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That federal law prohibits schools from sex-based discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This package is a crucial step in creating a system of compliance and oversight that will increase transparency and accountability to address and prevent sex discrimination and harassment on college campuses,” said Fong (D-Monterey Park). “While there is still much work ahead, I am confident in the impact this legislative package will have for campus communities, especially students and staff. I look forward to continual collaboration between the Legislature and all California’s higher education institutions to address this issue of safety and equity on campus.”[aside postID=\"news_11955960\" label=\"Related Story\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 12 bills include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB810/id/2766210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AB 810\u003c/a>, from Assemblymember Laura Friedman (D-Burbank) would require all public colleges and universities to use UC Davis’ policy to conduct employment verification checks to determine if a job applicant for any athletic, academic or administrative position had any substantial misconduct allegations from their previous employer.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1790/id/2869964\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1790/id/2869964\">AB 1790\u003c/a>, from Assemblymember Damon Connolly (D-San Rafael) would require CSU to implement recommendations made in a Title IX report conducted last year by the California State Auditor by Jan. 1, 2026. That report found the 23-campus system lacked resources and failed to carry out its Title IX responsibilities.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1905/id/2900190\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AB 1905\u003c/a>, from Assemblymember Dawn Addis (D-San Luis Obispo) would create parameters around employee retreat rights, letters of recommendations and settlements for administrators who have a substantiated sexual harassment complaint against them.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2047/id/2912487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AB 2047\u003c/a>, from Fong, would create an independent, statewide Title IX office to assist the community colleges, CSU and UC systems with Title IX monitoring and compliance, and create a statewide Title IX coordinator.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2048/id/2912488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AB 2048\u003c/a>, from Fong, would require each community college district and each CSU and UC campus to have an independent Title IX office.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2326/id/2925395\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AB 2326\u003c/a>, from Assemblymember David Alvarez (D-Chula Vista) would create entities responsible for ensuring campus programs are free from discrimination and would require the community colleges, CSU and UC to annually present to the Legislature how their systems are actively preventing discrimination.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2407/id/2925478\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AB 2407\u003c/a>, from Assemblymember Gregg Hart (D-Santa Barbara) would require the California State Auditor to audit the community colleges, CSU and UC systems every three years on their ability to address and prevent sexual harassment on the campuses.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2492/id/2927222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AB 2492\u003c/a>, from Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin (D-Thousand Oaks) would create additional positions on college campuses to assist students, faculty and staff during the adjudication of sexual harassment complaints.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2608/id/2928943\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AB 2608\u003c/a>, from Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel (D-Encino)would require campuses to offer drug-facilitated sexual assault prevention training.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2987/id/2932297\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2987/id/2932297\">AB 2987\u003c/a>, from Assemblymember Liz Ortega (D-Hayward) would mandate that the community colleges and CSU provide timely updates on the outcomes of sexual discrimination and harassment cases to the people involved. The bill would request the same of UC.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB1166/id/2929096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB1166/id/2929096\">Senate Bill 1166\u003c/a>, from Sen. Bill Dodd, would establish annual reporting requirements for the community colleges and CSU to conduct a report on sexual harassment complaint outcomes and a summary of how each campus worked to prevent sex discrimination. The bill would request the same of UC.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB1491/id/2932771\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB1491/id/2932771\">SB 1491\u003c/a>, from Sen. Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Hayward) would create a notification process for students who attend private institutions to disclose discriminatory events to the U.S. Department of Education, even if their college or university is exempt from Title IX.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The slate of bills follows a series of news nationally and statewide about\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/terms/title-ix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https://edsource.org/terms/title-ix\"> mishandled Title IX cases\u003c/a>. Last year, the CSU system was found to have mishandled a variety of cases, based on reports from an independent law firm and the \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/california-state-auditor-also-finds-cal-state-failed-to-address-some-sexual-harassment-on-campuses/694251\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https://edsource.org/2023/california-state-auditor-also-finds-cal-state-failed-to-address-some-sexual-harassment-on-campuses/694251\">state auditor\u003c/a>. CSU is currently implementing the changes and reforms called for in both reports, and it has already \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/faculty-perk-at-center-of-issues-that-led-to-castro-resignation-in-use-on-other-csu-campuses/675356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https://edsource.org/2022/faculty-perk-at-center-of-issues-that-led-to-castro-resignation-in-use-on-other-csu-campuses/675356\">changed its policy\u003c/a> allowing administrators who have committed misconduct to “retreat” to faculty positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether it’s sexual harassment, gender-based discrimination or any other form of misconduct, no student should feel unsafe or unwelcome in their learning environment,” said Lisa Baker, a representative from the student senate for California Community Colleges. “Unfortunately, harassment remains prevalent on college campuses, potentially affecting students’ mental health and academic performance. We students and future students, are relying on Title IX and this package of bills for our success.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California lawmakers introduced a series of bills on Monday to prevent and address sexual discrimination and harassment in the state’s colleges and universities.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1712091135,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":8,"wordCount":781},"headData":{"title":"California Lawmakers Propose New Measures to Combat Sexual Harassment in Higher Education | KQED","description":"California lawmakers introduced a series of bills on Monday to prevent and address sexual discrimination and harassment in the state’s colleges and universities.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Lawmakers Propose New Measures to Combat Sexual Harassment in Higher Education","datePublished":"2024-04-02T21:00:25.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-02T20:52:15.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Ashley A. Smith","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11981607/california-lawmakers-propose-new-measures-to-combat-sexual-harassment-in-higher-education","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California lawmakers introduced a series of bills on Monday to prevent and address sexual discrimination and harassment in the state’s colleges and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 12-bill package led by Assemblymember Mike Fong, who chairs the Assembly Higher Education Committee, follows a \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2024/students-and-faculty-distrust-state-college-systems-handling-of-title-ix-cases/705360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https://edsource.org/2024/students-and-faculty-distrust-state-college-systems-handling-of-title-ix-cases/705360\">report released in February\u003c/a> that detailed significant deficiencies in how the University of California, California State University and California Community Colleges handle Title IX. That federal law prohibits schools from sex-based discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This package is a crucial step in creating a system of compliance and oversight that will increase transparency and accountability to address and prevent sex discrimination and harassment on college campuses,” said Fong (D-Monterey Park). “While there is still much work ahead, I am confident in the impact this legislative package will have for campus communities, especially students and staff. I look forward to continual collaboration between the Legislature and all California’s higher education institutions to address this issue of safety and equity on campus.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11955960","label":"Related Story "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 12 bills include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB810/id/2766210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AB 810\u003c/a>, from Assemblymember Laura Friedman (D-Burbank) would require all public colleges and universities to use UC Davis’ policy to conduct employment verification checks to determine if a job applicant for any athletic, academic or administrative position had any substantial misconduct allegations from their previous employer.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1790/id/2869964\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1790/id/2869964\">AB 1790\u003c/a>, from Assemblymember Damon Connolly (D-San Rafael) would require CSU to implement recommendations made in a Title IX report conducted last year by the California State Auditor by Jan. 1, 2026. That report found the 23-campus system lacked resources and failed to carry out its Title IX responsibilities.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1905/id/2900190\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AB 1905\u003c/a>, from Assemblymember Dawn Addis (D-San Luis Obispo) would create parameters around employee retreat rights, letters of recommendations and settlements for administrators who have a substantiated sexual harassment complaint against them.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2047/id/2912487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AB 2047\u003c/a>, from Fong, would create an independent, statewide Title IX office to assist the community colleges, CSU and UC systems with Title IX monitoring and compliance, and create a statewide Title IX coordinator.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2048/id/2912488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AB 2048\u003c/a>, from Fong, would require each community college district and each CSU and UC campus to have an independent Title IX office.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2326/id/2925395\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AB 2326\u003c/a>, from Assemblymember David Alvarez (D-Chula Vista) would create entities responsible for ensuring campus programs are free from discrimination and would require the community colleges, CSU and UC to annually present to the Legislature how their systems are actively preventing discrimination.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2407/id/2925478\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AB 2407\u003c/a>, from Assemblymember Gregg Hart (D-Santa Barbara) would require the California State Auditor to audit the community colleges, CSU and UC systems every three years on their ability to address and prevent sexual harassment on the campuses.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2492/id/2927222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AB 2492\u003c/a>, from Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin (D-Thousand Oaks) would create additional positions on college campuses to assist students, faculty and staff during the adjudication of sexual harassment complaints.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2608/id/2928943\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AB 2608\u003c/a>, from Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel (D-Encino)would require campuses to offer drug-facilitated sexual assault prevention training.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2987/id/2932297\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2987/id/2932297\">AB 2987\u003c/a>, from Assemblymember Liz Ortega (D-Hayward) would mandate that the community colleges and CSU provide timely updates on the outcomes of sexual discrimination and harassment cases to the people involved. The bill would request the same of UC.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB1166/id/2929096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB1166/id/2929096\">Senate Bill 1166\u003c/a>, from Sen. Bill Dodd, would establish annual reporting requirements for the community colleges and CSU to conduct a report on sexual harassment complaint outcomes and a summary of how each campus worked to prevent sex discrimination. The bill would request the same of UC.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB1491/id/2932771\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB1491/id/2932771\">SB 1491\u003c/a>, from Sen. Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Hayward) would create a notification process for students who attend private institutions to disclose discriminatory events to the U.S. Department of Education, even if their college or university is exempt from Title IX.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The slate of bills follows a series of news nationally and statewide about\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/terms/title-ix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https://edsource.org/terms/title-ix\"> mishandled Title IX cases\u003c/a>. Last year, the CSU system was found to have mishandled a variety of cases, based on reports from an independent law firm and the \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/california-state-auditor-also-finds-cal-state-failed-to-address-some-sexual-harassment-on-campuses/694251\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https://edsource.org/2023/california-state-auditor-also-finds-cal-state-failed-to-address-some-sexual-harassment-on-campuses/694251\">state auditor\u003c/a>. CSU is currently implementing the changes and reforms called for in both reports, and it has already \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/faculty-perk-at-center-of-issues-that-led-to-castro-resignation-in-use-on-other-csu-campuses/675356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https://edsource.org/2022/faculty-perk-at-center-of-issues-that-led-to-castro-resignation-in-use-on-other-csu-campuses/675356\">changed its policy\u003c/a> allowing administrators who have committed misconduct to “retreat” to faculty positions.\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>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether it’s sexual harassment, gender-based discrimination or any other form of misconduct, no student should feel unsafe or unwelcome in their learning environment,” said Lisa Baker, a representative from the student senate for California Community Colleges. “Unfortunately, harassment remains prevalent on college campuses, potentially affecting students’ mental health and academic performance. We students and future students, are relying on Title IX and this package of bills for our success.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11981607/california-lawmakers-propose-new-measures-to-combat-sexual-harassment-in-higher-education","authors":["byline_news_11981607"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_18085","news_18738","news_20228","news_2838","news_6699"],"affiliates":["news_33681"],"featImg":"news_11981615","label":"news_33681"},"news_11964513":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11964513","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11964513","score":null,"sort":[1697288439000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"3-board-members-resign-from-berkeley-public-access-tv-station-calling-it-unsafe-environment-for-youth-women-of-color","title":"3 Board Members Resign From Berkeley Public Access TV Station, Calling It Unsafe Environment","publishDate":1697288439,"format":"standard","headTitle":"3 Board Members Resign From Berkeley Public Access TV Station, Calling It Unsafe Environment | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Three board members of Berkeley’s public access television station resigned this week, accusing the organization of failing to responsibly address several alleged instances of sexual harassment and discrimination at the facility, which they said made it an unsafe environment for youth and other vulnerable groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former board members of the nonprofit Berkeley Community Media (BCM), who are all women of color, said the allegations date back to the spring of 2022, but that they only became aware of them earlier this year, when staff members approached the board, reporting “sexual harassment, an unsafe work environment, microaggressions, race-based discrimination, and gender-based violence.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Cristina Trujillo, former Berkeley Community Media board member\"]‘There needs to be an agency that comes and investigates all of this because we are very concerned about the staff that remains there.’[/pullquote]“Since March, the three resigning board members have tirelessly endeavored to enact structural changes to ensure a safe environment, particularly for youth and vulnerable staff members,” Leena Duwadi, Barbie Penn and Cristina Trujillo, the former board members, said in a joint statement on Monday. “However, their efforts have yielded fruitless months marked by an alarming increase in animosity from senior staff towards the harmed employee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the board’s remaining seven members, there are now no women of color, Trujillo told KQED, and called for “a complete overhaul of leadership, beginning with the executive director.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There needs to be an agency that comes and investigates all of this because we are very concerned about the staff that remains there,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the resignation announcement this week, David Flores, BCM’s executive director, confirmed to KQED that there were “two unfortunate instances of sexual harassment,” but that the center has since addressed the issues and updated its member policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first allegation was made in May 2022 when a youth intern said they were sexually harassed by an adult male inside the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After asking a series of personal questions, the man asked the intern to stand up and turn around so he could “ take a look at them,” according to Jules Menyhart, a former technician at the station who quit in March, citing a hostile work environment. Menyhart did not witness the alleged incident, but recounted it on behalf of the intern, who declined to comment and asked to remain anonymous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED typically does not identify potential victims of sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menyhart said the alleged perpetrator is an elderly man who paid the station to use its media facilities. Following the allegation, BCM managers gave the man a warning and said he could only enter the facility outside of regular business hours, said Menyhart, who called the response far too lenient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcmtv.org/about/\">BCM\u003c/a> — which receives some funding from the city of Berkeley — has produced and aired local TV programming, offered classes and allowed local residents to use its media production resources for a small membership fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964818\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/BCM_Final.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11964818\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/BCM_Final.jpg\" alt='A large gray, official-looking building, with a lit up \"open\" sign in one window.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1128\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/BCM_Final.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/BCM_Final-800x470.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/BCM_Final-1020x599.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/BCM_Final-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/BCM_Final-1536x902.