services across the country. It was a focal point of KQED's groundbreaking 2015 investigation \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\">“Rape on the Night Shift,\u003c/a>” produced in collaboration with Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, PBS Frontline, Univision and UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program. That investigation pointed to years of complaints against ABM, including a federal class-action lawsuit involving 21 women from the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11726148\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11726148 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35263_IMG_2971-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35263_IMG_2971-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35263_IMG_2971-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35263_IMG_2971-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35263_IMG_2971-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35263_IMG_2971-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney Jennifer Reisch of Equal Rights Advocates, and janitors from around the state who came to support the plaintiffs, appear at a press conference in front of Fresno County Superior Court on Feb. 13, 2019. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the new case filed this week, Fresno janitor Araceli Sanchez claims to have endured 14 years of harassment from her supervisor. She says he frequently grabbed her by the back of her head and tried to force her to her knees so that she would give him oral sex. The lawsuit details an incident in which he called her to his truck under guise of getting cleaning supplies, but would instead watch pornography and begin masturbating, as well as another incident where he drove her to an orchard and attempted to rape her.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read KQED's Coverage of 'Rape on the Night Shift'\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/CITY_06.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“He made me feel like a piece of trash, like I wasn’t worth anything,” said Sanchez, standing outside Fresno County Superior Court, where the suit was filed. “Twice, he threatened me that if I told anyone, he would kill me. I felt like I didn’t have any rights. The company never told us we had any rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez, who cannot read or write in English or Spanish, claims she was required to sign company documents without any explanation of what they meant. The complaint alleges there were documents in her personnel file that contained signatures of her name, but were not actually signed by her, including one detailing policies against harassment in the workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit also alleges that the supervisor forced her to work off the clock, laundering her cleaning mop-heads and rags, and failed to reimburse her for the cost of using a laundromat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another plaintiff, Maria Paramo, claims that the same supervisor repeatedly grabbed her breasts and, at one point, digitally raped her by forcing his fingers into her vagina. Years later, the suit alleges he demanded oral sex in exchange for assigning her a full eight-hour shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The company should be responsible. They can’t be blind or mute about what we say is happening to us,” Paramo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11726147\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11726147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Paramo says the same supervisor who harassed Sanchez harassed her repeatedly and eventually assaulted her on the job. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ABM has been sued by the federal government three times for failing to protect workers from sexual harassment. Each time it agreed to improvements. As recently as 2013, the company was subject to a consent decree stemming from the federal lawsuit in the Central Valley. That decree spelled out specific steps to protect janitors from harassment on the job in Fresno and surrounding areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ABM also \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/sexual-abuse-claims-to-face-outside-review-at-nations-biggest-janitorial-firm/\">agreed to follow other steps\u003c/a> after a 2015 settlement in another case against ABM involving a female janitor who said she was raped by her supervisor at the San Francisco Ferry Building. As part of the terms of that case, ABM agreed to hire an outside neutral female investigator when it receives a complaint. The latest lawsuit alleges that when ABM did investigate the Fresno women’s case, it hired an investigator who had previously defended ABM against claims of sexual harassment in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The company has broken its promises in numerous ways for many years,” said attorney Jennifer Reisch of Equal Rights Advocates in San Francisco, who’s representing the women in this new case.\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>“It is not the first or the second or the fifth time that this company has been sued by janitors who’ve been raped, sexually assaulted and harassed on the night shift,” Reisch said. “But I really, really hope that this the last.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reisch said the company could be taking easy steps, like checking in with supervisors to make sure they’re not violating policies, and making it more clear where women can go to report harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ABM spokeswoman declined to comment on the Fresno lawsuit before deadline. In prior statements, the company has said its policies to address sexual abuse are the gold standard in the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"documentcloud","attributes":{"named":{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5738781-Sanchez-Et-Al-v-ABM-Et-Al-Final-Complaint/","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11726127/fresno-janitors-file-lawsuit-against-continued-rape-on-the-night-shift","authors":["254"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_37","news_19948","news_18239","news_4435","news_18262"],"featImg":"news_11726146","label":"news_72"},"news_11680508":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11680508","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11680508","score":null,"sort":[1531860636000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"s-f-police-announce-arrest-of-alleged-rideshare-rapist","title":"ICE Wades Into S.F. ‘Rideshare Rapist’ Case, Defendant Held With No Bail","publishDate":1531860636,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:43 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A San Francisco judge ordered an alleged serial rapist held without bail Tuesday and scheduled further hearings on the case for Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orlando Vilchez Lazo, 37, was arrested last week and booked into San Francisco jail on suspicion of nearly four-dozen felonies. Prosecutors filed 12 criminal charges against him Tuesday, stemming from four separate sexual assaults — one in 2013 and three this year. He allegedly picked up women outside bars in the city's South of Market district by posing as a driver they'd ordered using a ride-hailing app, according to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the rapes alleged this year, prosecutors charge that Vilchez Lazo used a knife to threaten women he kidnapped and raped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/ICE-takes-aim-at-SF-sanctuary-city-law-in-13080448.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle reported\u003c/a> Tuesday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are seeking to deport Vilchez Lazo to Peru. The federal agency said it lodged a request with San Francisco sheriff's deputies to turn Vilchez Lazo over to immigration authorities if he is released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The request, known as an immigration detainer, has been found by federal courts to violate defendants' constitutional rights if it results in inmates being held for longer than they would otherwise be released, and San Francisco \"sanctuary city\" policies generally prohibit cooperation with the ICE requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration officials said they expected the detention request to be ignored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The San Francisco jail does not honor ICE detainers nor notify ICE about the impending release of aliens in its custody,\" ICE's statement says. \"In doing so, the jail not only provides a refuge for illegal aliens, but it also shields criminal aliens who prey on people in the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors and defense attorneys said the statement from ICE is confusing because San Francisco's sanctuary policies are not at issue in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This person has no criminal history,\" district attorney's spokesman Alex Bastian said. \"This is a state-court case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City and state laws limiting cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration officials would only have affected Vilchez Lazo if he had been in criminal custody before his most recent arrest and was not turned over to ICE, attorneys familiar with the case said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This case has nothing to do with the sanctuary laws in San Francisco,\" deputy public defender Eric Quandt said outside of court Tuesday. \"It has nothing to do with Mr. Vilchez Lazo's immigration status whatsoever. This looks to be an attempt by ICE at advancing their political agenda.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The politicization of the case echoes the national fallout after the 2015 slaying of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kathryn-steinle\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kathryn Steinle\u003c/a> on a pedestrian pier near San Francisco's Ferry Building. Jose Inez Garcia Zarate had been released from San Francisco jail two months before the shooting — despite an ICE detainer — and was charged with murdering Steinle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-presidential candidate Donald \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10622762/the-forgotten-tracking-two-homicides-in-san-francisco-public-housing\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump seized\u003c/a> on the case to criticize so-called \"sanctuary cities\" and as an example of violence committed by immigrants in the country illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia Zarate was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11633296/steinle-trial-verdict\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">acquitted\u003c/a> of the most serious charges after his defense attorneys successfully argued that the shooting was a freak accident: Garcia Zarate had picked up an object wrapped in some kind of cloth while sitting on the pier. It was a gun stolen a few days prior from a U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11624516/federal-agency-promoted-ranger-just-months-after-his-gun-was-stolen-and-used-in-steinle-killing\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bureau of Land Management ranger\u003c/a>, and it went off as he unwrapped it, ricocheting off the concrete pier and traveling another \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11628705/defense-expert-shot-that-killed-kathryn-steinle-fired-from-low-to-the-ground\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">78 feet\u003c/a> before hitting Steinle in the back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jurors did find Garcia Zarate guilty of illegally possessing the gun. He was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11635132/defendant-in-kathryn-steinles-death-indicted-on-federal-gun-charges\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">subsequently charged\u003c/a> with gun possession in federal court and faces a 20-year prison sentence if convicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post Friday, July 13:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A San Mateo man is in jail in San Francisco and facing felony charges for allegedly posing as a driver for a ride-hailing app to lure women into his car and sexually assault them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orlando Vilchez Lazo, 37, was arrested in San Mateo on Thursday under suspicion of dozens of charges stemming from four separate rapes and assaults, San Francisco police Commander Greg McEachern announced at a press conference on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These assaults were violent rapes committed by a serial rapist -- a sexual deviant predator who was not going to stop until he was caught,\" McEachern said, his voice beginning to shake. He apologized for becoming emotional. \"This is the exact thing that everyone fears could happen in this city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first assault was reported in 2013, McEachern said, and the then-unknown assailant's DNA profile was uploaded into a national criminal database. But it didn't match any existing profiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All investigators knew was that an unidentified man had pulled up to a local bar and pretended to be the driver a woman had booked via a \"common rideshare company.\" Police didn't identify which service was involved but said multiple companies cooperated in the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Instead of going home safely and arriving, the driver of that vehicle, on a ruse that he was a rideshare driver, took that victim to another location and sexually assaulted her,\" McEachern said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case sat dormant for five years, and then in late February, it happened again. DNA from that case, as well as the tactics involved, matched the case from 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect had a sticker or placard identifying him as an app-service driver, police said, and he appears to have used different vehicles in the attacks, according to descriptions from the survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another woman reported a third rape about a week later, and again, the forensics and M.O. matched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's when the Police Department launched a task force and named the case the \"Rideshare Rapist series,\" McEachern said. The task force included several SFPD divisions as well as the district attorney's office and assistance from the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680564\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Orlando-Vilchezlazo.jpg\" alt=\"Orlando Vilchez Lazo, 37, was arrested in San Mateo on Thursday under suspicion of dozens of charges stemming from four separate rapes and assaults.\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11680564\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Orlando-Vilchezlazo.jpg 480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Orlando-Vilchezlazo-160x200.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Orlando-Vilchezlazo-240x300.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Orlando-Vilchezlazo-375x469.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orlando Vilchez Lazo, 37, was arrested in San Mateo on Thursday under suspicion of dozens of charges stemming from four separate rapes and assaults. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of SFPD)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The duties of those task force officers were to author numerous search warrants, follow all investigative leads that we had up to that point, conduct undercover and uniform surveillance and to follow every lead that we could to every location that we could imagine,\" McEachern said. \"We went as far south as San Jose and as far east as Stockton on leads over the last couple of months.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But investigators didn't find their suspect, and a fourth woman reported a sexual assault in June — same tactics, same DNA. The suspect allegedly used a knife to threaten his target, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McEachern said the final break in the case came over the weekend, when undercover officers staking out bars in the South of Market neighborhood, where the suspect had operated before, spotted \"an individual whose behavior and M.O. matched the description from the four previous sexual assaults.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers pulled Orlando Vilchez Lazo over and somehow collected a DNA sample from him. McEachern declined to elaborate on how the sample was obtained, but he said Vilchez Lazo provided it knowingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD's crime lab matched the sample to the most recent rape on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We knew we had the same suspect for all four rapes,\" McEachern said. \"It’s hard to say what was in the mind of an individual like this, but the fact that he’s committed these four rapes over five years led us to believe he was a very dangerous person who wasn’t going to stop until we caught him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vilchez Lazo was arrested Thursday in San Mateo and booked into San Francisco jail under suspicion of dozens of felonies, including false imprisonment, kidnapping, assault with intent to commit rape, sexual penetration with a foreign object and rape, according to the Police Department. He was being held on $4.3 million bail, according to Sheriff's Department records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police couldn't immediately explain the five-year gap in the alleged assaults, but they are asking anyone with information about similar crimes to come forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe there are other victims that may be out there,\" McEachern said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vilchez Lazo has no known criminal record, according to police, and they've been unable to verify whether Vilchez Lazo had ever worked for a ride-hailing company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He appears to have answered a survey conducted by the California Public Utilities Commission in August of 2016, asking respondents for their feelings on whether prospective ride-hailing drivers should be required to submit to fingerprinting. A San Mateo resident with the name Orlando Vilchez voted \"No.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'This looks to be an attempt by ICE at advancing their political agenda,' San Francisco deputy public defender Eric Quandt said.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1531875032,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":41,"wordCount":1439},"headData":{"title":"ICE Wades Into S.F. ‘Rideshare Rapist’ Case, Defendant Held With No Bail | KQED","description":"'This looks to be an attempt by ICE at advancing their political agenda,' San Francisco deputy public defender Eric Quandt said.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11680508 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11680508","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/07/17/s-f-police-announce-arrest-of-alleged-rideshare-rapist/","disqusTitle":"ICE Wades Into S.F. ‘Rideshare Rapist’ Case, Defendant Held With No Bail","path":"/news/11680508/s-f-police-announce-arrest-of-alleged-rideshare-rapist","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:43 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A San Francisco judge ordered an alleged serial rapist held without bail Tuesday and scheduled further hearings on the case for Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orlando Vilchez Lazo, 37, was arrested last week and booked into San Francisco jail on suspicion of nearly four-dozen felonies. Prosecutors filed 12 criminal charges against him Tuesday, stemming from four separate sexual assaults — one in 2013 and three this year. He allegedly picked up women outside bars in the city's South of Market district by posing as a driver they'd ordered using a ride-hailing app, according to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the rapes alleged this year, prosecutors charge that Vilchez Lazo used a knife to threaten women he kidnapped and raped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/ICE-takes-aim-at-SF-sanctuary-city-law-in-13080448.php\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle reported\u003c/a> Tuesday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are seeking to deport Vilchez Lazo to Peru. The federal agency said it lodged a request with San Francisco sheriff's deputies to turn Vilchez Lazo over to immigration authorities if he is released.\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 request, known as an immigration detainer, has been found by federal courts to violate defendants' constitutional rights if it results in inmates being held for longer than they would otherwise be released, and San Francisco \"sanctuary city\" policies generally prohibit cooperation with the ICE requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration officials said they expected the detention request to be ignored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The San Francisco jail does not honor ICE detainers nor notify ICE about the impending release of aliens in its custody,\" ICE's statement says. \"In doing so, the jail not only provides a refuge for illegal aliens, but it also shields criminal aliens who prey on people in the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors and defense attorneys said the statement from ICE is confusing because San Francisco's sanctuary policies are not at issue in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This person has no criminal history,\" district attorney's spokesman Alex Bastian said. \"This is a state-court case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City and state laws limiting cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration officials would only have affected Vilchez Lazo if he had been in criminal custody before his most recent arrest and was not turned over to ICE, attorneys familiar with the case said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This case has nothing to do with the sanctuary laws in San Francisco,\" deputy public defender Eric Quandt said outside of court Tuesday. \"It has nothing to do with Mr. Vilchez Lazo's immigration status whatsoever. This looks to be an attempt by ICE at advancing their political agenda.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The politicization of the case echoes the national fallout after the 2015 slaying of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kathryn-steinle\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kathryn Steinle\u003c/a> on a pedestrian pier near San Francisco's Ferry Building. Jose Inez Garcia Zarate had been released from San Francisco jail two months before the shooting — despite an ICE detainer — and was charged with murdering Steinle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-presidential candidate Donald \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10622762/the-forgotten-tracking-two-homicides-in-san-francisco-public-housing\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump seized\u003c/a> on the case to criticize so-called \"sanctuary cities\" and as an example of violence committed by immigrants in the country illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia Zarate was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11633296/steinle-trial-verdict\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">acquitted\u003c/a> of the most serious charges after his defense attorneys successfully argued that the shooting was a freak accident: Garcia Zarate had picked up an object wrapped in some kind of cloth while sitting on the pier. It was a gun stolen a few days prior from a U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11624516/federal-agency-promoted-ranger-just-months-after-his-gun-was-stolen-and-used-in-steinle-killing\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bureau of Land Management ranger\u003c/a>, and it went off as he unwrapped it, ricocheting off the concrete pier and traveling another \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11628705/defense-expert-shot-that-killed-kathryn-steinle-fired-from-low-to-the-ground\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">78 feet\u003c/a> before hitting Steinle in the back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jurors did find Garcia Zarate guilty of illegally possessing the gun. He was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11635132/defendant-in-kathryn-steinles-death-indicted-on-federal-gun-charges\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">subsequently charged\u003c/a> with gun possession in federal court and faces a 20-year prison sentence if convicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post Friday, July 13:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A San Mateo man is in jail in San Francisco and facing felony charges for allegedly posing as a driver for a ride-hailing app to lure women into his car and sexually assault them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orlando Vilchez Lazo, 37, was arrested in San Mateo on Thursday under suspicion of dozens of charges stemming from four separate rapes and assaults, San Francisco police Commander Greg McEachern announced at a press conference on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These assaults were violent rapes committed by a serial rapist -- a sexual deviant predator who was not going to stop until he was caught,\" McEachern said, his voice beginning to shake. He apologized for becoming emotional. \"This is the exact thing that everyone fears could happen in this city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first assault was reported in 2013, McEachern said, and the then-unknown assailant's DNA profile was uploaded into a national criminal database. But it didn't match any existing profiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All investigators knew was that an unidentified man had pulled up to a local bar and pretended to be the driver a woman had booked via a \"common rideshare company.\" Police didn't identify which service was involved but said multiple companies cooperated in the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Instead of going home safely and arriving, the driver of that vehicle, on a ruse that he was a rideshare driver, took that victim to another location and sexually assaulted her,\" McEachern said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case sat dormant for five years, and then in late February, it happened again. DNA from that case, as well as the tactics involved, matched the case from 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspect had a sticker or placard identifying him as an app-service driver, police said, and he appears to have used different vehicles in the attacks, according to descriptions from the survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another woman reported a third rape about a week later, and again, the forensics and M.O. matched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's when the Police Department launched a task force and named the case the \"Rideshare Rapist series,\" McEachern said. The task force included several SFPD divisions as well as the district attorney's office and assistance from the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680564\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Orlando-Vilchezlazo.jpg\" alt=\"Orlando Vilchez Lazo, 37, was arrested in San Mateo on Thursday under suspicion of dozens of charges stemming from four separate rapes and assaults.\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11680564\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Orlando-Vilchezlazo.jpg 480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Orlando-Vilchezlazo-160x200.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Orlando-Vilchezlazo-240x300.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Orlando-Vilchezlazo-375x469.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orlando Vilchez Lazo, 37, was arrested in San Mateo on Thursday under suspicion of dozens of charges stemming from four separate rapes and assaults. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of SFPD)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The duties of those task force officers were to author numerous search warrants, follow all investigative leads that we had up to that point, conduct undercover and uniform surveillance and to follow every lead that we could to every location that we could imagine,\" McEachern said. \"We went as far south as San Jose and as far east as Stockton on leads over the last couple of months.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But investigators didn't find their suspect, and a fourth woman reported a sexual assault in June — same tactics, same DNA. The suspect allegedly used a knife to threaten his target, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McEachern said the final break in the case came over the weekend, when undercover officers staking out bars in the South of Market neighborhood, where the suspect had operated before, spotted \"an individual whose behavior and M.O. matched the description from the four previous sexual assaults.