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An ‘Open’ sign shines in the window of Berkeley Community Media, located inside the mostly vacant Maudelle Shirek Building near downtown Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Flores acknowledged that the organization’s previous harassment policy — which it recently updated — “was pretty nebulous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just had two categories of harassment, it was either a major incident or a minor incident, major being extreme or persistent. And then everything else was minor, which was addressed with first a warning, then a six-month suspension, then a nine-month suspension,” he said. “And if it went past that it would be escalated to major and major was just you’re immediately kicked out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “It’s just been stressful because, you know, sexual harassment is a very nuanced thing, I’ve come to learn, because I didn’t have a background with HR when all this began.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some six months later, in November 2022, a staff member at the station alleged they were solicited for sex work by an adult male intern, according to a subsequent police report. The man “approached her and stated, ‘I am looking for a sex worker. Let me know if you know any,’ while looking at (the employee) up and down,” the police report reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also states that the man was prohibited from entering the station after the incident but had nevertheless returned and was attempting to appeal the ban.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"sexual-harassment\"]Speaking on behalf of the alleged victim, who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation, Menyhart, who uses the pronoun they, says they and their co-workers felt unsafe at the station because they said Flores did not enforce the ban against the alleged offender out of concern that he would violently retaliate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The executive director told us that he is afraid to kick this man out because, quote, he’s afraid that he might bring a gun,” Menyhart said. “We were both incredibly scared. You don’t just bring up a gun out of nowhere. Like, that’s our lives. You’re making us feel like if we report sexual harassment, we’ll die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flores contends that Menyhart and other concerned staff members had come into his office unannounced demanding to speak about the incidents, and had subsequently mischaracterized his response to their question about why BCM couldn’t simply kick someone out without due process. And he said he only mentioned the gun threat as a “extreme” example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Menyhart and other staff members dissatisfied with the organization’s response to the alleged incidents, brought the issue to the attention of the board, who subsequently voted to expel both of the alleged perpetrators from the center, Flores said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon learning of both alleged incidents, the African American Studies Department and Arts and Humanities Academy at Berkeley High School, which has a longstanding relationship with BCM and \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2018/06/22/berkeley-community-media-calls-it-a-wrap-prepares-for-its-sequel#:~:text=Berkeley%20Community%20Media%20is%20packing,20%20years%20on%20the%20campus.\">until recently housed its studio\u003c/a>, sent letters in March threatening to cut ties with the station if the issue was not properly dealt with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, after hearing the issues regarding sexual harassment and racism, and neglecting to properly handle the issue, we do not feel comfortable working with BCM unless this is effectively addressed,” one letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964376\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231012-BerkeleyMedia-006-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11964376\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231012-BerkeleyMedia-006-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with long hair and glasses stands in a park looking at the camera.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231012-BerkeleyMedia-006-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231012-BerkeleyMedia-006-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231012-BerkeleyMedia-006-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231012-BerkeleyMedia-006-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231012-BerkeleyMedia-006-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231012-BerkeleyMedia-006-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Berkeley Community Media employee Jules Menyhart in Willow Park in West Oakland on Oct. 12, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>BCM member policy, Flores said, was recently rewritten with the help of a hired human resources consultant to address issues of harassment and other workplace disturbances. The station has also installed cameras, and is hiring a professional mediator — who is also a retired employment lawyer — to “make sure that everyone is heard,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now we’re just working on our staff policy and board policy to assure that those [are] up to date as well, just because these policies hadn’t been updated since like 2004,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BCM’s youth internship program has also been put on hold until the new policies are implemented and the station can ensure that it is offering “a safe environment for young people to be in here,” Flores said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trujllo, the former board member, said those measures don’t go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In terms of the HR consultant, yes, great. However, I don’t see much change happening structurally,” she said. “If you don’t have internal leadership that can ensure accountability when those policies are violated, what good is the policy?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flores said that all three board members had the opportunity to be involved in the process of addressing these issues, but declined to participate. And none of them, he said, suggested any solutions or major organizational changes that they wanted to see implemented, other than having him removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are continuing to work to make our space a safe and welcoming place for everyone,” he said in a follow-up email. “The Board and I have been trying to find a positive resolution to this issue and we feel that we have done our due diligence in finding an equitable solution to the issues which have been brought to our attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Menyhart, the former employee, said the incidents effectively upended a community that they once considered a safe and enjoyable workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m supposed to be teaching a class to our community,” said Menyhart, adding, “I had so much fun working there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was genuinely excited to teach this class,” they said. “But I couldn’t do my job. Seriously, I was shaking. I was just shaking from fear and anger.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The former Berkeley Community Media board members, all women of color, called for major structural changes at the organization, whose leadership they said had improperly responded to several sexual harassment allegations.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1697605906,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1504},"headData":{"title":"3 Board Members Resign From Berkeley Public Access TV Station, Calling It Unsafe Environment | KQED","description":"The former Berkeley Community Media board members, all women of color, called for major structural changes at the organization, whose leadership they said had improperly responded to several sexual harassment allegations.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"3 Board Members Resign From Berkeley Public Access TV Station, Calling It Unsafe Environment","datePublished":"2023-10-14T13:00:39.000Z","dateModified":"2023-10-18T05:11:46.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"nprByline":"María Fernanda Bernal","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11964513/3-board-members-resign-from-berkeley-public-access-tv-station-calling-it-unsafe-environment-for-youth-women-of-color","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Three board members of Berkeley’s public access television station resigned this week, accusing the organization of failing to responsibly address several alleged instances of sexual harassment and discrimination at the facility, which they said made it an unsafe environment for youth and other vulnerable groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former board members of the nonprofit Berkeley Community Media (BCM), who are all women of color, said the allegations date back to the spring of 2022, but that they only became aware of them earlier this year, when staff members approached the board, reporting “sexual harassment, an unsafe work environment, microaggressions, race-based discrimination, and gender-based violence.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘There needs to be an agency that comes and investigates all of this because we are very concerned about the staff that remains there.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Cristina Trujillo, former Berkeley Community Media board member","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Since March, the three resigning board members have tirelessly endeavored to enact structural changes to ensure a safe environment, particularly for youth and vulnerable staff members,” Leena Duwadi, Barbie Penn and Cristina Trujillo, the former board members, said in a joint statement on Monday. “However, their efforts have yielded fruitless months marked by an alarming increase in animosity from senior staff towards the harmed employee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the board’s remaining seven members, there are now no women of color, Trujillo told KQED, and called for “a complete overhaul of leadership, beginning with the executive director.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There needs to be an agency that comes and investigates all of this because we are very concerned about the staff that remains there,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the resignation announcement this week, David Flores, BCM’s executive director, confirmed to KQED that there were “two unfortunate instances of sexual harassment,” but that the center has since addressed the issues and updated its member policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first allegation was made in May 2022 when a youth intern said they were sexually harassed by an adult male inside the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After asking a series of personal questions, the man asked the intern to stand up and turn around so he could “ take a look at them,” according to Jules Menyhart, a former technician at the station who quit in March, citing a hostile work environment. Menyhart did not witness the alleged incident, but recounted it on behalf of the intern, who declined to comment and asked to remain anonymous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED typically does not identify potential victims of sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menyhart said the alleged perpetrator is an elderly man who paid the station to use its media facilities. Following the allegation, BCM managers gave the man a warning and said he could only enter the facility outside of regular business hours, said Menyhart, who called the response far too lenient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcmtv.org/about/\">BCM\u003c/a> — which receives some funding from the city of Berkeley — has produced and aired local TV programming, offered classes and allowed local residents to use its media production resources for a small membership fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964818\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/BCM_Final.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11964818\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/BCM_Final.jpg\" alt='A large gray, official-looking building, with a lit up \"open\" sign in one window.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1128\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/BCM_Final.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/BCM_Final-800x470.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/BCM_Final-1020x599.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/BCM_Final-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/BCM_Final-1536x902.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An ‘Open’ sign shines in the window of Berkeley Community Media, located inside the mostly vacant Maudelle Shirek Building near downtown Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Flores acknowledged that the organization’s previous harassment policy — which it recently updated — “was pretty nebulous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just had two categories of harassment, it was either a major incident or a minor incident, major being extreme or persistent. And then everything else was minor, which was addressed with first a warning, then a six-month suspension, then a nine-month suspension,” he said. “And if it went past that it would be escalated to major and major was just you’re immediately kicked out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “It’s just been stressful because, you know, sexual harassment is a very nuanced thing, I’ve come to learn, because I didn’t have a background with HR when all this began.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some six months later, in November 2022, a staff member at the station alleged they were solicited for sex work by an adult male intern, according to a subsequent police report. The man “approached her and stated, ‘I am looking for a sex worker. Let me know if you know any,’ while looking at (the employee) up and down,” the police report reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also states that the man was prohibited from entering the station after the incident but had nevertheless returned and was attempting to appeal the ban.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"sexual-harassment"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Speaking on behalf of the alleged victim, who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation, Menyhart, who uses the pronoun they, says they and their co-workers felt unsafe at the station because they said Flores did not enforce the ban against the alleged offender out of concern that he would violently retaliate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The executive director told us that he is afraid to kick this man out because, quote, he’s afraid that he might bring a gun,” Menyhart said. “We were both incredibly scared. You don’t just bring up a gun out of nowhere. Like, that’s our lives. You’re making us feel like if we report sexual harassment, we’ll die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flores contends that Menyhart and other concerned staff members had come into his office unannounced demanding to speak about the incidents, and had subsequently mischaracterized his response to their question about why BCM couldn’t simply kick someone out without due process. And he said he only mentioned the gun threat as a “extreme” example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Menyhart and other staff members dissatisfied with the organization’s response to the alleged incidents, brought the issue to the attention of the board, who subsequently voted to expel both of the alleged perpetrators from the center, Flores said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon learning of both alleged incidents, the African American Studies Department and Arts and Humanities Academy at Berkeley High School, which has a longstanding relationship with BCM and \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2018/06/22/berkeley-community-media-calls-it-a-wrap-prepares-for-its-sequel#:~:text=Berkeley%20Community%20Media%20is%20packing,20%20years%20on%20the%20campus.\">until recently housed its studio\u003c/a>, sent letters in March threatening to cut ties with the station if the issue was not properly dealt with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, after hearing the issues regarding sexual harassment and racism, and neglecting to properly handle the issue, we do not feel comfortable working with BCM unless this is effectively addressed,” one letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964376\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231012-BerkeleyMedia-006-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11964376\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231012-BerkeleyMedia-006-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with long hair and glasses stands in a park looking at the camera.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231012-BerkeleyMedia-006-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231012-BerkeleyMedia-006-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231012-BerkeleyMedia-006-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231012-BerkeleyMedia-006-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231012-BerkeleyMedia-006-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231012-BerkeleyMedia-006-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Berkeley Community Media employee Jules Menyhart in Willow Park in West Oakland on Oct. 12, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>BCM member policy, Flores said, was recently rewritten with the help of a hired human resources consultant to address issues of harassment and other workplace disturbances. The station has also installed cameras, and is hiring a professional mediator — who is also a retired employment lawyer — to “make sure that everyone is heard,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now we’re just working on our staff policy and board policy to assure that those [are] up to date as well, just because these policies hadn’t been updated since like 2004,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BCM’s youth internship program has also been put on hold until the new policies are implemented and the station can ensure that it is offering “a safe environment for young people to be in here,” Flores said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trujllo, the former board member, said those measures don’t go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In terms of the HR consultant, yes, great. However, I don’t see much change happening structurally,” she said. “If you don’t have internal leadership that can ensure accountability when those policies are violated, what good is the policy?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flores said that all three board members had the opportunity to be involved in the process of addressing these issues, but declined to participate. And none of them, he said, suggested any solutions or major organizational changes that they wanted to see implemented, other than having him removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are continuing to work to make our space a safe and welcoming place for everyone,” he said in a follow-up email. “The Board and I have been trying to find a positive resolution to this issue and we feel that we have done our due diligence in finding an equitable solution to the issues which have been brought to our attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Menyhart, the former employee, said the incidents effectively upended a community that they once considered a safe and enjoyable workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m supposed to be teaching a class to our community,” said Menyhart, adding, “I had so much fun working there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was genuinely excited to teach this class,” they said. “But I couldn’t do my job. Seriously, I was shaking. I was just shaking from fear and anger.”\u003cbr>\n\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>\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/11964513/3-board-members-resign-from-berkeley-public-access-tv-station-calling-it-unsafe-environment-for-youth-women-of-color","authors":["byline_news_11964513"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_33335","news_33337","news_2838"],"featImg":"news_11964814","label":"news"},"news_11959973":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11959973","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11959973","score":null,"sort":[1693681360000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"will-barts-program-to-battle-sexual-harassment-make-riders-feel-safer","title":"Will BART's Program to Battle Sexual Harassment Make Riders Feel Safer?","publishDate":1693681360,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Will BART’s Program to Battle Sexual Harassment Make Riders Feel Safer? | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>After Phase 1 launched two years ago, BART is now expanding its effort to battle sexual harassment and gender-based violence on the transit system — or, at least, battle the perception of BART as unsafe for women and genderqueer riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Phase 2 comes at a time when we are doing everything we can do to win riders back. … and that starts with safety,” said Alicia Trost, BART’s chief communications officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When BART began collecting data on sexual harassment in 2020, they found that 10% of people surveyed had experienced gender-based violence within the last six months. Almost three years later — and two years after the start of its “Not One More Girl” prevention campaign — that number is still at 10% today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the biggest challenge, said BART officials, may simply be the perception riders have of its system. A survey of 274 students in east Contra Costa found over 45% said they did not feel safe on BART. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2023/news20230729\">with ridership numbers still at 40% of pre-COVID trips\u003c/a>, the agency is facing a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952821/1-1-billion-state-bailout-proposed-for-transit-agencies-facing-fiscal-cliff\">fiscal cliff\u003c/a>.” A rollout of new gates, which make it harder to evade fares, is also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956833/bart-board-votes-to-oppose-bill-that-would-decriminalize-fare-evasion\">part of the agency’s effort\u003c/a> to change perceptions and woo back riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first part of the “Not One More Girl” initiative, which began in April 2021, collected data on sexual harassment and added tools to \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/about/police/bartwatch\">the BART Watch App\u003c/a> (an app to report crime on BART) that would make it easier to report noncriminal harassment. During its first year, just 29 people reported noncriminal harassment, according to BART.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what may have been most noticeable, though, was the increase in BART’s unarmed safety personnel, expanding the numbers of transit ambassadors and crisis intervention specialists. Last year they added 10 ambassadors, and 15 crisis specialists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This next phase will focus, instead, on how bystanders can help prevent sexual harassment and gender-based violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are demanding awareness from our community,” said Franchesca Rodriguez, the transit justice facilitator for the Betti Ono Foundation. Rodriguez was part of the initial group providing input and suggestions to BART on this second phase of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She joined BART officials and other community organizations on Thursday at the station in downtown Berkeley to describe the next parts of the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART’s goal is for “a future of data-driven policy and programming to better uphold riders’ safety — with girls and gender-expansive youth of color at the center,” said Chantal Hildebrand, deputy director for the Alliance of Girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what Phase 2 has planned:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Shorter trains\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>BART officials typically recommend that people sit in the front car if they’re traveling alone. That’s because the train operator is at the very front, too — making you not entirely alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trost, BART’s communications person, says that “[young people] don’t like to wait at the end of the platform where the first car lands, because it’s dark and sketchy.” The solution? Make cars shorter. That way if someone is waiting for the first train car, they don’t have to wait near the corner. This also will lead to less empty cars overall, which BART officials believe will reduce harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959977\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?attachment_id=11959977\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11959977\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11959977\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/cards-scaled-e1693612358771-1020x1330.jpg\" alt=\"two colorful cards say 'i got you' and 'you got me?'\" width=\"640\" height=\"835\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/cards-scaled-e1693612358771-1020x1330.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/cards-scaled-e1693612358771-800x1043.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/cards-scaled-e1693612358771-160x209.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/cards-scaled-e1693612358771-1178x1536.jpg 1178w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/cards-scaled-e1693612358771.jpg 1561w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These cards are meant to be used either asking for help or offering it. \u003ccite>(Billy Cruz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To make up for these shorter trains and to decrease the amount of time people have to wait at stations, BART officials said the agency will also soon increase frequency at nights and on weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bystander intervention cards\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>BART is also offering two colorful paper cards so riders, in theory, can discreetly ask or offer help. The cards are the same size as a Clipper card and can be found at station agent booths or with transit ambassadors and crisis intervention specialists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One card says, “You got me?” and asks for help. It also provides details on what a bystander can do to get assistance for the person who needs help. The other card says “I got you.” The idea, here, is that if you see someone being harassed, you can discreetly give them one of these cards, letting them know someone’s looking out for them. It signals to the person in distress that you can and will help them if they need, whether it be through the BART Watch App or by calling BART police.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Safety posters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Local artist Safi Kolozsvari Regalado has also designed three posters that are currently on 300 BART trains and at several BART stations. The posters offer safety tips in a youthful comic-book style. One explains how the front train car is the safest. Another shows what the BART Watch App can be used for and encourages people to download it. All highlight scenes of bystander intervention. The posters also explain the larger initiative, and include a QR code that directs you to \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/guide/safety/gbv\">a BART webpage on gender-based violence\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFBART/status/1697380108473143338\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the posters are already up, the bystander intervention cards, shorter trains and change in train frequency will start on Sept. 11.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"With BART ridership still low, the agency's 'Not One More Girl' program hopes to change perceptions of safety and get riders back on trains.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1693616612,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":886},"headData":{"title":"Will BART's Program to Battle Sexual Harassment Make Riders Feel Safer? | KQED","description":"With BART ridership still low, the agency's 'Not One More Girl' program hopes to change perceptions of safety and get riders back on trains.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Will BART's Program to Battle Sexual Harassment Make Riders Feel Safer?","datePublished":"2023-09-02T19:02:40.000Z","dateModified":"2023-09-02T01:03:32.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11959973/will-barts-program-to-battle-sexual-harassment-make-riders-feel-safer","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After Phase 1 launched two years ago, BART is now expanding its effort to battle sexual harassment and gender-based violence on the transit system — or, at least, battle the perception of BART as unsafe for women and genderqueer riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Phase 2 comes at a time when we are doing everything we can do to win riders back. … and that starts with safety,” said Alicia Trost, BART’s chief communications officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When BART began collecting data on sexual harassment in 2020, they found that 10% of people surveyed had experienced gender-based violence within the last six months. Almost three years later — and two years after the start of its “Not One More Girl” prevention campaign — that number is still at 10% today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the biggest challenge, said BART officials, may simply be the perception riders have of its system. A survey of 274 students in east Contra Costa found over 45% said they did not feel safe on BART. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2023/news20230729\">with ridership numbers still at 40% of pre-COVID trips\u003c/a>, the agency is facing a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952821/1-1-billion-state-bailout-proposed-for-transit-agencies-facing-fiscal-cliff\">fiscal cliff\u003c/a>.” A rollout of new gates, which make it harder to evade fares, is also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956833/bart-board-votes-to-oppose-bill-that-would-decriminalize-fare-evasion\">part of the agency’s effort\u003c/a> to change perceptions and woo back riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first part of the “Not One More Girl” initiative, which began in April 2021, collected data on sexual harassment and added tools to \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/about/police/bartwatch\">the BART Watch App\u003c/a> (an app to report crime on BART) that would make it easier to report noncriminal harassment. During its first year, just 29 people reported noncriminal harassment, according to BART.\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>But what may have been most noticeable, though, was the increase in BART’s unarmed safety personnel, expanding the numbers of transit ambassadors and crisis intervention specialists. Last year they added 10 ambassadors, and 15 crisis specialists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This next phase will focus, instead, on how bystanders can help prevent sexual harassment and gender-based violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are demanding awareness from our community,” said Franchesca Rodriguez, the transit justice facilitator for the Betti Ono Foundation. Rodriguez was part of the initial group providing input and suggestions to BART on this second phase of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She joined BART officials and other community organizations on Thursday at the station in downtown Berkeley to describe the next parts of the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART’s goal is for “a future of data-driven policy and programming to better uphold riders’ safety — with girls and gender-expansive youth of color at the center,” said Chantal Hildebrand, deputy director for the Alliance of Girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what Phase 2 has planned:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Shorter trains\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>BART officials typically recommend that people sit in the front car if they’re traveling alone. That’s because the train operator is at the very front, too — making you not entirely alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trost, BART’s communications person, says that “[young people] don’t like to wait at the end of the platform where the first car lands, because it’s dark and sketchy.” The solution? Make cars shorter. That way if someone is waiting for the first train car, they don’t have to wait near the corner. This also will lead to less empty cars overall, which BART officials believe will reduce harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959977\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?attachment_id=11959977\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11959977\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11959977\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/cards-scaled-e1693612358771-1020x1330.jpg\" alt=\"two colorful cards say 'i got you' and 'you got me?'\" width=\"640\" height=\"835\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/cards-scaled-e1693612358771-1020x1330.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/cards-scaled-e1693612358771-800x1043.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/cards-scaled-e1693612358771-160x209.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/cards-scaled-e1693612358771-1178x1536.jpg 1178w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/cards-scaled-e1693612358771.jpg 1561w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These cards are meant to be used either asking for help or offering it. \u003ccite>(Billy Cruz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To make up for these shorter trains and to decrease the amount of time people have to wait at stations, BART officials said the agency will also soon increase frequency at nights and on weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bystander intervention cards\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>BART is also offering two colorful paper cards so riders, in theory, can discreetly ask or offer help. The cards are the same size as a Clipper card and can be found at station agent booths or with transit ambassadors and crisis intervention specialists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One card says, “You got me?” and asks for help. It also provides details on what a bystander can do to get assistance for the person who needs help. The other card says “I got you.” The idea, here, is that if you see someone being harassed, you can discreetly give them one of these cards, letting them know someone’s looking out for them. It signals to the person in distress that you can and will help them if they need, whether it be through the BART Watch App or by calling BART police.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Safety posters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Local artist Safi Kolozsvari Regalado has also designed three posters that are currently on 300 BART trains and at several BART stations. The posters offer safety tips in a youthful comic-book style. One explains how the front train car is the safest. Another shows what the BART Watch App can be used for and encourages people to download it. All highlight scenes of bystander intervention. The posters also explain the larger initiative, and include a QR code that directs you to \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/guide/safety/gbv\">a BART webpage on gender-based violence\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1697380108473143338"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the posters are already up, the bystander intervention cards, shorter trains and change in train frequency will start on Sept. 11.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11959973/will-barts-program-to-battle-sexual-harassment-make-riders-feel-safer","authors":["11877"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_269","news_2838"],"featImg":"news_11959976","label":"news"},"news_11938282":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11938282","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11938282","score":null,"sort":[1674482510000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"at-an-oakland-art-school-a-teachers-arrest-for-alleged-sexual-abuse-reopens-a-painful-history","title":"At an Oakland Art School, a Teacher's Arrest for Alleged Sexual Abuse Reopens a Painful History","publishDate":1674482510,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen Maureen learned her former Oakland School for the Arts teacher was being investigated by police over allegations he sexually abused a student nearly two decades ago, she was terrified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maureen, 34, said the arrest of Jeremy Taylor brought back painful memories of what she believes were inappropriate relationships staff at the school developed with students — including the relationship she had with a teacher that led to their marriage seven years after she graduated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a document provided by Maureen and reviewed by KQED, Maureen married Wesley Cayabyab, who worked at OSA while she was in high school, in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED is not using Maureen’s real name because she fears retaliation and harassment by the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maureen, a member of OSA’s first graduating class, remembered how she and other students confided in Taylor while they were students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor was fired last February after an investigation by a firm hired by the school found a “preponderance of evidence” that he had a sexual relationship with a student. Prosecutors allege he sexually abused the student in 2005. Through his attorney, Taylor, who was arrested in May, has denied the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, the alleged victim filed a lawsuit against OSA and the Oakland Unified School District, claiming school officials “did nothing in response to obviously suspicious and dangerous behavior, allowing the abuse to continue and escalate in severity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11921799,news_11911375,news_11935859\"]OSA was founded in 2002 by then-Mayor Jerry Brown as part of his mission to open a charter school that provides a rigorous arts education. When the school opened on Alice Street near Oakland’s Civic Center neighborhood, turnover among staff was high, and former students say they were under tremendous pressure to protect the school’s image. The school, which serves more than 800 students in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13870187/room-302-home-of-oaklands-own-tiny-desk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disciplines ranging from voice to dance\u003c/a>, is now in the Fox Theater building, on Telegraph Avenue in Uptown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many alums have achieved success, including Zendaya and Angus Cloud, stars of HBO’s \u003ci>Euphoria\u003c/i>, and the chart-topping pop and R&B singer Kehlani. But the school’s two-decade history has been marred by allegations of harassment and misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED obtained a copy of a report by Oppenheimer Investigations Group, which probed sexual abuse allegations against Taylor and included statements from former students who recounted a troubling environment at OSA, dating back to the school’s founding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reporting this story, KQED reviewed dozens of pages of documents, journal entries, yearbook pages, emails and screenshots related to the period — 2003 to 2006 — described in the investigation. In addition, KQED has reviewed records from subsequent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maureen and former students who spoke with KQED described a culture that allowed for inappropriate relationships between staff and students. They want to prevent current students from experiencing similar treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If no one talks about the fact that that happened, then the school is able to really just continue to act as if issues surrounding sexual harassment and grooming at the school were isolated incidents,” Maureen, who divorced Cayabyab in 2018, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60305_002_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60305_002_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a hand is seen against a yearbook page focusing on a bald white teacher with glasses and a beard\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60305_002_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60305_002_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60305_002_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60305_002_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60305_002_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Jeremy Taylor in a yearbook for Oakland School for the Arts. Taylor was fired in February 2022 following allegations he sexually abused a student. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oppenheimer’s investigation referenced a marriage between a teacher and former student after the student graduated as an example of a culture at the school where boundaries were not enforced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maureen shared emails she said Cayabyab sent her over a 17-month period while she was a student. Cayabyab told Maureen she was attractive, called her \"sweetheart\" and described getting lunch with her and making her late for class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I reciprocate on the feeling of love: I love YOU, just not this country,” he allegedly wrote on Nov. 4, 2004, one day after George W. Bush claimed a reelection victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Borg, an OSA spokesperson, said records show Cayabyab, 40, was a “technical theater teacher” from 2003–2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When reached for comment by text, Cayabyab, now a medical simulation specialist at Stanford University, according to his \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/wesley-cayabyab-b276501/\">LinkedIn profile\u003c/a>, responded, “Your sources have exaggerated the facts to make themselves look impeccable and want nothing more than to use me as a scapegoat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"'Maureen,' Oakland School for the Arts alum\"]'If no one talks about the fact that [inappropriate relationships] happened, then the school is able to really just continue to act as if issues surrounding sexual harassment and grooming at the school were isolated incidents.'[/pullquote]Taylor, the subject of the most recent investigation, taught economics, U.S. government and Advanced Placement psychology. In an email sent to OSA families in August, Mike Oz, the school’s executive director, wrote that no current employee “had any knowledge of allegations or instances of sexual misconduct, grooming or boundary crossing by Mr. Taylor prior to January 3rd, 2022.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor, 47, pleaded not guilty in December to committing a lewd act upon a child. His lawyer, Elizabeth Grossman, said the abuse allegations are a “total fabrication.” Recent OSA graduates said Taylor was popular on campus, and students had crushes on him, sharing memes of him online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The criminal case is a tragedy,” Grossman, a criminal defense attorney who specializes in disciplinary matters in schools and universities, according to her website, said by phone. “It’s an example of an excellent, dedicated teacher having his career ruined.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement in response to allegations of inappropriate behavior by former staff, including multiple allegations that have not been previously reported, Borg said current school leaders have “very limited insight” into incidents that occurred during the school’s infancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[O]ur leadership team has aggressively worked to review archived records, discarded computer drives, spoken to witnesses and reviewed other sources to discern the truth,” he said. “Where we have conducted investigations that yielded credible information, we have taken action and cooperated with law enforcement. Every accusation or complaint, formal or not, receives immediate attention and is fully investigated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'What was normal and what was not'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Oppenheimer report describes a pattern of grooming behavior by Taylor, and a campus where leadership created “a culture of loose boundaries” that “likely enabled Taylor’s relationships with his students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A student whose account was included in the report told KQED that the ways other faculty at the school behaved with students made her relationship with Taylor seem normal. She attended OSA from 2003 to 2005, and asked not to be named over concerns that former OSA staff could threaten her legally for speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938329\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60312_013_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938329\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60312_013_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"two hands are seen holding a yearbook with a title 'Our new home'\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60312_013_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60312_013_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60312_013_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60312_013_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60312_013_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Maureen' holds a yearbook from her time at Oakland School for the Arts. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was very apparent to me and my friends that there were teachers at our school that could possibly like students,” she said. “But looking back at it as an adult, you don’t hug a student and massage their back, and all these red flags, and [make] it look like a safe space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She remembered talking to Taylor about her personal life for hours on the phone. When rumors spread on campus that she had a sexual relationship with Taylor, she said school staff joked about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was more humiliating to have my teachers laugh and poke fun instead of calling my parents first and seeing if there was something going on,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten former students told KQED that Jason Miller, a founding faculty member, also behaved inappropriately or crossed personal boundaries with students. None of the former students alleged sexual abuse by Miller, who worked at OSA until 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An alum who graduated in 2008 told KQED she frequently went out to eat with Miller alone while she was a student, and they called each other frequently. She asked not to be named because she fears retaliation from Miller, who, \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonmiller11/\">according to his LinkedIn bio\u003c/a>, has been employed as a deputy legislative counsel in California’s Office of Legislative Counsel since December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938443\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OSAStudent_11182022.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938443\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OSAStudent_11182022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a young person with long dark hair stands with her back facing the camera in an orange sweater, in front of a school\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OSAStudent_11182022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OSAStudent_11182022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OSAStudent_11182022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OSAStudent_11182022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OSAStudent_11182022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An alum who graduated from OSA in 2008 said she often went out to eat alone with former teacher Jason Miller, a founding faculty member, and they called each other frequently while she was a student. She’s one of several alums who told KQED that Miller behaved inappropriately or crossed personal boundaries with students. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He would hug me a lot, kiss me on my forehead, call me ‘sweetie,’ tell me he loved me,” she said. “There was a lot of ‘I love you,’ and that’s also part of OSA culture. At the time, it was almost normal for teachers and students to say ‘I love you’ to one another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said after Miller took another job, she would leave school during lunch to intern at the theater company his wife founded in Antioch. He often drove her home and held her hand during the rides, she said. She shared emails with KQED from 2007 and 2008 where Miller wrote, “I love you” and “I miss you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=education_535503]Maureen said Miller once pulled her into his lap and would also kiss her forehead. She said he would call her beautiful and compliment her body. Alums said Miller was once a prominent figure at OSA who influenced students’ artistic futures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller, 47, denied any “improprieties with any student or former student at any time” in a statement. In an interview, Miller said he did not recall holding a student’s hand during rides home, and when he did call students it was for professional or academic reasons. He said body image is always an issue for performing artists, and it would not have surprised him if he told a student she was a beautiful girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hugging, the nicknames — I would describe it as a top-of-a-head kiss, not a forehead kiss, in moments of triumph, moments of great excitement — I’m sure happened,” he said. “This was a school of huggers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60306_004_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938326\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60306_004_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a yearbook photo shows a white male teacher smiling and pointing\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60306_004_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60306_004_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60306_004_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60306_004_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60306_004_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Jason Miller in an Oakland School for the Arts yearbook. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In recent years, according to Borg, Miller was on OSA’s “legal counsel team” that provided guidance on the school’s policies for Title IX, the law that protects students from sexual harassment and discrimination based on sex. OSA students walked out of class to protest the administration’s response to alleged sexual harassment by other students in September 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the protest, Miller spoke at an OSA board of directors meeting. He said he was working closely with staff to make sure the rights of all students were protected, and outlined the process for reporting incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borg said Miller stopped working on “OSA matters” in September 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A revolving door of teachers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Former teachers who spoke with KQED about OSA’s early years recalled a dysfunctional environment. Teachers were young and inexperienced, and many did not stay long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was one of the most unstable schools I ever [encountered] in my life,” recalled Bronwyn LaMay, who said she worked at OSA for less than a month in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938311\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60479_003_KQED_OSABronwenLamay_11222022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938311\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60479_003_KQED_OSABronwenLamay_11222022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a woman with long brown hair wearing a green overcoat poses in a park\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60479_003_KQED_OSABronwenLamay_11222022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60479_003_KQED_OSABronwenLamay_11222022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60479_003_KQED_OSABronwenLamay_11222022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60479_003_KQED_OSABronwenLamay_11222022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60479_003_KQED_OSABronwenLamay_11222022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bronwyn LaMay poses for a portrait at Weekes Community Center Park in Hayward on Nov. 22, 2022. While working at OSA, LaMay said she felt 'completely bullied, completely harassed by the entire administrative team.' \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>LaMay, now director of the San José Area Writing Project and a lecturer at San José State University, said she reported another teacher whom she believes sexually harassed her to school administrators soon after she started the job. But she said she resigned when it was clear the school was not going to take any steps to protect her or take the complaint seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just felt completely bullied, completely harassed by the entire administrative team,” said LaMay, 47. “It’s incredibly important how you talk to people, how you treat people, what kind of space you hold, the kind of norms you set, what kind of policies you do or don’t allow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim’m West worked at OSA from 2002 to 2004, teaching creative writing and literary arts. He developed close relationships with students and set his own boundaries. As an openly gay teacher aware of how homophobia has fueled false accusations of predatory behavior, he said he kept the door open when meeting with students. He believes policies like that should not have been left for individual teachers to set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a kind of warm, fuzzy, affectionate culture at OSA that I think would have been inappropriate in a lot of school contexts, and wasn’t appropriate then,” said West, 50. “The culture of silence around that — it could enable, very easily, people to abuse those boundaries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that after a slam poetry event, Loni Berry, the school’s first director, called him to his office and told West that hip-hop was not a real art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were in Oakland, and kids were having to manage so much of what was going on without a lot of support,” said West, now executive director of the LGBTQ Institute in Atlanta. “Teachers were filling the gaps of that, and it was becoming a toxic culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to reach Berry, who started a production company in Bangkok, were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one administrator at OSA expressed concerns that Taylor was privately counseling students, according to the Oppenheimer report. And in 2005, the mother of the student allegedly sexually abused by Taylor complained to a school administrator about lengthy phone calls between Taylor and the student, according to the lawsuit filed by the former student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Tim’m West, former OSA teacher\"]'There was a kind of warm, fuzzy, affectionate culture at OSA that I think would have been inappropriate in a lot of school contexts, and wasn't appropriate then. The culture of silence around that — it could enable, very easily, people to abuse those boundaries.'[/pullquote]The alleged victim described to investigators how she had large blocks of time when she could easily leave class and spend time with Taylor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor left OSA in 2006. He briefly taught in North Carolina before returning to OSA in 2007, according to the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billie-Jo Grant, an expert in school employee sexual misconduct prevention, said it’s important for schools to examine the policies they had in place when older abuse allegations resurface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"'Were we providing training? What did we do when we hired someone? What did we do when a concern or a complaint came up? What was the messaging around harassment, misconduct?'\" she said. \"Those would be the areas I would look for in these older cases, peeling back the layers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the summer of 2021, OSA students created the Student Safety Committee to push the school to address sexual harassment and assault on and off campus. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11921799/students-shared-allegations-of-sexual-misconduct-at-oakland-school-for-the-arts-then-chaos-broke-out\">The group organized a walkout\u003c/a> in September of that year, demanding regular assemblies on sexual harassment and assault as well as improvements to the sexual education curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school released a statement refuting most claims of sexual misconduct. Student organizers said the response from administrators left them feeling unsupported by the school and even more wary of reporting abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school and OSA administrators are also facing two lawsuits involving Black students who say they were falsely accused of sexual misconduct and that the school did not take steps to protect them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borg claims the school has improved the quality of training and procedures related to sexual harassment and assault, and updated its policy around responding to complaints since the walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nia Richardson, who graduated in 2020, hopes Taylor’s arrest is a wake-up call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OSA has a history of choosing to ignore problems, whether they be racial [or] sexual assault,” she said. “[We’ve] dealt with so many issues where we weren’t able to find comfort in staff or any authority. It’s been a pattern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Oakland School for the Arts is known for its creative curriculum and famous alums. But former students allege that, since the school's founding in 2002, administrators have looked the other way while teachers groomed, harassed and otherwise engaged in inappropriate relationships with students.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1674564165,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":60,"wordCount":2771},"headData":{"title":"At an Oakland Art School, a Teacher's Arrest for Alleged Sexual Abuse Reopens a Painful History | KQED","description":"Oakland School for the Arts is known for its creative curriculum and famous alums. But former students allege that, since the school's founding in 2002, administrators have looked the other way while teachers groomed, harassed and otherwise engaged in inappropriate relationships with students.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"At an Oakland Art School, a Teacher's Arrest for Alleged Sexual Abuse Reopens a Painful History","datePublished":"2023-01-23T14:01:50.000Z","dateModified":"2023-01-24T12:42:45.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11938282/at-an-oakland-art-school-a-teachers-arrest-for-alleged-sexual-abuse-reopens-a-painful-history","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">W\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>hen Maureen learned her former Oakland School for the Arts teacher was being investigated by police over allegations he sexually abused a student nearly two decades ago, she was terrified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maureen, 34, said the arrest of Jeremy Taylor brought back painful memories of what she believes were inappropriate relationships staff at the school developed with students — including the relationship she had with a teacher that led to their marriage seven years after she graduated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a document provided by Maureen and reviewed by KQED, Maureen married Wesley Cayabyab, who worked at OSA while she was in high school, in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED is not using Maureen’s real name because she fears retaliation and harassment by the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maureen, a member of OSA’s first graduating class, remembered how she and other students confided in Taylor while they were students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor was fired last February after an investigation by a firm hired by the school found a “preponderance of evidence” that he had a sexual relationship with a student. Prosecutors allege he sexually abused the student in 2005. Through his attorney, Taylor, who was arrested in May, has denied the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, the alleged victim filed a lawsuit against OSA and the Oakland Unified School District, claiming school officials “did nothing in response to obviously suspicious and dangerous behavior, allowing the abuse to continue and escalate in severity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11921799,news_11911375,news_11935859"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>OSA was founded in 2002 by then-Mayor Jerry Brown as part of his mission to open a charter school that provides a rigorous arts education. When the school opened on Alice Street near Oakland’s Civic Center neighborhood, turnover among staff was high, and former students say they were under tremendous pressure to protect the school’s image. The school, which serves more than 800 students in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13870187/room-302-home-of-oaklands-own-tiny-desk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disciplines ranging from voice to dance\u003c/a>, is now in the Fox Theater building, on Telegraph Avenue in Uptown Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many alums have achieved success, including Zendaya and Angus Cloud, stars of HBO’s \u003ci>Euphoria\u003c/i>, and the chart-topping pop and R&B singer Kehlani. But the school’s two-decade history has been marred by allegations of harassment and misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED obtained a copy of a report by Oppenheimer Investigations Group, which probed sexual abuse allegations against Taylor and included statements from former students who recounted a troubling environment at OSA, dating back to the school’s founding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reporting this story, KQED reviewed dozens of pages of documents, journal entries, yearbook pages, emails and screenshots related to the period — 2003 to 2006 — described in the investigation. In addition, KQED has reviewed records from subsequent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maureen and former students who spoke with KQED described a culture that allowed for inappropriate relationships between staff and students. They want to prevent current students from experiencing similar treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If no one talks about the fact that that happened, then the school is able to really just continue to act as if issues surrounding sexual harassment and grooming at the school were isolated incidents,” Maureen, who divorced Cayabyab in 2018, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60305_002_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60305_002_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a hand is seen against a yearbook page focusing on a bald white teacher with glasses and a beard\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60305_002_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60305_002_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60305_002_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60305_002_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60305_002_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Jeremy Taylor in a yearbook for Oakland School for the Arts. Taylor was fired in February 2022 following allegations he sexually abused a student. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oppenheimer’s investigation referenced a marriage between a teacher and former student after the student graduated as an example of a culture at the school where boundaries were not enforced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maureen shared emails she said Cayabyab sent her over a 17-month period while she was a student. Cayabyab told Maureen she was attractive, called her \"sweetheart\" and described getting lunch with her and making her late for class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I reciprocate on the feeling of love: I love YOU, just not this country,” he allegedly wrote on Nov. 4, 2004, one day after George W. Bush claimed a reelection victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Borg, an OSA spokesperson, said records show Cayabyab, 40, was a “technical theater teacher” from 2003–2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When reached for comment by text, Cayabyab, now a medical simulation specialist at Stanford University, according to his \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/wesley-cayabyab-b276501/\">LinkedIn profile\u003c/a>, responded, “Your sources have exaggerated the facts to make themselves look impeccable and want nothing more than to use me as a scapegoat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'If no one talks about the fact that [inappropriate relationships] happened, then the school is able to really just continue to act as if issues surrounding sexual harassment and grooming at the school were isolated incidents.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"'Maureen,' Oakland School for the Arts alum","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Taylor, the subject of the most recent investigation, taught economics, U.S. government and Advanced Placement psychology. In an email sent to OSA families in August, Mike Oz, the school’s executive director, wrote that no current employee “had any knowledge of allegations or instances of sexual misconduct, grooming or boundary crossing by Mr. Taylor prior to January 3rd, 2022.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor, 47, pleaded not guilty in December to committing a lewd act upon a child. His lawyer, Elizabeth Grossman, said the abuse allegations are a “total fabrication.” Recent OSA graduates said Taylor was popular on campus, and students had crushes on him, sharing memes of him online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The criminal case is a tragedy,” Grossman, a criminal defense attorney who specializes in disciplinary matters in schools and universities, according to her website, said by phone. “It’s an example of an excellent, dedicated teacher having his career ruined.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement in response to allegations of inappropriate behavior by former staff, including multiple allegations that have not been previously reported, Borg said current school leaders have “very limited insight” into incidents that occurred during the school’s infancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[O]ur leadership team has aggressively worked to review archived records, discarded computer drives, spoken to witnesses and reviewed other sources to discern the truth,” he said. “Where we have conducted investigations that yielded credible information, we have taken action and cooperated with law enforcement. Every accusation or complaint, formal or not, receives immediate attention and is fully investigated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'What was normal and what was not'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Oppenheimer report describes a pattern of grooming behavior by Taylor, and a campus where leadership created “a culture of loose boundaries” that “likely enabled Taylor’s relationships with his students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A student whose account was included in the report told KQED that the ways other faculty at the school behaved with students made her relationship with Taylor seem normal. She attended OSA from 2003 to 2005, and asked not to be named over concerns that former OSA staff could threaten her legally for speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938329\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60312_013_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938329\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60312_013_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"two hands are seen holding a yearbook with a title 'Our new home'\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60312_013_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60312_013_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60312_013_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60312_013_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60312_013_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Maureen' holds a yearbook from her time at Oakland School for the Arts. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was very apparent to me and my friends that there were teachers at our school that could possibly like students,” she said. “But looking back at it as an adult, you don’t hug a student and massage their back, and all these red flags, and [make] it look like a safe space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She remembered talking to Taylor about her personal life for hours on the phone. When rumors spread on campus that she had a sexual relationship with Taylor, she said school staff joked about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was more humiliating to have my teachers laugh and poke fun instead of calling my parents first and seeing if there was something going on,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten former students told KQED that Jason Miller, a founding faculty member, also behaved inappropriately or crossed personal boundaries with students. None of the former students alleged sexual abuse by Miller, who worked at OSA until 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An alum who graduated in 2008 told KQED she frequently went out to eat with Miller alone while she was a student, and they called each other frequently. She asked not to be named because she fears retaliation from Miller, who, \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonmiller11/\">according to his LinkedIn bio\u003c/a>, has been employed as a deputy legislative counsel in California’s Office of Legislative Counsel since December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938443\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OSAStudent_11182022.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938443\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OSAStudent_11182022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a young person with long dark hair stands with her back facing the camera in an orange sweater, in front of a school\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OSAStudent_11182022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OSAStudent_11182022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OSAStudent_11182022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OSAStudent_11182022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/004_KQED_OSAStudent_11182022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An alum who graduated from OSA in 2008 said she often went out to eat alone with former teacher Jason Miller, a founding faculty member, and they called each other frequently while she was a student. She’s one of several alums who told KQED that Miller behaved inappropriately or crossed personal boundaries with students. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He would hug me a lot, kiss me on my forehead, call me ‘sweetie,’ tell me he loved me,” she said. “There was a lot of ‘I love you,’ and that’s also part of OSA culture. At the time, it was almost normal for teachers and students to say ‘I love you’ to one another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said after Miller took another job, she would leave school during lunch to intern at the theater company his wife founded in Antioch. He often drove her home and held her hand during the rides, she said. She shared emails with KQED from 2007 and 2008 where Miller wrote, “I love you” and “I miss you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"education_535503","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Maureen said Miller once pulled her into his lap and would also kiss her forehead. She said he would call her beautiful and compliment her body. Alums said Miller was once a prominent figure at OSA who influenced students’ artistic futures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller, 47, denied any “improprieties with any student or former student at any time” in a statement. In an interview, Miller said he did not recall holding a student’s hand during rides home, and when he did call students it was for professional or academic reasons. He said body image is always an issue for performing artists, and it would not have surprised him if he told a student she was a beautiful girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hugging, the nicknames — I would describe it as a top-of-a-head kiss, not a forehead kiss, in moments of triumph, moments of great excitement — I’m sure happened,” he said. “This was a school of huggers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60306_004_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938326\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60306_004_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a yearbook photo shows a white male teacher smiling and pointing\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60306_004_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60306_004_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60306_004_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60306_004_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60306_004_KQED_OSAMaureen_11152022-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Jason Miller in an Oakland School for the Arts yearbook. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In recent years, according to Borg, Miller was on OSA’s “legal counsel team” that provided guidance on the school’s policies for Title IX, the law that protects students from sexual harassment and discrimination based on sex. OSA students walked out of class to protest the administration’s response to alleged sexual harassment by other students in September 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the protest, Miller spoke at an OSA board of directors meeting. He said he was working closely with staff to make sure the rights of all students were protected, and outlined the process for reporting incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borg said Miller stopped working on “OSA matters” in September 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A revolving door of teachers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Former teachers who spoke with KQED about OSA’s early years recalled a dysfunctional environment. Teachers were young and inexperienced, and many did not stay long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was one of the most unstable schools I ever [encountered] in my life,” recalled Bronwyn LaMay, who said she worked at OSA for less than a month in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938311\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60479_003_KQED_OSABronwenLamay_11222022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938311\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60479_003_KQED_OSABronwenLamay_11222022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a woman with long brown hair wearing a green overcoat poses in a park\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60479_003_KQED_OSABronwenLamay_11222022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60479_003_KQED_OSABronwenLamay_11222022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60479_003_KQED_OSABronwenLamay_11222022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60479_003_KQED_OSABronwenLamay_11222022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS60479_003_KQED_OSABronwenLamay_11222022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bronwyn LaMay poses for a portrait at Weekes Community Center Park in Hayward on Nov. 22, 2022. While working at OSA, LaMay said she felt 'completely bullied, completely harassed by the entire administrative team.' \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>LaMay, now director of the San José Area Writing Project and a lecturer at San José State University, said she reported another teacher whom she believes sexually harassed her to school administrators soon after she started the job. But she said she resigned when it was clear the school was not going to take any steps to protect her or take the complaint seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just felt completely bullied, completely harassed by the entire administrative team,” said LaMay, 47. “It’s incredibly important how you talk to people, how you treat people, what kind of space you hold, the kind of norms you set, what kind of policies you do or don’t allow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim’m West worked at OSA from 2002 to 2004, teaching creative writing and literary arts. He developed close relationships with students and set his own boundaries. As an openly gay teacher aware of how homophobia has fueled false accusations of predatory behavior, he said he kept the door open when meeting with students. He believes policies like that should not have been left for individual teachers to set.\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 was a kind of warm, fuzzy, affectionate culture at OSA that I think would have been inappropriate in a lot of school contexts, and wasn’t appropriate then,” said West, 50. “The culture of silence around that — it could enable, very easily, people to abuse those boundaries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that after a slam poetry event, Loni Berry, the school’s first director, called him to his office and told West that hip-hop was not a real art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were in Oakland, and kids were having to manage so much of what was going on without a lot of support,” said West, now executive director of the LGBTQ Institute in Atlanta. “Teachers were filling the gaps of that, and it was becoming a toxic culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to reach Berry, who started a production company in Bangkok, were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one administrator at OSA expressed concerns that Taylor was privately counseling students, according to the Oppenheimer report. And in 2005, the mother of the student allegedly sexually abused by Taylor complained to a school administrator about lengthy phone calls between Taylor and the student, according to the lawsuit filed by the former student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'There was a kind of warm, fuzzy, affectionate culture at OSA that I think would have been inappropriate in a lot of school contexts, and wasn't appropriate then. The culture of silence around that — it could enable, very easily, people to abuse those boundaries.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Tim’m West, former OSA teacher","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The alleged victim described to investigators how she had large blocks of time when she could easily leave class and spend time with Taylor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor left OSA in 2006. He briefly taught in North Carolina before returning to OSA in 2007, according to the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billie-Jo Grant, an expert in school employee sexual misconduct prevention, said it’s important for schools to examine the policies they had in place when older abuse allegations resurface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"'Were we providing training? What did we do when we hired someone? What did we do when a concern or a complaint came up? What was the messaging around harassment, misconduct?'\" she said. \"Those would be the areas I would look for in these older cases, peeling back the layers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the summer of 2021, OSA students created the Student Safety Committee to push the school to address sexual harassment and assault on and off campus. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11921799/students-shared-allegations-of-sexual-misconduct-at-oakland-school-for-the-arts-then-chaos-broke-out\">The group organized a walkout\u003c/a> in September of that year, demanding regular assemblies on sexual harassment and assault as well as improvements to the sexual education curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school released a statement refuting most claims of sexual misconduct. Student organizers said the response from administrators left them feeling unsupported by the school and even more wary of reporting abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school and OSA administrators are also facing two lawsuits involving Black students who say they were falsely accused of sexual misconduct and that the school did not take steps to protect them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borg claims the school has improved the quality of training and procedures related to sexual harassment and assault, and updated its policy around responding to complaints since the walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nia Richardson, who graduated in 2020, hopes Taylor’s arrest is a wake-up call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OSA has a history of choosing to ignore problems, whether they be racial [or] sexual assault,” she said. “[We’ve] dealt with so many issues where we weren’t able to find comfort in staff or any authority. It’s been a pattern.”\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/11938282/at-an-oakland-art-school-a-teachers-arrest-for-alleged-sexual-abuse-reopens-a-painful-history","authors":["11635"],"categories":["news_29992","news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_32307","news_20013","news_32308","news_30077","news_31971","news_30","news_2525","news_1527","news_2838","news_32306"],"featImg":"news_11938315","label":"news"},"news_11935859":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11935859","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11935859","score":null,"sort":[1671638447000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-shot-at-justice-lawsuits-mount-over-sexual-abuse-in-california-schools-as-end-of-year-deadline-approaches","title":"A Shot at Justice: Lawsuits Mount Over Sexual Abuse in California Schools as End-of-Year Deadline Approaches","publishDate":1671638447,"format":"standard","headTitle":"A Shot at Justice: Lawsuits Mount Over Sexual Abuse in California Schools as End-of-Year Deadline Approaches | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>When Daniela attended Bell High School in Southeast Los Angeles County in the mid ‘90s, she was a student in Jeffrey Scott Jones’ Advanced Placement English class. As a teenager, she trusted him, and did not yet know the control he would have over her life for years into adulthood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniela, now 43, is one of three former students who married Jones, and one of five victims who say he sexually abused them when they were minors. \u003ca href=\"https://www.andersonadvocates.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/DOE-7064-DOE-7035-DOE-7063-v.-Los-Angeles-Unified-School-District-Jeffrey-Scott-Jones-et-al.-11.8.22.pdf\">She is now suing him (PDF)\u003c/a> and the Los Angeles Unified School District over claims that school leaders never investigated or notified police after multiple reports of misconduct. Daniela, who asked that we not use her legal name, spoke to KQED on the condition of anonymity because of fears about her safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were seen as poor kids, like we didn’t matter,” she said of her classmates, many of whom she said grew up in poverty. “But we do matter, and somebody should care.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11921799,news_11911375,news_11928350\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniela and countless others who say they were sexually abused as children are now able to file their claims in court because of a California state law that went into effect in 2020. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB218\">Assembly Bill 218\u003c/a>, or the California Child Victims Act, temporarily gives victims the chance to bring claims that would otherwise be barred because of the statute of limitations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure provides a three-year window in which victims of childhood sexual abuse can file complaints against perpetrators or their employers, regardless of how long ago the abuse occurred. That three-year window closes on Dec. 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys who handle abuse claims are urging victims in older cases to come forward before that date. If they wait, it could become harder — or, in some instances, impossible — to hold individuals or their employers accountable through the civil court system.