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers pulled Orlando Vilchez Lazo over and somehow collected a DNA sample from him. McEachern declined to elaborate on how the sample was obtained, but he said Vilchez Lazo provided it knowingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD's crime lab matched the sample to the most recent rape on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We knew we had the same suspect for all four rapes,\" McEachern said. \"It’s hard to say what was in the mind of an individual like this, but the fact that he’s committed these four rapes over five years led us to believe he was a very dangerous person who wasn’t going to stop until we caught him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vilchez Lazo was arrested Thursday in San Mateo and booked into San Francisco jail under suspicion of dozens of felonies, including false imprisonment, kidnapping, assault with intent to commit rape, sexual penetration with a foreign object and rape, according to the Police Department. He was being held on $4.3 million bail, according to Sheriff's Department records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police couldn't immediately explain the five-year gap in the alleged assaults, but they are asking anyone with information about similar crimes to come forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe there are other victims that may be out there,\" McEachern said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vilchez Lazo has no known criminal record, according to police, and they've been unable to verify whether Vilchez Lazo had ever worked for a ride-hailing company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He appears to have answered a survey conducted by the California Public Utilities Commission in August of 2016, asking respondents for their feelings on whether prospective ride-hailing drivers should be required to submit to fingerprinting. A San Mateo resident with the name Orlando Vilchez voted \"No.\"\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 post includes reporting from The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11680508/s-f-police-announce-arrest-of-alleged-rideshare-rapist","authors":["3206"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1169","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_19542","news_4435","news_23667","news_545","news_1527"],"featImg":"news_11680511","label":"news_72"},"news_11664637":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11664637","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11664637","score":null,"sort":[1524689059000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"suspected-golden-state-killer-a-former-police-officer-arrested-in-sacramento","title":"Suspected Golden State Killer, a Former Police Officer, Arrested in Sacramento","publishDate":1524689059,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>SACRAMENTO — A man once sworn to protect the public from crime was accused Wednesday of living a double life terrorizing suburban neighborhoods at night, becoming one of California's most feared serial killers and rapists in the 1970s and '80s before leaving a cold trail that baffled investigators for more than three decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, was behind bars Wednesday facing four counts of murder and, potentially, dozens of other charges after DNA linked him to crimes attributed to the so-called Golden State Killer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The culprit also known as the East Area Rapist, among other names, is suspected of at least 12 slayings and 50 rapes in 10 counties from Northern to Southern California. The armed and masked prowler sneaked in through windows at night and surprised sleeping victims who ranged in age from 13 to 41.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When encountering a couple, he was known to tie up the man and pile dishes on his back. He threatened to kill both victims if he heard plates crash to the floor while he raped the woman. He then ransacked the house, taking souvenirs, notably coins and jewelry before fleeing on foot or bicycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite an outpouring of thousands of tips over the years, DeAngelo's name had not been on the radar of law enforcement before last week, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We knew we were looking for a needle in a haystack, but we also knew that needle was there,\" she said. \"It was right here in Sacramento.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A break in the case and the arrest came together in \"light speed\" during the past six days, Schubert said, though authorities refused to reveal what led to DeAngelo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11664667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11664667\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SacSheriff-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones speaks about the arrest of accused rapist and killer Joseph James DeAngelo during a news conference on April 25, 2018. District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert (Center) was joined by law enforcement officials from across California to announce DeAngelo's arrest.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SacSheriff-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SacSheriff-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SacSheriff-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SacSheriff-1200x794.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SacSheriff.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SacSheriff-1180x781.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SacSheriff-960x636.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SacSheriff-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SacSheriff-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SacSheriff-520x344.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones speaks about the arrest of accused rapist and killer Joseph James DeAngelo during a news conference on April 25, 2018. Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert (Center) was joined by law enforcement officials from across California to announce DeAngelo's arrest. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones said detectives with \"dogged determination\" were able to get a sample of DNA from something DeAngelo discarded, though he wouldn't say what the item was. The genetic material was not a match, but there were enough similarities for investigators to return for more and they said they were able to get a conclusive match.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After watching DeAngelo for several days, deputies took him by surprise Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It looked like he might have been searching his mind to execute some plan,\" but never had time to act, Jones speculated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeAngelo was arrested on suspicion of committing four killings in Sacramento and Ventura counties, officials said. Ventura County District Attorney Gregory Totten said prosecutors would seek the death penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/FBIMostWanted/status/989227274649026561\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeAngelo, who served in the Navy, was a police officer in Exeter, in the San Joaquin Valley, from 1973 to 1976, at a time a burglar known as the Visalia Ransacker was active, Jones said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He transferred to the force in Auburn in the Sierra foothills near where he grew up outside Sacramento. About 50 crimes, including two killings, were attributed to the East Area Rapist during the three years DeAngelo worked in Auburn, but Jones said it wasn't clear if any were committed while on duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeAngelo was fired from the Auburn department in 1979 after being arrested for stealing a can of dog repellent and a hammer from a drug store, according to Auburn Journal articles from the time. He was convicted of the theft and fined $100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten slayings occurred after he was fired and all took place in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the crimes unfolded across the state, authorities called the attacker by different names. He was dubbed the East Area Rapist after his start in Northern California, the Original Night Stalker after a series of Southern California slayings and the Diamond Knot Killer for using an elaborate binding method on two of his victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was most recently called the Golden State Killer, an appellation \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/02/24/588101430/patton-oswalt-on-his-late-wifes-search-for-the-golden-state-killer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">given to him by the late writer Michelle McNamara\u003c/a>, whose book \"I'll Be Gone In The Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search For The Golden State Killer\" was published this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McNamara's husband, the comedian Patton Oswalt, discussed his late wife's search for the killer on NPR in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/588101430/588500179\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it's unusual for serial killers to stop, Jones said they have no reason to think DeAngelo continued to commit crimes after 1986, when the last rape and killing occurred in Orange County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have no indication of any crimes with a similar or at least a close enough link to his MO and other things that he's done in the past to link him to anything from '86 on,\" Jones said. \"We just have nothing at this point.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones said he always thought the rapist was alive, but might be in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the prosecutors and investigators, the arrest not only marked a significant professional achievement but also a personal one that had touched their formative years and early careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley was a college student volunteering at a rape crisis center and \"sat with survivors who had been assaulted by this guy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wave of horrifying crimes had brought an end to a more innocent era in the Sacramento suburbs when children rode bicycles to school, played outside until dark and people didn't lock their doors, Schubert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It all changed,\" said Schubert, who was 12 at the time. \"For anyone that lived here in this community, in Sacramento, the memories are very vivid. You can ask anyone who grew up here. Everyone has a story.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Totten said he was a young law clerk in the office during the investigation into the 1980 slayings of Lyman and Charlene Smith that \"struck terror in the hearts of Ventura residents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had no idea this killer was connected to so many other crimes,\" Totten said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/help-us-catch-the-east-area-rapist/help-us-catch-the-east-area-rapist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBI and California officials renewed their search\u003c/a> for the East Area Rapist and announced a $50,000 reward for his arrest and conviction. He had been linked to a total of more than 175 crimes between 1976 and 1986.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/help-us-catch-the-east-area-rapist/help-us-catch-the-east-area-rapist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBI created a robust web page\u003c/a> in June 2016, and solicited the public's help in finding the killer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bErC-Sfz8Jk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1999, Orange County sheriff's homicide detectives were able to use DNA to link the Irvine slaying of Keith and Patrice Harrington to nine other slayings in the 1980s in Orange, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. The genetic evidence was later used to connect the same suspect to 50 rapes in Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrington's brother, Bruce, helped bankroll a successful 2004 ballot initiative campaign to take DNA from all convicted felons and some arrestees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To the victims, sleep better tonight, he isn't coming through the window,\" Bruce Harrington said at the news conference announcing the arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane Carson-Sandler was one of the first victims when she was sexually assaulted in 1976 in her home in Citrus Heights, the same community where DeAngelo was arrested at his home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she received an email Wednesday from a retired detective who worked on the case telling her they have identified the rapist and that he's in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have just been overjoyed, ecstatic. It's an emotional roller-coaster right now,\" Carson-Sandler, who now lives near Hilton Head, South Carolina, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. \"I feel like I'm in the middle of a dream and I'm going to wake up and it's not going to be true. It's just so nice to have closure and to know he's in jail.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FBI agents and other investigators were gathering evidence at DeAngelo's neatly kept home on Wednesday. Jones said they were looking for mementos that may have been stolen from victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neighbors said DeAngelo took meticulous care of his house, which was always perfectly painted and his lawn manicured. But he was known for an explosive temper and loud cursing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/latimes/status/989255597752283137\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Tapia said when he was a teenager, DeAngelo falsely accused him of throwing things over their shared fence, prompting a heated exchange between DeAngelo and his father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No one thinks they live next door to a serial killer,\" Tapia said. \"But at the same time I'm just like, he was a weird guy. He kept to himself. When you start to think about it you're like, I could see him doing something like that, but I would never suspect it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Melley reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press Writers Jonathan J. Cooper in Citrus Heights, Sophia Bollag and Kathleen Ronayne in Sacramento, Michael Balsamo in Los Angeles, and Olga Rodriguez, Paul Elias and Juliet Williams in San Francisco contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A DNA match tied Joseph James DeAngelo to some of the crimes committed by a serial killer behind at least 12 homicides and at least 50 rapes throughout California in the 1970s and '80s.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1524704903,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":44,"wordCount":1502},"headData":{"title":"Suspected Golden State Killer, a Former Police Officer, Arrested in Sacramento | KQED","description":"A DNA match tied Joseph James DeAngelo to some of the crimes committed by a serial killer behind at least 12 homicides and at least 50 rapes throughout California in the 1970s and '80s.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11664637 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11664637","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/04/25/suspected-golden-state-killer-a-former-police-officer-arrested-in-sacramento/","disqusTitle":"Suspected Golden State Killer, a Former Police Officer, Arrested in Sacramento","nprByline":"Don Thompson and Brian Melley, Associated Press \u003cbr> KQED News staff","path":"/news/11664637/suspected-golden-state-killer-a-former-police-officer-arrested-in-sacramento","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>SACRAMENTO — A man once sworn to protect the public from crime was accused Wednesday of living a double life terrorizing suburban neighborhoods at night, becoming one of California's most feared serial killers and rapists in the 1970s and '80s before leaving a cold trail that baffled investigators for more than three decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, was behind bars Wednesday facing four counts of murder and, potentially, dozens of other charges after DNA linked him to crimes attributed to the so-called Golden State Killer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The culprit also known as the East Area Rapist, among other names, is suspected of at least 12 slayings and 50 rapes in 10 counties from Northern to Southern California. The armed and masked prowler sneaked in through windows at night and surprised sleeping victims who ranged in age from 13 to 41.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When encountering a couple, he was known to tie up the man and pile dishes on his back. He threatened to kill both victims if he heard plates crash to the floor while he raped the woman. He then ransacked the house, taking souvenirs, notably coins and jewelry before fleeing on foot or bicycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite an outpouring of thousands of tips over the years, DeAngelo's name had not been on the radar of law enforcement before last week, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said.\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>\"We knew we were looking for a needle in a haystack, but we also knew that needle was there,\" she said. \"It was right here in Sacramento.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A break in the case and the arrest came together in \"light speed\" during the past six days, Schubert said, though authorities refused to reveal what led to DeAngelo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11664667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11664667\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SacSheriff-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones speaks about the arrest of accused rapist and killer Joseph James DeAngelo during a news conference on April 25, 2018. District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert (Center) was joined by law enforcement officials from across California to announce DeAngelo's arrest.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SacSheriff-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SacSheriff-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SacSheriff-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SacSheriff-1200x794.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SacSheriff.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SacSheriff-1180x781.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SacSheriff-960x636.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SacSheriff-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SacSheriff-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SacSheriff-520x344.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones speaks about the arrest of accused rapist and killer Joseph James DeAngelo during a news conference on April 25, 2018. Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert (Center) was joined by law enforcement officials from across California to announce DeAngelo's arrest. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones said detectives with \"dogged determination\" were able to get a sample of DNA from something DeAngelo discarded, though he wouldn't say what the item was. The genetic material was not a match, but there were enough similarities for investigators to return for more and they said they were able to get a conclusive match.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After watching DeAngelo for several days, deputies took him by surprise Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It looked like he might have been searching his mind to execute some plan,\" but never had time to act, Jones speculated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeAngelo was arrested on suspicion of committing four killings in Sacramento and Ventura counties, officials said. Ventura County District Attorney Gregory Totten said prosecutors would seek the death penalty.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"989227274649026561"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>DeAngelo, who served in the Navy, was a police officer in Exeter, in the San Joaquin Valley, from 1973 to 1976, at a time a burglar known as the Visalia Ransacker was active, Jones said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He transferred to the force in Auburn in the Sierra foothills near where he grew up outside Sacramento. About 50 crimes, including two killings, were attributed to the East Area Rapist during the three years DeAngelo worked in Auburn, but Jones said it wasn't clear if any were committed while on duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeAngelo was fired from the Auburn department in 1979 after being arrested for stealing a can of dog repellent and a hammer from a drug store, according to Auburn Journal articles from the time. He was convicted of the theft and fined $100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten slayings occurred after he was fired and all took place in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the crimes unfolded across the state, authorities called the attacker by different names. He was dubbed the East Area Rapist after his start in Northern California, the Original Night Stalker after a series of Southern California slayings and the Diamond Knot Killer for using an elaborate binding method on two of his victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was most recently called the Golden State Killer, an appellation \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/02/24/588101430/patton-oswalt-on-his-late-wifes-search-for-the-golden-state-killer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">given to him by the late writer Michelle McNamara\u003c/a>, whose book \"I'll Be Gone In The Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search For The Golden State Killer\" was published this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McNamara's husband, the comedian Patton Oswalt, discussed his late wife's search for the killer on NPR in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/588101430/588500179\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it's unusual for serial killers to stop, Jones said they have no reason to think DeAngelo continued to commit crimes after 1986, when the last rape and killing occurred in Orange County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have no indication of any crimes with a similar or at least a close enough link to his MO and other things that he's done in the past to link him to anything from '86 on,\" Jones said. \"We just have nothing at this point.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones said he always thought the rapist was alive, but might be in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the prosecutors and investigators, the arrest not only marked a significant professional achievement but also a personal one that had touched their formative years and early careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley was a college student volunteering at a rape crisis center and \"sat with survivors who had been assaulted by this guy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wave of horrifying crimes had brought an end to a more innocent era in the Sacramento suburbs when children rode bicycles to school, played outside until dark and people didn't lock their doors, Schubert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It all changed,\" said Schubert, who was 12 at the time. \"For anyone that lived here in this community, in Sacramento, the memories are very vivid. You can ask anyone who grew up here. Everyone has a story.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Totten said he was a young law clerk in the office during the investigation into the 1980 slayings of Lyman and Charlene Smith that \"struck terror in the hearts of Ventura residents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had no idea this killer was connected to so many other crimes,\" Totten said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/help-us-catch-the-east-area-rapist/help-us-catch-the-east-area-rapist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBI and California officials renewed their search\u003c/a> for the East Area Rapist and announced a $50,000 reward for his arrest and conviction. He had been linked to a total of more than 175 crimes between 1976 and 1986.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/help-us-catch-the-east-area-rapist/help-us-catch-the-east-area-rapist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBI created a robust web page\u003c/a> in June 2016, and solicited the public's help in finding the killer.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/bErC-Sfz8Jk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/bErC-Sfz8Jk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In 1999, Orange County sheriff's homicide detectives were able to use DNA to link the Irvine slaying of Keith and Patrice Harrington to nine other slayings in the 1980s in Orange, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. The genetic evidence was later used to connect the same suspect to 50 rapes in Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrington's brother, Bruce, helped bankroll a successful 2004 ballot initiative campaign to take DNA from all convicted felons and some arrestees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To the victims, sleep better tonight, he isn't coming through the window,\" Bruce Harrington said at the news conference announcing the arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane Carson-Sandler was one of the first victims when she was sexually assaulted in 1976 in her home in Citrus Heights, the same community where DeAngelo was arrested at his home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she received an email Wednesday from a retired detective who worked on the case telling her they have identified the rapist and that he's in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have just been overjoyed, ecstatic. It's an emotional roller-coaster right now,\" Carson-Sandler, who now lives near Hilton Head, South Carolina, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. \"I feel like I'm in the middle of a dream and I'm going to wake up and it's not going to be true. It's just so nice to have closure and to know he's in jail.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FBI agents and other investigators were gathering evidence at DeAngelo's neatly kept home on Wednesday. Jones said they were looking for mementos that may have been stolen from victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neighbors said DeAngelo took meticulous care of his house, which was always perfectly painted and his lawn manicured. But he was known for an explosive temper and loud cursing.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"989255597752283137"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Kevin Tapia said when he was a teenager, DeAngelo falsely accused him of throwing things over their shared fence, prompting a heated exchange between DeAngelo and his father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No one thinks they live next door to a serial killer,\" Tapia said. \"But at the same time I'm just like, he was a weird guy. He kept to himself. When you start to think about it you're like, I could see him doing something like that, but I would never suspect it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Melley reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press Writers Jonathan J. Cooper in Citrus Heights, Sophia Bollag and Kathleen Ronayne in Sacramento, Michael Balsamo in Los Angeles, and Olga Rodriguez, Paul Elias and Juliet Williams in San Francisco 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 post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11664637/suspected-golden-state-killer-a-former-police-officer-arrested-in-sacramento","authors":["byline_news_11664637"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_223","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_425","news_19542","news_23081","news_23082","news_4435","news_95","news_23080","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_11664640","label":"news_72"},"news_11652366":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11652366","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11652366","score":null,"sort":[1519766288000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"myriam-gurbas-mean-a-memoir-of-hurt-and-humor","title":"Myriam Gurba's 'Mean': A Memoir of Hurt and Humor","publishDate":1519766288,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Author Myriam Gurba’s latest work, \"Mean,\" is a memoir about coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana on the Central Coast. It’s funny and honest, but it also has a brutal edge to it: The book opens with the rape and murder of a young woman. Gurba's connection to this violent attack is part of the unconventional path through her book. She talked to \u003cem>The California Report's\u003c/em> Sasha Khokha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview was edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So this book has a lot of biting humor in it and in some ways ... it's a love letter to Santa Maria and your childhood there. But one of the through lines of the book is something really painful, which is that you were raped and attacked in Santa Maria by a stranger. What made you decide to revisit that assault some 20 years later?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myriam Gurba: I was interested in writing about rape in ways that I hadn't read before. And so I approached writing about my experience of rape experimentally, and that was what largely motivated the creation of the book. I was also interested in trying to find some sort of meaning in my survival. One of the other women who was attacked by the man who attacked me was murdered by him, and for 20 years I carried around a lot of survivor guilt because I share a lot in common with the other victim that didn't survive. But one of the things we don't share in common is survival. And so I wanted to just sort of construct some sort of meaning to come to some sort of understanding to give myself permission to enjoy being alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-11652373\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29602_Gurba_Mean_9781566894913_1024x1024-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29602_Gurba_Mean_9781566894913_1024x1024-qut.jpg 684w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29602_Gurba_Mean_9781566894913_1024x1024-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29602_Gurba_Mean_9781566894913_1024x1024-qut-240x359.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29602_Gurba_Mean_9781566894913_1024x1024-qut-375x561.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29602_Gurba_Mean_9781566894913_1024x1024-qut-520x778.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">In some ways this is also a ghost story and one of the ghosts in this book is Sophia Torres, a farmworker who was attacked and killed. Why was it important to tell her story, too?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gurba: It felt incredibly important to tell her story because nobody cared. She would frequently be referred to as \"the transient who was bludgeoned to death in Oakley Park.\" That's her legacy, and it became glaringly disgusting to me when the Michael Jackson trial was occurring. His trial happened in Santa Maria at the same courthouse where Tommy Martinez was brought to trial for murdering Sophia Torres and attacking a number of local women, including myself. There was minimal concern for her death. The Jackson case drew international attention and it made me incredibly sad that this woman had such a difficult life from birth. And then [she] endured such a degrading, humiliating death, and that even in death, she was still nobody. In some ways I wanted to make her somebody, at least in death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you see writing about your assault as a way to take back power or be able to tell your side of the story?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gurba: Not necessarily. I don't treat writing as something that's particularly cathartic. In fact, it was really painful and really difficult and I think I actually retraumatized myself at times, because I had to visit certain legal documents that detailed the murder of Sophia Torres. There were details that I did not know about her murder that now live in my memory, that I now have to reconcile and reckon with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Talk about the title of the book, \"Mean.\" The word can translate into vicious or aggressive. Why did you decide to call the book \"Mean\"?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gurba: I like really biting short direct titles. And the book is, in some senses, a celebration of feminine meanness and girlish pettiness and malice. Quite frequently there are anecdotes in the book where girls are engaging in recreational meanness to bond. But in addition to referring to that sort of meanness, I'm also using the word \"mean\" as a shorthand for cruelty. Because the book is also largely a meditation on the nature of cruelty. And on the impact of cruelty. The book is also a meditation on meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The structure of the book is so interesting, because some of the chapters are just a few words or sentences long. Also the arc of \"Mean\"\u003cem> \u003c/em>doesn't follow a literal timeline.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gurba: The structure is meant to give just enough chronology to the reader so that they can trace the vestiges of a linear narrative. But the linear narrative has been disrupted by something: violence. In particular, [this is evident] by beginning the book with such a violent story. I don't inform the reader what my connection to this story is and that's intended to reflect the symptoms of PTSD, particularly the intrusive symptoms where one feels as if they're being ambushed by flashbacks and memories. And so that story is intended to sort of serve as a haunting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Your book is coming out right at the time when this #MeToo movement is gaining steam. How do you feel about the fact that some people are connecting your book with that movement?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gurba: I have very mixed feelings about those connections. On the one hand, I understand why those connections would be drawn because my book focuses largely on misogny and it focuses quite a bit on sexual abuse and sexual violence. However, much of the violence that I describe in the book stands apart from #MeToo's interests, in the sense that much of #MeToo is concerned with how to reform existing relationships. For example, workplace relationships between men and women or relationships that occur within the framework of dating. Whereas the violence that I describe in \"Mean\"\u003cem> \u003c/em>is violence that is largely perpetrated by a stranger. And so that sort of stranger violence doesn't necessarily fit into those frameworks. So I think that a different framework is necessary for discussing that particular kind of violence because the quality and the impact of it are different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> What are you working on now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gurba: I'm working right now on essays about California that focus on regions that haven't necessarily gotten the spotlight. I'm interested in writing about Lampo or Santa Ynez, Santa Maria or Fresno. The parts of California that nobody necessarily makes it a point to visit or shine a spotlight on.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Myriam Gurba’s memoir, \"Mean,\" recounts her painful coming of age on the Central Coast.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1519776737,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":1056},"headData":{"title":"Myriam Gurba's 'Mean': A Memoir of Hurt and Humor | KQED","description":"Myriam Gurba’s memoir, "Mean," recounts her painful coming of age on the Central Coast.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11652366 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11652366","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/02/27/myriam-gurbas-mean-a-memoir-of-hurt-and-humor/","disqusTitle":"Myriam Gurba's 'Mean': A Memoir of Hurt and Humor","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2018/02/meaninterview.mp3","path":"/news/11652366/myriam-gurbas-mean-a-memoir-of-hurt-and-humor","audioDuration":470000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Author Myriam Gurba’s latest work, \"Mean,\" is a memoir about coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana on the Central Coast. It’s funny and honest, but it also has a brutal edge to it: The book opens with the rape and murder of a young woman. Gurba's connection to this violent attack is part of the unconventional path through her book. She talked to \u003cem>The California Report's\u003c/em> Sasha Khokha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview was edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So this book has a lot of biting humor in it and in some ways ... it's a love letter to Santa Maria and your childhood there. But one of the through lines of the book is something really painful, which is that you were raped and attacked in Santa Maria by a stranger. What made you decide to revisit that assault some 20 years later?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myriam Gurba: I was interested in writing about rape in ways that I hadn't read before. And so I approached writing about my experience of rape experimentally, and that was what largely motivated the creation of the book. I was also interested in trying to find some sort of meaning in my survival. One of the other women who was attacked by the man who attacked me was murdered by him, and for 20 years I carried around a lot of survivor guilt because I share a lot in common with the other victim that didn't survive. But one of the things we don't share in common is survival. And so I wanted to just sort of construct some sort of meaning to come to some sort of understanding to give myself permission to enjoy being alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-11652373\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29602_Gurba_Mean_9781566894913_1024x1024-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29602_Gurba_Mean_9781566894913_1024x1024-qut.jpg 684w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29602_Gurba_Mean_9781566894913_1024x1024-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29602_Gurba_Mean_9781566894913_1024x1024-qut-240x359.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29602_Gurba_Mean_9781566894913_1024x1024-qut-375x561.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29602_Gurba_Mean_9781566894913_1024x1024-qut-520x778.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">In some ways this is also a ghost story and one of the ghosts in this book is Sophia Torres, a farmworker who was attacked and killed. Why was it important to tell her story, too?\u003c/strong>\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>Gurba: It felt incredibly important to tell her story because nobody cared. She would frequently be referred to as \"the transient who was bludgeoned to death in Oakley Park.\" That's her legacy, and it became glaringly disgusting to me when the Michael Jackson trial was occurring. His trial happened in Santa Maria at the same courthouse where Tommy Martinez was brought to trial for murdering Sophia Torres and attacking a number of local women, including myself. There was minimal concern for her death. The Jackson case drew international attention and it made me incredibly sad that this woman had such a difficult life from birth. And then [she] endured such a degrading, humiliating death, and that even in death, she was still nobody. In some ways I wanted to make her somebody, at least in death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you see writing about your assault as a way to take back power or be able to tell your side of the story?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gurba: Not necessarily. I don't treat writing as something that's particularly cathartic. In fact, it was really painful and really difficult and I think I actually retraumatized myself at times, because I had to visit certain legal documents that detailed the murder of Sophia Torres. There were details that I did not know about her murder that now live in my memory, that I now have to reconcile and reckon with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Talk about the title of the book, \"Mean.\" The word can translate into vicious or aggressive. Why did you decide to call the book \"Mean\"?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gurba: I like really biting short direct titles. And the book is, in some senses, a celebration of feminine meanness and girlish pettiness and malice. Quite frequently there are anecdotes in the book where girls are engaging in recreational meanness to bond. But in addition to referring to that sort of meanness, I'm also using the word \"mean\" as a shorthand for cruelty. Because the book is also largely a meditation on the nature of cruelty. And on the impact of cruelty. The book is also a meditation on meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The structure of the book is so interesting, because some of the chapters are just a few words or sentences long. Also the arc of \"Mean\"\u003cem> \u003c/em>doesn't follow a literal timeline.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gurba: The structure is meant to give just enough chronology to the reader so that they can trace the vestiges of a linear narrative. But the linear narrative has been disrupted by something: violence. In particular, [this is evident] by beginning the book with such a violent story. I don't inform the reader what my connection to this story is and that's intended to reflect the symptoms of PTSD, particularly the intrusive symptoms where one feels as if they're being ambushed by flashbacks and memories. And so that story is intended to sort of serve as a haunting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Your book is coming out right at the time when this #MeToo movement is gaining steam. How do you feel about the fact that some people are connecting your book with that movement?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gurba: I have very mixed feelings about those connections. On the one hand, I understand why those connections would be drawn because my book focuses largely on misogny and it focuses quite a bit on sexual abuse and sexual violence. However, much of the violence that I describe in the book stands apart from #MeToo's interests, in the sense that much of #MeToo is concerned with how to reform existing relationships. For example, workplace relationships between men and women or relationships that occur within the framework of dating. Whereas the violence that I describe in \"Mean\"\u003cem> \u003c/em>is violence that is largely perpetrated by a stranger. And so that sort of stranger violence doesn't necessarily fit into those frameworks. So I think that a different framework is necessary for discussing that particular kind of violence because the quality and the impact of it are different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> What are you working on now?\u003c/strong>\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>Gurba: I'm working right now on essays about California that focus on regions that haven't necessarily gotten the spotlight. I'm interested in writing about Lampo or Santa Ynez, Santa Maria or Fresno. The parts of California that nobody necessarily makes it a point to visit or shine a spotlight on.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11652366/myriam-gurbas-mean-a-memoir-of-hurt-and-humor","authors":["107"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_223","news_8"],"tags":["news_82","news_20004","news_21804","news_4435","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11652585","label":"news_72"},"news_11642102":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11642102","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11642102","score":null,"sort":[1516096916000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-a-group-of-janitors-started-a-movement-to-stop-sexual-abuse","title":"How a Group of Janitors Started a Movement to Stop Sexual Abuse","publishDate":1516096916,"format":"image","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>In the #MeToo era, KQED is revisiting its groundbreaking “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rape on the Night Shift\u003c/a>” series from 2015. Along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FRONTLINE\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Univision\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://investigativereportingprogram.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley\u003c/a>, KQED uncovered extreme sexual abuses of janitorial workers that went unpunished by their employers.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long before #MeToo went viral, an unlikely group of women – night shift janitors – started their own movement to stand up to the extreme sexual harassment they experience on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It hasn’t been easy. They’ve had to battle resistance from within their own ranks – including jeering from male co-workers. They’ve had to demand that the public and lawmakers pay attention to a problem they’ve lived with for years. They’ve had to put their bodies on the line with a hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-800x761.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"761\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11642096\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-800x761.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-160x152.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-1020x971.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-1180x1123.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-960x914.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-240x228.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-375x357.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-520x495.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch2>Revisiting 'Rape on the Night Shift'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/nations-largest-janitorial-company-faces-new-allegations-of-rape/\" target=\"_blank\">Updated reporting \u003c/a> from Reveal on the nation's largest janitorial company\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How a group of janitors \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/a-group-of-janitors-started-a-movement-to-stop-sexual-abuse/\" target=\"_blank\">started a movement\u003c/a> to stop sexual abuse\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Frontline's updated \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/rape-on-the-night-shift/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Rape on the Night Shift\" documentary\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias/violacion-de-un-sueno\" target=\"_blank\">Univision: en español\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003ch2>Revisit our original reporting from 2015.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cli>Part I: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/working-alone-at-night-janitors-risk-sexual-violence-rape-on-the-night-shift/\">Working Alone, at Night, Janitors Risk Sexual Violence\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Part II: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/whats-government-doing-prevent-janitors-getting-raped-rape-on-the-night-shift/\">What’s the Government Doing to Prevent Janitors From Getting Raped?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Part III: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/former-janitors-go-undercover-to-clean-up-abuses-rape-on-the-night-shift/\">Former Janitors Go Undercover to Clean Up Abuses\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Original\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/under-cover-of-darkness-female-janitors-face-rape-and-assault/\" target=\"_blank\"> in-depth report\u003c/a> by Reveal\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Reportaje detallado por Reveal\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/bajo-la-oscuridad-trabajadoras-de-limpieza-enfrentan-violaciones-y-acoso/\" target=\"_blank\"> en espanol\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It all started in early 2016, when leaders of the janitors union in California got news that shocked them: The vast majority of their members had either witnessed or experienced sexual harassment on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like most unions, the Service Employees International Union-United Service Workers West, which represents janitors in California, had been focused on wages and working conditions. Sexual harassment wasn’t a priority until the union leadership watched the “Rape on the Night Shift” \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/rape-on-the-night-shift/?utm_source=Partner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">documentary\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film was part of a 2015 collaboration among Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program, KQED, FRONTLINE and Univision. The project told the stories of janitors who said their supervisors exploit their power – and the solitude of the night shift – to violently harass them while their employers look the other way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the Rape on the Night Shift investigation, there’s been an effort to find real fixes to an entrenched problem. It’s resulted in policy change, but it’s also activated California’s janitors union and individual workers to combat on-the-job sexual violence in an unprecedented way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, the janitors had to overcome a series of hurdles. Here’s how they did it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The union asked its members about sexual harassment. It was surprised by what it found.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At first, some union leaders didn’t want to take on the issue because it seemed so far afield from what they normally tackle, and they weren’t sure they had the expertise to respond to sexual trauma. But after seeing how severe the problem was, they were motivated to address sexual harassment directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They took the rare step of adding a question about sexual harassment to the survey the union sends to its members in preparation for contract negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results startled them. About half of the 5,000 workers who responded said they had been sexually harassed or sexually assaulted at work, and another quarter had witnessed it. It had become clear to the union that it had to take a more proactive stance.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">\"This was just alarming. As a union that represents predominantly immigrant janitors and 70 percent of them are women, I just said, ‘We can’t be a janitors union if we don’t do anything about this.’ We have to take on this issue that is rampant in this industry.\"\u003ccite> Alejandra Valles, SEIU-USWW secretary-treasurer\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11642110 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Alejandra Valles helped push California's janitors' union to tackle sexual harassment.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alejandra Valles helped push California's janitors' union to tackle sexual harassment. \u003ccite>(Claudio Rocha/FRONTLINE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Then they got the men on board.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the spring of 2016, the union convened a meeting of hundreds of its members to talk about the new labor contract. There, bargaining committee member Veronica Lagunas announced to the crowd that the union planned to make sexual harassment a priority in its contract negotiations with big employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she spoke, a low roar came from the crowd – some men in the audience were booing her. Loudly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union’s president, David Huerta, asked for the microphone and demanded that the men do better.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">\"I just started giving it to them really hard: ‘This is ridiculous. I cannot believe we're going to sit here and one, not let our compañera speak, because that's not what this organization is about. But two, this is a real issue. This is an issue that we have to confront. If the men in this room cannot find it in themselves to fight on this issue, then you have to ask yourself what you're doing here.’ It was just a straight challenge to them.\"\u003ccite>David Huerta, SEIU-USWW president\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That was a turning point for the union. Huerta’s confrontation of the booing men empowered female workers to stand their ground on the issue, and it settled the debate: The union was going to take on sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several weeks later, the California janitors union signed a new contract with the largest cleaning companies in the state, and it included new provisions related to sexual harassment. Now, supervisors would not be allowed to date workers they manage, cleaning companies would have to improve how they conduct sexual harassment investigations, and employers would be required to provide information about a confidential hotline so that workers could seek help if they've been harassed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Lagunas reported the news to the union's membership, no one booed this time around. Instead, there were cheers, and some workers threw their fists in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Advocates found a lawmaker to take the issue to Sacramento.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642109\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11642109 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt='After watching \"Rape on the Night Shift,\" Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-San Diego) was moved to introduce legislation to protect janitors.' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After watching \"Rape on the Night Shift,\" Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-San Diego) was moved to introduce legislation to protect janitors. \u003ccite>(FRONTLINE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon after watching the “Rape on the Night Shift” documentary, a union official nudged Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, a Democrat and former union leader from San Diego, to watch it, too. She said she was outraged by what she saw and decided to seek a legislative response as soon as she could.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">“I watched it twice. I think I spent the whole first time watching the documentary saying, ‘Well, of course this happens, but I can't believe we've never thought about this.’ And then I watched it immediately again, to say, ‘What could we do? What can we do about this? This is not acceptable.’ ”\u003ccite>Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, California assemblywoman\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A few months later, Gonzalez Fletcher introduced the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1978\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Property Services Workers Protection Act\u003c/a>, which aimed to curb sexual harassment in the janitorial industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need for the bill was bolstered by a report from UC Berkeley’s Labor Occupational Health Program, “\u003ca href=\"http://lohp.org/the-perfect-storm/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Perfect Storm\u003c/a>,” which explores the circumstances that make janitors vulnerable to sexual violence at work and cites Rape on the Night Shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">\"A key finding of the report is that the property services industry is structured in a way that isolates workers who are uniquely vulnerable to sexual harassment, and then creates conditions in which workers are afraid to step forward to report harassment.\"\u003ccite>“The Perfect Storm”\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>To build support for the bill, Gonzalez Fletcher asked female janitors to testify about the violence they’d experienced at work. The bill’s supporters also found novel ways to raise awareness of the issue when nearly two dozen female legislators wore janitors’ uniforms to the California State Capitol to show their support for women working the night shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Janitors demanded public attention.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11642108 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt='Janitors march with signs saying \"Ya Basta!\" or \"Enough is Enough!\" to encourage the passage of new laws protecting workers from sexual abuse.' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janitors march with signs saying \"Ya Basta!\" or \"Enough is Enough!\" to encourage the passage of new laws protecting workers from sexual abuse. \u003ccite>(FRONTLINE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From billboards on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to rallies throughout the state, California’s janitors began making noise about sexual harassment in 2016, long before #MeToo captured the headlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At dozens of marches, they held up signs that read, “Ya Basta,” which means “Enough is enough” in Spanish. At a rally in Sacramento, a handful of janitors blocked an intersection and unfurled a banner that read, “End Rape on the Night Shift.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a ready-made group of janitors willing to speak out against sexual harassment. The union and The Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund, an organization that supports non-unionized janitors, had found a way to turn workers into leaders through a new anti-sexual violence program designed for janitors by the East Los Angeles Women’s Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The janitors were trained to assist other women who had been sexually harassed at work, and these “promotoras,” or community-based trainers, were charged with sharing what they’d learned with other women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez Fletcher’s bill gave the first group of promotoras a way to put their training into direct action.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Janitors put their bodies on the line.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642114\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11642114 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Janitor Georgina Hernandez at a hunger strike outside the State Capitol in Sacramento.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janitor Georgina Hernandez at a hunger strike outside the State Capitol in Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Service Employees International Union-United Service Workers West)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For a week in the fall of 2016, a group of about a dozen janitors staged a hunger strike on the lawn in front of the California State Capitol. The promotoras and worker advocates had stationed themselves near the statehouse to put pressure on Gov. Jerry Brown to sign Gonzalez Fletcher’s bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the day, they met with supporters, including famed farmworker organizer Dolores Huerta. They read letters they’d written to their attackers. They shared their stories of assault and rape. Each day, as the sun set, they left their posts near the Capitol to sleep at a local church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the afternoon of the fourth day of fasting, a member of the governor’s staff walked from the Capitol toward the group of women. As she approached, she told them that the governor wanted them to know that he had just signed the bill. The staff member showed the women a picture of the signed document on her phone. They gathered around her to look at it in disbelief before tearfully collapsing into a group hug.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">“We have made history. I feel very proud that all of us opened up this space and we broke that silence. We made history, being that we are poor, we are humble, we come from the bottom. It doesn’t matter what your status is, it doesn’t matter the color of your skin – nobody should harm your body because no means no.”\u003ccite>Martha Mejia, janitor and hunger striker\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Now the law requires anti-sexual harassment training for all janitors, and employers that don’t comply by 2019 can’t do business in California. And because the industry is filled with many black market and fly-by-night companies, it also creates a registry of janitorial companies so bad actors can be held accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worker rights and anti-sexual violence organizations that pushed for the bill also have come together to start the Ya Basta Coalition. The group is working on creating more effective anti-sexual harassment training for all low-income workers. Some serve on a government advisory committee to implement the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>They trained themselves in self-defense.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642112\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11642112 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Janitors learn how to fend off attackers on the job at a self-defense class.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janitors learn how to fend off attackers on the job at a self-defense class. \u003ccite>(FRONTLINE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a Saturday morning last month, nearly a dozen female janitors wearing black T-shirts emblazoned with the words “Ya basta” learned to punch, kick and jab an attacker by practicing on imposing plastic dummies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They had gathered at the union headquarters in Los Angeles to learn how to defend themselves against aggressors as they worked on the night shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through live demonstrations and role play, they were taught how to be fully aware of their environment, how to exude confidence and how to state loudly and unequivocally that they do not want to be propositioned or touched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the first self-defense class for janitors hosted by The Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund. But it was just the beginning. Lilia Garcia-Brower, the organization’s executive director, said she plans to take this training to the buildings where the janitors work at night. The hope is that each cleaner will teach these techniques to a co-worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">“We're essentially looking to create an army of female janitors who are committed to go out and talk to as many female janitors as possible so that they too can understand that they have the power within them to defend themselves and society is wrong. And as we go one by one, one worker at a time, we're going to get there to make that shift.”\u003ccite>Lilia Garcia-Brower, executive director of The Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Garcia-Brower said the class isn’t just about throwing a punch – it’s also about teaching women that they have the power to expect a safe workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"Rape on the Night Shift\" is an investigative collaboration between KQED, \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FRONTLINE\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Univision\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://investigativereportingprogram.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11642070\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-800x63.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"63\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-800x63.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-160x13.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-240x19.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-375x29.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-520x41.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos.png 865w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The reforms came after the 'Rape on the Night Shift' project first uncovered pervasive sexual violence in the janitorial industry.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1516306591,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":40,"wordCount":2283},"headData":{"title":"How a Group of Janitors Started a Movement to Stop Sexual Abuse | KQED","description":"The reforms came after the 'Rape on the Night Shift' project first uncovered pervasive sexual violence in the janitorial industry.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11642102 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11642102","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/01/16/how-a-group-of-janitors-started-a-movement-to-stop-sexual-abuse/","disqusTitle":"How a Group of Janitors Started a Movement to Stop Sexual Abuse","source":"Reveal","sourceUrl":"https://www.revealnews.org","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=”https://www.revealnews.org/author/bernice-yeung/”>Bernice Yeung\u003c/a>\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\">Reveal\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/11642102/how-a-group-of-janitors-started-a-movement-to-stop-sexual-abuse","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>In the #MeToo era, KQED is revisiting its groundbreaking “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rape on the Night Shift\u003c/a>” series from 2015. Along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FRONTLINE\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Univision\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://investigativereportingprogram.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley\u003c/a>, KQED uncovered extreme sexual abuses of janitorial workers that went unpunished by their employers.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long before #MeToo went viral, an unlikely group of women – night shift janitors – started their own movement to stand up to the extreme sexual harassment they experience on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It hasn’t been easy. They’ve had to battle resistance from within their own ranks – including jeering from male co-workers. They’ve had to demand that the public and lawmakers pay attention to a problem they’ve lived with for years. They’ve had to put their bodies on the line with a hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-800x761.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"761\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11642096\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-800x761.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-160x152.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-1020x971.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-1180x1123.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-960x914.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-240x228.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-375x357.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28881_night-shift-3-qut-520x495.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch2>Revisiting 'Rape on the Night Shift'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/nations-largest-janitorial-company-faces-new-allegations-of-rape/\" target=\"_blank\">Updated reporting \u003c/a> from Reveal on the nation's largest janitorial company\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How a group of janitors \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/a-group-of-janitors-started-a-movement-to-stop-sexual-abuse/\" target=\"_blank\">started a movement\u003c/a> to stop sexual abuse\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Frontline's updated \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/rape-on-the-night-shift/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Rape on the Night Shift\" documentary\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias/violacion-de-un-sueno\" target=\"_blank\">Univision: en español\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003ch2>Revisit our original reporting from 2015.\u003c/h2>\n\u003cli>Part I: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/working-alone-at-night-janitors-risk-sexual-violence-rape-on-the-night-shift/\">Working Alone, at Night, Janitors Risk Sexual Violence\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Part II: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/whats-government-doing-prevent-janitors-getting-raped-rape-on-the-night-shift/\">What’s the Government Doing to Prevent Janitors From Getting Raped?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Part III: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/former-janitors-go-undercover-to-clean-up-abuses-rape-on-the-night-shift/\">Former Janitors Go Undercover to Clean Up Abuses\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Original\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/under-cover-of-darkness-female-janitors-face-rape-and-assault/\" target=\"_blank\"> in-depth report\u003c/a> by Reveal\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Reportaje detallado por Reveal\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/bajo-la-oscuridad-trabajadoras-de-limpieza-enfrentan-violaciones-y-acoso/\" target=\"_blank\"> en espanol\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It all started in early 2016, when leaders of the janitors union in California got news that shocked them: The vast majority of their members had either witnessed or experienced sexual harassment on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like most unions, the Service Employees International Union-United Service Workers West, which represents janitors in California, had been focused on wages and working conditions. Sexual harassment wasn’t a priority until the union leadership watched the “Rape on the Night Shift” \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/rape-on-the-night-shift/?utm_source=Partner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">documentary\u003c/a>.\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 film was part of a 2015 collaboration among Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program, KQED, FRONTLINE and Univision. The project told the stories of janitors who said their supervisors exploit their power – and the solitude of the night shift – to violently harass them while their employers look the other way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the Rape on the Night Shift investigation, there’s been an effort to find real fixes to an entrenched problem. It’s resulted in policy change, but it’s also activated California’s janitors union and individual workers to combat on-the-job sexual violence in an unprecedented way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, the janitors had to overcome a series of hurdles. Here’s how they did it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The union asked its members about sexual harassment. It was surprised by what it found.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At first, some union leaders didn’t want to take on the issue because it seemed so far afield from what they normally tackle, and they weren’t sure they had the expertise to respond to sexual trauma. But after seeing how severe the problem was, they were motivated to address sexual harassment directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They took the rare step of adding a question about sexual harassment to the survey the union sends to its members in preparation for contract negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results startled them. About half of the 5,000 workers who responded said they had been sexually harassed or sexually assaulted at work, and another quarter had witnessed it. It had become clear to the union that it had to take a more proactive stance.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">\"This was just alarming. As a union that represents predominantly immigrant janitors and 70 percent of them are women, I just said, ‘We can’t be a janitors union if we don’t do anything about this.’ We have to take on this issue that is rampant in this industry.\"\u003ccite> Alejandra Valles, SEIU-USWW secretary-treasurer\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11642110 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Alejandra Valles helped push California's janitors' union to tackle sexual harassment.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28884_Alejandra-Valles-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alejandra Valles helped push California's janitors' union to tackle sexual harassment. \u003ccite>(Claudio Rocha/FRONTLINE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Then they got the men on board.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the spring of 2016, the union convened a meeting of hundreds of its members to talk about the new labor contract. There, bargaining committee member Veronica Lagunas announced to the crowd that the union planned to make sexual harassment a priority in its contract negotiations with big employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she spoke, a low roar came from the crowd – some men in the audience were booing her. Loudly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union’s president, David Huerta, asked for the microphone and demanded that the men do better.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">\"I just started giving it to them really hard: ‘This is ridiculous. I cannot believe we're going to sit here and one, not let our compañera speak, because that's not what this organization is about. But two, this is a real issue. This is an issue that we have to confront. If the men in this room cannot find it in themselves to fight on this issue, then you have to ask yourself what you're doing here.’ It was just a straight challenge to them.\"\u003ccite>David Huerta, SEIU-USWW president\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That was a turning point for the union. Huerta’s confrontation of the booing men empowered female workers to stand their ground on the issue, and it settled the debate: The union was going to take on sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several weeks later, the California janitors union signed a new contract with the largest cleaning companies in the state, and it included new provisions related to sexual harassment. Now, supervisors would not be allowed to date workers they manage, cleaning companies would have to improve how they conduct sexual harassment investigations, and employers would be required to provide information about a confidential hotline so that workers could seek help if they've been harassed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Lagunas reported the news to the union's membership, no one booed this time around. Instead, there were cheers, and some workers threw their fists in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Advocates found a lawmaker to take the issue to Sacramento.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642109\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11642109 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt='After watching \"Rape on the Night Shift,\" Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-San Diego) was moved to introduce legislation to protect janitors.' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28885_Lorena-Gonzalez-Fletcher-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After watching \"Rape on the Night Shift,\" Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-San Diego) was moved to introduce legislation to protect janitors. \u003ccite>(FRONTLINE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon after watching the “Rape on the Night Shift” documentary, a union official nudged Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, a Democrat and former union leader from San Diego, to watch it, too. She said she was outraged by what she saw and decided to seek a legislative response as soon as she could.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">“I watched it twice. I think I spent the whole first time watching the documentary saying, ‘Well, of course this happens, but I can't believe we've never thought about this.’ And then I watched it immediately again, to say, ‘What could we do? What can we do about this? This is not acceptable.’ ”\u003ccite>Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, California assemblywoman\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A few months later, Gonzalez Fletcher introduced the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1978\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Property Services Workers Protection Act\u003c/a>, which aimed to curb sexual harassment in the janitorial industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need for the bill was bolstered by a report from UC Berkeley’s Labor Occupational Health Program, “\u003ca href=\"http://lohp.org/the-perfect-storm/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Perfect Storm\u003c/a>,” which explores the circumstances that make janitors vulnerable to sexual violence at work and cites Rape on the Night Shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">\"A key finding of the report is that the property services industry is structured in a way that isolates workers who are uniquely vulnerable to sexual harassment, and then creates conditions in which workers are afraid to step forward to report harassment.\"\u003ccite>“The Perfect Storm”\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>To build support for the bill, Gonzalez Fletcher asked female janitors to testify about the violence they’d experienced at work. The bill’s supporters also found novel ways to raise awareness of the issue when nearly two dozen female legislators wore janitors’ uniforms to the California State Capitol to show their support for women working the night shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Janitors demanded public attention.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11642108 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt='Janitors march with signs saying \"Ya Basta!\" or \"Enough is Enough!\" to encourage the passage of new laws protecting workers from sexual abuse.' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28886_March-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janitors march with signs saying \"Ya Basta!\" or \"Enough is Enough!\" to encourage the passage of new laws protecting workers from sexual abuse. \u003ccite>(FRONTLINE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From billboards on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to rallies throughout the state, California’s janitors began making noise about sexual harassment in 2016, long before #MeToo captured the headlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At dozens of marches, they held up signs that read, “Ya Basta,” which means “Enough is enough” in Spanish. At a rally in Sacramento, a handful of janitors blocked an intersection and unfurled a banner that read, “End Rape on the Night Shift.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a ready-made group of janitors willing to speak out against sexual harassment. The union and The Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund, an organization that supports non-unionized janitors, had found a way to turn workers into leaders through a new anti-sexual violence program designed for janitors by the East Los Angeles Women’s Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The janitors were trained to assist other women who had been sexually harassed at work, and these “promotoras,” or community-based trainers, were charged with sharing what they’d learned with other women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez Fletcher’s bill gave the first group of promotoras a way to put their training into direct action.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Janitors put their bodies on the line.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642114\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11642114 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Janitor Georgina Hernandez at a hunger strike outside the State Capitol in Sacramento.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28889_IMG_4545-2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janitor Georgina Hernandez at a hunger strike outside the State Capitol in Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Service Employees International Union-United Service Workers West)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For a week in the fall of 2016, a group of about a dozen janitors staged a hunger strike on the lawn in front of the California State Capitol. The promotoras and worker advocates had stationed themselves near the statehouse to put pressure on Gov. Jerry Brown to sign Gonzalez Fletcher’s bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the day, they met with supporters, including famed farmworker organizer Dolores Huerta. They read letters they’d written to their attackers. They shared their stories of assault and rape. Each day, as the sun set, they left their posts near the Capitol to sleep at a local church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the afternoon of the fourth day of fasting, a member of the governor’s staff walked from the Capitol toward the group of women. As she approached, she told them that the governor wanted them to know that he had just signed the bill. The staff member showed the women a picture of the signed document on her phone. They gathered around her to look at it in disbelief before tearfully collapsing into a group hug.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">“We have made history. I feel very proud that all of us opened up this space and we broke that silence. We made history, being that we are poor, we are humble, we come from the bottom. It doesn’t matter what your status is, it doesn’t matter the color of your skin – nobody should harm your body because no means no.”\u003ccite>Martha Mejia, janitor and hunger striker\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Now the law requires anti-sexual harassment training for all janitors, and employers that don’t comply by 2019 can’t do business in California. And because the industry is filled with many black market and fly-by-night companies, it also creates a registry of janitorial companies so bad actors can be held accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worker rights and anti-sexual violence organizations that pushed for the bill also have come together to start the Ya Basta Coalition. The group is working on creating more effective anti-sexual harassment training for all low-income workers. Some serve on a government advisory committee to implement the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>They trained themselves in self-defense.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11642112\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11642112 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Janitors learn how to fend off attackers on the job at a self-defense class.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28887_Self-Defense-Class-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janitors learn how to fend off attackers on the job at a self-defense class. \u003ccite>(FRONTLINE)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a Saturday morning last month, nearly a dozen female janitors wearing black T-shirts emblazoned with the words “Ya basta” learned to punch, kick and jab an attacker by practicing on imposing plastic dummies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They had gathered at the union headquarters in Los Angeles to learn how to defend themselves against aggressors as they worked on the night shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through live demonstrations and role play, they were taught how to be fully aware of their environment, how to exude confidence and how to state loudly and unequivocally that they do not want to be propositioned or touched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the first self-defense class for janitors hosted by The Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund. But it was just the beginning. Lilia Garcia-Brower, the organization’s executive director, said she plans to take this training to the buildings where the janitors work at night. The hope is that each cleaner will teach these techniques to a co-worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote aligncenter\">“We're essentially looking to create an army of female janitors who are committed to go out and talk to as many female janitors as possible so that they too can understand that they have the power within them to defend themselves and society is wrong. And as we go one by one, one worker at a time, we're going to get there to make that shift.”\u003ccite>Lilia Garcia-Brower, executive director of The Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Garcia-Brower said the class isn’t just about throwing a punch – it’s also about teaching women that they have the power to expect a safe workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"Rape on the Night Shift\" is an investigative collaboration between KQED, \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FRONTLINE\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.univision.com/noticias\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Univision\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://investigativereportingprogram.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley\u003c/a>.\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>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11642070\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-800x63.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"63\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-800x63.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-160x13.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-240x19.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-375x29.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos-520x41.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/logos.png 865w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11642102/how-a-group-of-janitors-started-a-movement-to-stop-sexual-abuse","authors":["byline_news_11642102"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_19948","news_21804","news_18239","news_4435","news_1527","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11642105","label":"source_news_11642102"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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