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A pattern of abuse\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates for survivors say the extended statute of limitations offers an opportunity to force schools to reckon with historic wrongs through financial pressure. They also say it reflects \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalcac.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Disclosure-of-child-sexual-abuse-Delays-non-disclosures-and-partial-disclosures.-What-the-research-tells-us-and-implications-for-practice.pdf\">the reality that many victims do not report childhood abuse (PDF)\u003c/a> until years or decades later, if at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say victims may fear retaliation, or may not initially recognize what they experienced as abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniela says that when she was in high school, everyone adored Jones — including her. She and other students would go to his classroom just to talk. She says she told him everything, and even confided in him that she had been sexually abused by a family member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the lawsuit, Jones targeted young girls who were vulnerable for abuse. He instructed students to take personality tests and send him journal entries, and read students’ palms as a way to see their reaction to physical touch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniela says she moved in with Jones when she was 17 years old, and the abuse began days later. She says she was in denial for years afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you really thought it was so bad, you would’ve screamed and yelled and told everybody. No,” she said, remembering her own thought process. “Sometimes we process things by accepting them and accepting them and accepting them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936017\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS50357_011_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS50357_011_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a high school building with columns and steps and a green lawn against a blue sky\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS50357_011_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS50357_011_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS50357_011_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS50357_011_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS50357_011_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Gatos High School is part of the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District, which in October settled with a former student for nearly $3.5 million following a suit about alleged abuse by former track coach Chioke Robinson in the 1990s. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the lawsuit, Daniela told a teacher about her relationship with Jones. The suit also alleges the sibling of another victim reported Jones to the principal after he married her sister. But school staff did not investigate the allegations or report him to the police, the lawsuit alleges. Instead, according to the suit, Jones worked in the district for decades, moving from school to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones was convicted of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Los Angeles Unified spokesperson declined to comment on the litigation, but said that the safety and well-being of students and employees remains the district’s top priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More lawsuits pour in\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That suit is one of dozens, if not hundreds, of lawsuits filed against school districts across the state over the last three years because of the law that temporarily set aside the statute of limitations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to an analysis from the firms Greenberg Gross LLP and Jeff Anderson and Associates, nearly 70 lawsuits have been filed against the Los Angeles Unified School District alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sean Tillis, attorney, Tillis Law Firm\"]‘The clergy cases get all the attention, but … the school cases that we see are only the tip of the iceberg.’[/pullquote]That number is likely an undercount of claims filed against the district, according to Mike Reck, attorney with Jeff Anderson and Associates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really is a testament to how deep this problem is,” Reck said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits highlight instances where children did try to tell adults in schools they were abused by school employees, but officials failed to protect students or notify law enforcement or other agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The clergy cases get all the attention, but I’m telling you, the school cases that we see are only the tip of the iceberg,” said Sean Tillis, an attorney with the Oakland-based Tillis Law Firm who handles sexual abuse cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that, in some cases, the publicity on the extended statute has motivated people to consider legal options — even if they never have before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re in denial, so they’re not going to know what a sex abuse statute is. They never think ‘litigation.’ They’re trying not to even think ‘abuse,'” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Williams, attorney with Greenberg Gross LLP, says that as the Dec. 31 deadline looms for older cases, victims continue to call his office daily to see if they have legal options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The calls haven’t stopped,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bay Area school districts settle for millions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most civil cases against school districts will end in settlements, forcing schools to pay millions of dollars to victims for abuse by school employees. Some already have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lauren Cerri, attorney with San José-based Corsiglia, McMahon and Allard, represented five men who recently reached a $7.5 million settlement with the Union School District over abuse by a teacher 40 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61701_001_KQED_AttorneyLaurenCerri_12192022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936015\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61701_001_KQED_AttorneyLaurenCerri_12192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a woman dressed in black with curly red hair sits on a mustard-colored sofa. She looks concerned\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61701_001_KQED_AttorneyLaurenCerri_12192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61701_001_KQED_AttorneyLaurenCerri_12192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61701_001_KQED_AttorneyLaurenCerri_12192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61701_001_KQED_AttorneyLaurenCerri_12192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61701_001_KQED_AttorneyLaurenCerri_12192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney Lauren Cerri at her office in San José. Cerri has represented several victims who successfully brought lawsuits against their former high schools and school districts for not appropriately responding to allegations of abuse. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cerri also represented a former student who reached a nearly $3.5 million settlement with the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District in October. When a victim in that case first approached her office about the school’s response to alleged abuse by former track coach Chioke Robinson in the 1990s, it was too late. Then AB 218 extended the statute of limitations, allowing the case to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If [people] come forward now, justice will more likely prevail,” Cerri said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said if people wait until after Dec. 31, when the three-year window is set to close, “their chances are sadly and arbitrarily a lot less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A last stand\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The California Child Victims Act also created permanent changes that allow people under the age of 40 the opportunity to sue. Before that, victims had until the age of 26 to file civil cases for childhood sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That change gives many more victims a shot at justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three former students at Miramonte High School in Orinda filed a lawsuit this month against the school and the Acalanes Union High School District. The students, who attended the school from 2007 to 2009, allege that school staff ignored red flags of grooming behavior and failed to investigate after students reported allegations of abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the complaint, Mark Christopher Litton taught English at Miramonte and targeted vulnerable girls who were passionate about writing, reading and poetry. He was sentenced in 2010 to two years in prison after pleading no contest to sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"'Jane Doe 2,' on learning that a teacher she had reported for harassment continued to teach and was ultimately arrested for sexually abusing another student\"]‘It felt like I had lost. I had failed. I had not protected anybody else except for myself, and that was a terrible feeling.’[/pullquote]In a statement, Acalanes Union High School District superintendent John Nickerson said the district is “extremely concerned to read the allegations related to how the District/school responded, or failed to respond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the victims, identified as Jane Doe 2 in court documents, asked not to be identified to protect her privacy, including from the teacher she says groomed and assaulted her while she was in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, she described how students at Miramonte High School were expected to be perfect and excel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing bad could ever happen. And if it did, there were plenty of ways to cover things up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Litton was well-loved on campus, and initially a mentor for her. But by senior year, the teacher’s behavior became more alarming. She said Litton described dreaming about her at night and left notes on her car. She said her classmates worried about her safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936016\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61721_001_KQED_MiramonteHS_12202022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936016\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61721_001_KQED_MiramonteHS_12202022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a yearbook photo shows a young man with a beard and glasses in a sweater vest, a teacher \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61721_001_KQED_MiramonteHS_12202022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61721_001_KQED_MiramonteHS_12202022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61721_001_KQED_MiramonteHS_12202022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61721_001_KQED_MiramonteHS_12202022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61721_001_KQED_MiramonteHS_12202022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Miramonte High School teacher Mark Litton pictured in a yearbook from the school in Orinda. Litton was sentenced in 2010 to two years in prison after pleading no contest to sexual abuse. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When she reported his behavior as well as concerns that he had sexually assaulted another classmate, she said school staff told her not to worry and that the school would look into it. When she graduated, she felt like she had won by making it through high school. Then in 2009, she learned that the teacher had been arrested for sexually abusing another student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It felt like I had lost. I had failed. I had not protected anybody else except for myself, and that was a terrible feeling. I remember dropping to my knees and throwing up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now 31, she’s roughly the age her teacher was when he allegedly groomed and assaulted her on campus. She is still working through the long-term impact of the abuse, and says pursuing this case has been terrifying and empowering at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This lawsuit, she says, has finally given her a chance to gain some control over her experience and get answers from the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an adult, there are so many things that I was able to look back on and see differently than as a child,” she said. “It was a last stand to acknowledge what had happened, and to potentially right a wrong and get closure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A state law that went into effect in 2020 opened a three-year window for victims to file claims that would otherwise be barred because of the statute of limitations — and dozens, if not hundreds, of lawsuits have been brought against school districts as a result.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1690402890,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":46,"wordCount":1870},"headData":{"title":"A Shot at Justice: Lawsuits Mount Over Sexual Abuse in California Schools as End-of-Year Deadline Approaches | KQED","description":"A state law that went into effect in 2020 opened a three-year window for victims to file claims that would otherwise be barred because of the statute of limitations — and dozens, if not hundreds, of lawsuits have been brought against school districts as a result.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"A Shot at Justice: Lawsuits Mount Over Sexual Abuse in California Schools as End-of-Year Deadline Approaches","datePublished":"2022-12-21T16:00:47.000Z","dateModified":"2023-07-26T20:21:30.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11935859/a-shot-at-justice-lawsuits-mount-over-sexual-abuse-in-california-schools-as-end-of-year-deadline-approaches","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Daniela attended Bell High School in Southeast Los Angeles County in the mid ‘90s, she was a student in Jeffrey Scott Jones’ Advanced Placement English class. As a teenager, she trusted him, and did not yet know the control he would have over her life for years into adulthood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniela, now 43, is one of three former students who married Jones, and one of five victims who say he sexually abused them when they were minors. \u003ca href=\"https://www.andersonadvocates.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/DOE-7064-DOE-7035-DOE-7063-v.-Los-Angeles-Unified-School-District-Jeffrey-Scott-Jones-et-al.-11.8.22.pdf\">She is now suing him (PDF)\u003c/a> and the Los Angeles Unified School District over claims that school leaders never investigated or notified police after multiple reports of misconduct. Daniela, who asked that we not use her legal name, spoke to KQED on the condition of anonymity because of fears about her safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were seen as poor kids, like we didn’t matter,” she said of her classmates, many of whom she said grew up in poverty. “But we do matter, and somebody should care.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11921799,news_11911375,news_11928350"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniela and countless others who say they were sexually abused as children are now able to file their claims in court because of a California state law that went into effect in 2020. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB218\">Assembly Bill 218\u003c/a>, or the California Child Victims Act, temporarily gives victims the chance to bring claims that would otherwise be barred because of the statute of limitations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure provides a three-year window in which victims of childhood sexual abuse can file complaints against perpetrators or their employers, regardless of how long ago the abuse occurred. That three-year window closes on Dec. 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys who handle abuse claims are urging victims in older cases to come forward before that date. If they wait, it could become harder — or, in some instances, impossible — to hold individuals or their employers accountable through the civil court system.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A pattern of abuse\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates for survivors say the extended statute of limitations offers an opportunity to force schools to reckon with historic wrongs through financial pressure. They also say it reflects \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalcac.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Disclosure-of-child-sexual-abuse-Delays-non-disclosures-and-partial-disclosures.-What-the-research-tells-us-and-implications-for-practice.pdf\">the reality that many victims do not report childhood abuse (PDF)\u003c/a> until years or decades later, if at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say victims may fear retaliation, or may not initially recognize what they experienced as abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniela says that when she was in high school, everyone adored Jones — including her. She and other students would go to his classroom just to talk. She says she told him everything, and even confided in him that she had been sexually abused by a family member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the lawsuit, Jones targeted young girls who were vulnerable for abuse. He instructed students to take personality tests and send him journal entries, and read students’ palms as a way to see their reaction to physical touch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniela says she moved in with Jones when she was 17 years old, and the abuse began days later. She says she was in denial for years afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you really thought it was so bad, you would’ve screamed and yelled and told everybody. No,” she said, remembering her own thought process. “Sometimes we process things by accepting them and accepting them and accepting them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936017\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS50357_011_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS50357_011_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a high school building with columns and steps and a green lawn against a blue sky\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS50357_011_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS50357_011_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS50357_011_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS50357_011_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS50357_011_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Gatos High School is part of the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District, which in October settled with a former student for nearly $3.5 million following a suit about alleged abuse by former track coach Chioke Robinson in the 1990s. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the lawsuit, Daniela told a teacher about her relationship with Jones. The suit also alleges the sibling of another victim reported Jones to the principal after he married her sister. But school staff did not investigate the allegations or report him to the police, the lawsuit alleges. Instead, according to the suit, Jones worked in the district for decades, moving from school to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones was convicted of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Los Angeles Unified spokesperson declined to comment on the litigation, but said that the safety and well-being of students and employees remains the district’s top priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More lawsuits pour in\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That suit is one of dozens, if not hundreds, of lawsuits filed against school districts across the state over the last three years because of the law that temporarily set aside the statute of limitations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to an analysis from the firms Greenberg Gross LLP and Jeff Anderson and Associates, nearly 70 lawsuits have been filed against the Los Angeles Unified School District alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The clergy cases get all the attention, but … the school cases that we see are only the tip of the iceberg.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Sean Tillis, attorney, Tillis Law Firm","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That number is likely an undercount of claims filed against the district, according to Mike Reck, attorney with Jeff Anderson and Associates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really is a testament to how deep this problem is,” Reck said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits highlight instances where children did try to tell adults in schools they were abused by school employees, but officials failed to protect students or notify law enforcement or other agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The clergy cases get all the attention, but I’m telling you, the school cases that we see are only the tip of the iceberg,” said Sean Tillis, an attorney with the Oakland-based Tillis Law Firm who handles sexual abuse cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that, in some cases, the publicity on the extended statute has motivated people to consider legal options — even if they never have before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re in denial, so they’re not going to know what a sex abuse statute is. They never think ‘litigation.’ They’re trying not to even think ‘abuse,'” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Williams, attorney with Greenberg Gross LLP, says that as the Dec. 31 deadline looms for older cases, victims continue to call his office daily to see if they have legal options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The calls haven’t stopped,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bay Area school districts settle for millions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Most civil cases against school districts will end in settlements, forcing schools to pay millions of dollars to victims for abuse by school employees. Some already have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lauren Cerri, attorney with San José-based Corsiglia, McMahon and Allard, represented five men who recently reached a $7.5 million settlement with the Union School District over abuse by a teacher 40 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61701_001_KQED_AttorneyLaurenCerri_12192022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936015\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61701_001_KQED_AttorneyLaurenCerri_12192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a woman dressed in black with curly red hair sits on a mustard-colored sofa. She looks concerned\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61701_001_KQED_AttorneyLaurenCerri_12192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61701_001_KQED_AttorneyLaurenCerri_12192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61701_001_KQED_AttorneyLaurenCerri_12192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61701_001_KQED_AttorneyLaurenCerri_12192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61701_001_KQED_AttorneyLaurenCerri_12192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney Lauren Cerri at her office in San José. Cerri has represented several victims who successfully brought lawsuits against their former high schools and school districts for not appropriately responding to allegations of abuse. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cerri also represented a former student who reached a nearly $3.5 million settlement with the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District in October. When a victim in that case first approached her office about the school’s response to alleged abuse by former track coach Chioke Robinson in the 1990s, it was too late. Then AB 218 extended the statute of limitations, allowing the case to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If [people] come forward now, justice will more likely prevail,” Cerri said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said if people wait until after Dec. 31, when the three-year window is set to close, “their chances are sadly and arbitrarily a lot less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A last stand\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The California Child Victims Act also created permanent changes that allow people under the age of 40 the opportunity to sue. Before that, victims had until the age of 26 to file civil cases for childhood sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That change gives many more victims a shot at justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three former students at Miramonte High School in Orinda filed a lawsuit this month against the school and the Acalanes Union High School District. The students, who attended the school from 2007 to 2009, allege that school staff ignored red flags of grooming behavior and failed to investigate after students reported allegations of abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the complaint, Mark Christopher Litton taught English at Miramonte and targeted vulnerable girls who were passionate about writing, reading and poetry. He was sentenced in 2010 to two years in prison after pleading no contest to sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘It felt like I had lost. I had failed. I had not protected anybody else except for myself, and that was a terrible feeling.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"'Jane Doe 2,' on learning that a teacher she had reported for harassment continued to teach and was ultimately arrested for sexually abusing another student","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In a statement, Acalanes Union High School District superintendent John Nickerson said the district is “extremely concerned to read the allegations related to how the District/school responded, or failed to respond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the victims, identified as Jane Doe 2 in court documents, asked not to be identified to protect her privacy, including from the teacher she says groomed and assaulted her while she was in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, she described how students at Miramonte High School were expected to be perfect and excel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing bad could ever happen. And if it did, there were plenty of ways to cover things up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Litton was well-loved on campus, and initially a mentor for her. But by senior year, the teacher’s behavior became more alarming. She said Litton described dreaming about her at night and left notes on her car. She said her classmates worried about her safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936016\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61721_001_KQED_MiramonteHS_12202022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936016\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61721_001_KQED_MiramonteHS_12202022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a yearbook photo shows a young man with a beard and glasses in a sweater vest, a teacher \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61721_001_KQED_MiramonteHS_12202022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61721_001_KQED_MiramonteHS_12202022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61721_001_KQED_MiramonteHS_12202022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61721_001_KQED_MiramonteHS_12202022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61721_001_KQED_MiramonteHS_12202022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Miramonte High School teacher Mark Litton pictured in a yearbook from the school in Orinda. Litton was sentenced in 2010 to two years in prison after pleading no contest to sexual abuse. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When she reported his behavior as well as concerns that he had sexually assaulted another classmate, she said school staff told her not to worry and that the school would look into it. When she graduated, she felt like she had won by making it through high school. Then in 2009, she learned that the teacher had been arrested for sexually abusing another student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It felt like I had lost. I had failed. I had not protected anybody else except for myself, and that was a terrible feeling. I remember dropping to my knees and throwing up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now 31, she’s roughly the age her teacher was when he allegedly groomed and assaulted her on campus. She is still working through the long-term impact of the abuse, and says pursuing this case has been terrifying and empowering at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This lawsuit, she says, has finally given her a chance to gain some control over her experience and get answers from the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an adult, there are so many things that I was able to look back on and see differently than as a child,” she said. “It was a last stand to acknowledge what had happened, and to potentially right a wrong and get closure.”\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>\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/11935859/a-shot-at-justice-lawsuits-mount-over-sexual-abuse-in-california-schools-as-end-of-year-deadline-approaches","authors":["11635"],"categories":["news_18540","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_32196","news_30911","news_5568","news_1527","news_2838"],"featImg":"news_11936014","label":"news"},"news_11926505":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11926505","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11926505","score":null,"sort":[1663927242000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bart-not-one-more-girl","title":"Pushing to Make BART Safer for Women and Girls","publishDate":1663927242,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Pushing to Make BART Safer for Women and Girls | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Not One More Girl campaign launched in 2020 after a survey of Bay Area youth found that women and girls feared for their safety when using public transportation. Spearheaded by youth, the campaign outlined ways to make BART safer. More than a year since we first aired this episode, the BART board amended its code of conduct to explicitly prohibit sexual harassment. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Guests:\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Haleema Bharoocha\u003c/strong>, senior advocacy manager at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.alliance4girls.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alliance for Girls\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003cstrong>Santana Tapia\u003c/strong>, with the #NotOneMoreGirl campaign and co-founder of Fluid Coffee and Event\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This episode first aired on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11883908/the-youth-making-bart-safer-for-women-and-girls-as-service-resumes\">Aug. 6, 2021.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC8393279517&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Your support makes KQED podcasts possible. You can show your love by going to \u003ca href=\"https://kqed.org/donate/podcasts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">https://kqed.org/donate/podcasts.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700690316,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":6,"wordCount":120},"headData":{"title":"Pushing to Make BART Safer for Women and Girls | KQED","description":"The Not One More Girl campaign launched in 2020 after a survey of Bay Area youth found that women and girls feared for their safety when using public transportation. Spearheaded by youth, the campaign outlined ways to make BART safer. 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Spearheaded by youth, the campaign outlined ways to make BART safer. More than a year since we first aired this episode, the BART board amended its code of conduct to explicitly prohibit sexual harassment. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Guests:\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Haleema Bharoocha\u003c/strong>, senior advocacy manager at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.alliance4girls.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alliance for Girls\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003cstrong>Santana Tapia\u003c/strong>, with the #NotOneMoreGirl campaign and co-founder of Fluid Coffee and Event\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This episode first aired on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11883908/the-youth-making-bart-safer-for-women-and-girls-as-service-resumes\">Aug. 6, 2021.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC8393279517&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Your support makes KQED podcasts possible. 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Then Chaos Broke Out","publishDate":1659970821,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Oakland School for the Arts Students Shared Allegations of Sexual Misconduct. Then Chaos Broke Out | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>On Sept. 30, 2021, hundreds of students at Oakland School for the Arts walked out of class to protest sexual misconduct both on and off campus. Students marched to nearby Uptown ArtPark, where organizers said they read a list of demands that included calls for the school to hold regular assemblies about consent and improve the sex education curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya McCall, 17, who was a senior at the time, helped plan the protest. In an interview with KQED, she said dozens of students lined up that day in the blazing heat for a chance to share their experiences with harassment or assault. Classmates hugged, wore blue to show solidarity and cheered, “We believe you,” and “You’re not alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just so much love and support that you don’t know what to do,” McCall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that feeling didn’t last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/008_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921862\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/008_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/008_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/008_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/008_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/008_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/008_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As a senior at Oakland School for the Arts, Maya McCall helped organize the walkout to protest sexual misconduct. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of the young people who attended the walkout were allegedly retaliated against by students or their family members, according to accounts by classmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certain boys were allegedly called rapists and bullied by other students, according to several parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Sherman-Colt, the school’s executive director at the time, sent an email to the school community that in response to bullying, “there have been several fights and physical or verbal altercations on campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the accusations made against students “almost exclusively [targeted] black heterosexual males.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers said the response from the school created a false division, and undermined the trust of women of color who had experienced abuse and spoke at the walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Oz, the current executive director of the school, declined to be interviewed, but wrote in a March 20 email, “My leadership team and I are one hundred percent focused on providing the support and services our students, families and faculty need as a result of the walkout.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11859164,news_11911375\"]The upheaval at OSA is not an isolated event, but part of a national movement by students to get schools to take concerns about sexual harassment and abuse seriously, and to create safe ways for students to report incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faced with inaction by administrators, students in California and around the country have also tried to protect themselves or their friends. In February, a Fortuna High School student was suspended after she wore a T-shirt with the name of an alleged perpetrator and a text message he reportedly sent defending his behavior. Student activists in San Francisco, Berkeley and Los Gatos have said classmates faced social consequences, were harassed online or were threatened with lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an attempt to understand what led to the September walkout at OSA and the chaotic aftermath, KQED spoke with 24 students and alumni. Almost all of them said the school had failed over the years to respond adequately to sexual harassment or abusive behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The publishing of this reporting, which includes several months of interviews and the review of dozens of records, comes just days after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/04/oakland-high-school-teacher-charged-with-molesting-student-in-2004-remained-with-school-for-17-years-after-alleged-crimes-despite-warnings/\">Bay Area News Group reported\u003c/a> that a teacher at Oakland School of the Arts, Jeremy Taylor, had been “arrested and charged with molesting a then-14-year-old girl throughout her freshman year, in 2004.” The alleged crime was reported to police last year, according to police records. But Taylor, who was described as “creepy” by a student, was no longer in “active status” at the school effective Jan. 13, according to a memo obtained by KQED that was sent to OSA families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to OSA families sent Sunday, Oz wrote that the school was notified of allegations against Taylor by Oakland police on Jan. 3, and Taylor was put on “inactive status” that day and “never returned to teach at OSA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;font-weight: bold\">A refuge for young artists\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit charter school was founded in 2002 by then-Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown to promote the study of arts. Middle and high school students study subjects like theater, dance and fashion design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zendaya and Angus Cloud, stars on the hit HBO show “Euphoria,” attended the school. So did Leila Mottley, author of “Nightcrawling” and the youngest writer ever selected by Oprah’s Book Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While several students and alumni who spoke with KQED described OSA as a refuge for young artists, they also believed the school at times used its reputation as a safe space and progressive art institution to dismiss harassment or abuse. Several said they were not taken seriously when they reported abusive or inappropriate behavior. Others said they did not complain to administrators because they did not expect support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921868\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OSAImarraHunter_06152022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921868\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OSAImarraHunter_06152022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OSAImarraHunter_06152022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OSAImarraHunter_06152022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OSAImarraHunter_06152022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OSAImarraHunter_06152022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OSAImarraHunter_06152022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Oakland School for the Arts student Imarra Hunter at a park across from the school in Oakland. Hunter loved studying theater in school, but was crushed her junior year after she said a school security guard sexually harassed her. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Imarra Hunter, 23, graduated from OSA in 2017. In a recent interview, she said she loved studying theater in school, but was crushed her junior year after a school security guard sexually harassed her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter said she was in the hallway getting a drink of water when the guard, Tamaris Usher, asked her why she needed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘I need to take some water with my birth control,’” Hunter recalled. “Once he (saw) that I was taking birth control, he then called me a ‘whore.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter and her mom reported the incident to Donn Harris, OSA’s executive director at the time of the incident. According to Hunter, Harris said his goal was to save the security guard’s job and offered to station the man in a different part of the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to KQED, Harris asserted that the school took the allegations seriously. Records show the school placed Usher on leave the day Hunter reported the incident. A termination notice shared with KQED shows Usher was terminated after nine days and not allowed on campus during the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter’s mom sued OSA in 2016 for failing to protect students from sexual harassment. The complaint alleged that school administrators knew that the security guard “had previously accosted other female students in a similar manner, but was neither disciplined nor terminated for such behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case was settled in 2017. Usher declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter, who majors in theater and communication studies in college, says she’s still wary of getting close to male administrators or teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would hate for them to feel comfortable enough to say anything degrading,” Hunter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921861\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg\" alt=\"a young woman in jeans and a green hoodie leans against a brick wall\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland School of the Arts senior Susanna De Angelis Nelson in downtown Oakland. After they reported sexual harassment by another student to the dean, they said the teacher moved the boy’s seat next to them and the harassment got worse. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Hunter filed her lawsuit, Susanna De Angelis Nelson, 18, was in middle school at OSA. They said they loved being surrounded by art and artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was literally in heaven,” De Angelis Nelson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in high school, they saw another side to campus life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the 2018-2019 school year, De Angelis Nelson said a student made repeated sexual comments and touched them without consent. After they reported the sexual harassment to the dean, they said the teacher moved the boy’s seat next to them and the harassment got worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t love the fact that (administrators) say their No. 1 priority is for students to be safe, but that’s the exact opposite of what they’re doing,” De Angelis Nelson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2019-2020 school year, several students told KQED they learned classmates were sharing nude photos of female students via social media in what was allegedly known as the “Pokemon Traders” group chat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921886\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/005_KQED_CassidyKannerGomesOSA_06222022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921886\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/005_KQED_CassidyKannerGomesOSA_06222022.jpg\" alt=\"a young woman with purple hair, a tank top and jeans sits on a bench in a park\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/005_KQED_CassidyKannerGomesOSA_06222022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/005_KQED_CassidyKannerGomesOSA_06222022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/005_KQED_CassidyKannerGomesOSA_06222022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/005_KQED_CassidyKannerGomesOSA_06222022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/005_KQED_CassidyKannerGomesOSA_06222022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland School for the Arts student Cassidy Kanner-Gomes, a member of the school’s Student Safety Committee, says the administration did not support students who spoke out about harassment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Students said the school was aware of the group chat. Cassidy Kanner-Gomes, 17, a rising senior at OSA, said because the school did not communicate about the situation with the student body, rumors began to spread. She remembers walking down the hallway and seeing people staring at the girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The least (the school) could’ve done was give the girls support, which I really don’t think they did,” Kanner-Gomes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Borg, a spokesperson for OSA, did not respond to questions from KQED about the group chat or how the school handled allegations made by students. But, in a written statement, he said, “Students do not always fully understand the complexities of what has occurred. Equally important they don’t always fully grasp the privacy and due process regulations we are required to follow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a teaching institution, we are striving to make sure all of our students feel safe and have agency,” he added. “Much of our restorative work has included education and training in the areas of consent, proper use of social media, bullying, cyber bullying, and procedures to report abuse and how these submissions will be handled.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Maya McCall\"]‘The amount of instances of sexual violence that we’ve seen, heard, experienced — all that on campus — is ridiculous.’[/pullquote]For the students who started the Student Safety Committee, the tipping point that compelled them to organize was an April 2021 Instagram post in which a former OSA student detailed allegations of sexual assault by a popular alum. The post generated an outpouring of stories by other students and alumni who said they had been harassed or assaulted in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justine Courtenay-Huang, 19, a senior at the time, saw the need to create a space for survivors and advocate for protections at the school. Courtenay-Huang created a group chat on the instant messaging app Discord for students to host movie nights, share experiences with sexual abuse or harassment and brainstorm ways to make the school safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It felt like an exhale. Like you’ve been holding your breath for a really long time and finally get a little breath in,” Courtenay-Huang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We’re tired. We’re fed up.’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The group chat evolved into the Student Safety Committee, which met with school administrators over Zoom — this was during distance learning — to press for solutions. When students returned to campus in the fall of 2021, they said, they wanted more education about sexual harassment and abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCall, Kanner-Gomes and De Angelis Nelson were all committee members. But they said they didn’t see any progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCall said when she returned to campus, she saw sexual harassment resume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The amount of instances of sexual violence that we’ve seen, heard, experienced — all that on campus — is ridiculous,” McCall said. “We’re tired. We’re fed up.”[aside postID=\"news_11907261\" hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Image-from-iOS-2-1020x765.jpg']So the Student Safety Committee led a walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students said the protest that was meant to create safety and community led to conflict the school was unprepared to manage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours after the walkout, members of the Student Safety Committee began hearing reports that some girls who attended the action were being threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re getting a bunch of people telling us, ‘I’m being threatened,’ and we’re getting screenshots of threats,” said McCall. “So then we’re like, ‘Oh crap, like, what do we do?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, organizers with the Student Safety Committee said they tried to warn school officials that people were likely to get hurt if they didn’t take their concerns seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student Safety Committee member Tai–Ge Min, 18, remembers speaking to a revolving door of administrators and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were just begging for attention, begging, like, ‘Please, we’re getting these messages, help us.’ And not really anything was being done,” Min said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/004_KQED_OSATaiGeMin_06152022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921909\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/004_KQED_OSATaiGeMin_06152022.jpg\" alt=\"a young woman with short hair and glasses in a blue shirt sits cross-legged in a park\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/004_KQED_OSATaiGeMin_06152022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/004_KQED_OSATaiGeMin_06152022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/004_KQED_OSATaiGeMin_06152022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/004_KQED_OSATaiGeMin_06152022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/004_KQED_OSATaiGeMin_06152022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland School for the Arts alum Tai-Ge Min. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson at OSA did not respond to questions about how OSA responded, but said, “There are clear procedures in place when there is a reported issue and all issues are investigated thoroughly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School closed for a day, but when students returned to campus, emotions were still raw. Classmates said it was like waiting for something to go wrong, and then it did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were at least two physical attacks on campus. A parent said her son, a new member of the Student Safety Committee, had bruises on his neck from being assaulted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classmates said another student was physically attacked after he made memes about the group chat where explicit images were allegedly traded. The memes named specific boys and mocked the administration’s response, and students said the boy who made the memes was suspended for cyberbullying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCall said she was in the hallway with a friend when boys yelled misogynistic, homophobic comments and charged at them. She said staff held the boys back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school did not respond to questions about the alleged incidents. Several parents criticized OSA’s response in a letter to the school’s board of directors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The administration, in essence, did nothing to prevent the assaults that occurred,” they wrote, adding that it was unclear what would be done to make their children safe at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter also cited the so-called “Pokemon Traders” group chat as an example of the school’s past failure to address sexual misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This issue was not addressed system-wide by the administration,” the parents wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Race and gender\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In response to the turmoil on campus, Sherman-Colt, who left her job as executive director earlier this year, wrote to the OSA community that students had been suspended for assault, harassment and cyberbullying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OSA is continuing its investigations, reflections, and development regarding sexual violence, racial injustice, and white supremacy culture — all of which have impacted the school community this week,” Sherman-Colt wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherman-Colt, now the chief program officer at Cayton Children’s Museum in Santa Monica according to her LinkedIn profile, did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The atmosphere on campus and online was already tense, and some students said the email only made it worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a virtual board of directors meeting on Oct. 14, 2021, several parents gave impassioned speeches about how Black boys at the school were being bullied and harassed by their peers without evidence they had done anything wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One parent, whom KQED is not naming to protect his son’s safety, pleaded for people to take these concerns seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921854\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg\" alt=\"A girl sits on a park bench.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland School of the Arts senior Aisling Baus in downtown Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Whenever someone speaks about Black boys being called rapists online and in school, in front of teachers and walking the hallways, no one talks about the mental anguish that they will go through the rest of our lives,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parent declined to be interviewed for this story, but sent KQED a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is hard to believe that this kind of racial violence and discrimination would occur in 2022 in downtown Oakland at a school that was founded to serve students of color,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other parents of boys accused also declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the meeting, McCall and other members of the Student Safety Committee gave a presentation to explain their perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Staff has been focusing on the race of the accused instead of the race of the victims, who have all been women of color,” McCall said. “You can protect us, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the meeting Oz said, “I feel bad. I feel stupid in this moment for not predicting the gravity of that situation more accurately. For that I want to take responsibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oz addressed a parent who asked how to choose which side to support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The side is to support our students,” he said. “We’re a school. We support all of our 796 students. That’s what we do here. Sometimes students are going to make mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes are going to be huge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Investigators: Most claims ‘not backed by evidence, unfounded’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Soon after the walkout, the school announced it had hired an outside firm to investigate allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly seven months after the walkout, school leadership sent an email to the campus community that said most allegations made after the walkout were either “not backed by evidence, unfounded, or in some instances a result of mistaken identity or assumed guilt by association.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Mike Oz, executive director, Oakland School for the Arts\"]‘We support all of our 796 students … Sometimes students are going to make mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes are going to be huge.’[/pullquote]It’s unclear, however, which allegations or how many were reported to the school and investigated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The email went on to say, “We still have members of our community, specifically the falsely accused African American boys and their families, hurting, and this must be addressed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Levenson, an advisor for BHS Stop Harassing, a Berkeley High School student group, had volunteered to assist OSA after the walkout. She called the school’s statement brave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I say that through the lens of someone who has sat with so many survivors of sexual harm,” she said. “You do not get to destroy someone’s life because you’re mad or because you had a bad experience or you experienced assaults. That’s not how this works.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student Safety Committee member Tai-Ge Min said OSA’s focus on false allegations missed the bigger picture, and left survivors who still needed support out of the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Min said some classmates did not want to file complaints about abuse because they did not trust the school to support them, or were worried the administration would notify police. But because few classmates wanted to make formal allegations, Min said people accused victims of making up elaborate stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Justice has never really come to anyone at OSA,” Min said. “But those girls, however you define justice, they never got any of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leah Kimble-Price with Bay Area Women Against Rape worries about the long-term impact of OSA’s communications about the walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921915\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/009_KQED_OSAJustineAda_06272022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921915\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/009_KQED_OSAJustineAda_06272022.jpg\" alt=\"Two girls sit on the ground in front of a large building.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/009_KQED_OSAJustineAda_06272022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/009_KQED_OSAJustineAda_06272022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/009_KQED_OSAJustineAda_06272022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/009_KQED_OSAJustineAda_06272022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/009_KQED_OSAJustineAda_06272022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adaleyd DeLeon (left) and Justine Courtenay-Huang, co-founders of the Student Safety Committee at Oakland School for the Arts. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want people to be describing or mischaracterizing something that’s not happening. But for a lot of young people, it is happening,” she said. “This communication, the subtext here is that you may not be believed, and that is devastating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the concerns that led to the walkout continue. Before the school year ended, an anonymous user shared a graphic and offensive post on Instagram that said the girls involved in the walkout weren’t raped or “worthy of getting raped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school did not respond to a question about the post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCall, Min and De Angelis Nelson graduated in the spring, but Kanner-Gomes plans to bring administrators carefully crafted ideas on where the school can improve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Here’s what we think you can do. We’re here to work on this with you. Can you please just really listen?’’’ she said. “If we do that, it’s a lot harder to ignore us.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"After students at an Oakland high school walked out of class last fall to address sexual abuse, they say parents and school administrators turned on them, accusing students of spreading false allegations.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1701976004,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":90,"wordCount":3413},"headData":{"title":"Oakland School for the Arts Students Shared Allegations of Sexual Misconduct. Then Chaos Broke Out | KQED","description":"After students at an Oakland high school walked out of class last fall to address sexual abuse, they say parents and school administrators turned on them, accusing students of spreading false allegations.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Oakland School for the Arts Students Shared Allegations of Sexual Misconduct. Then Chaos Broke Out","datePublished":"2022-08-08T15:00:21.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-07T19:06:44.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11921799/students-shared-allegations-of-sexual-misconduct-at-oakland-school-for-the-arts-then-chaos-broke-out","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Sept. 30, 2021, hundreds of students at Oakland School for the Arts walked out of class to protest sexual misconduct both on and off campus. Students marched to nearby Uptown ArtPark, where organizers said they read a list of demands that included calls for the school to hold regular assemblies about consent and improve the sex education curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya McCall, 17, who was a senior at the time, helped plan the protest. In an interview with KQED, she said dozens of students lined up that day in the blazing heat for a chance to share their experiences with harassment or assault. Classmates hugged, wore blue to show solidarity and cheered, “We believe you,” and “You’re not alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just so much love and support that you don’t know what to do,” McCall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that feeling didn’t last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/008_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921862\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/008_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/008_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/008_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/008_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/008_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/008_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As a senior at Oakland School for the Arts, Maya McCall helped organize the walkout to protest sexual misconduct. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of the young people who attended the walkout were allegedly retaliated against by students or their family members, according to accounts by classmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certain boys were allegedly called rapists and bullied by other students, according to several parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Sherman-Colt, the school’s executive director at the time, sent an email to the school community that in response to bullying, “there have been several fights and physical or verbal altercations on campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the accusations made against students “almost exclusively [targeted] black heterosexual males.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers said the response from the school created a false division, and undermined the trust of women of color who had experienced abuse and spoke at the walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Oz, the current executive director of the school, declined to be interviewed, but wrote in a March 20 email, “My leadership team and I are one hundred percent focused on providing the support and services our students, families and faculty need as a result of the walkout.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11859164,news_11911375"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The upheaval at OSA is not an isolated event, but part of a national movement by students to get schools to take concerns about sexual harassment and abuse seriously, and to create safe ways for students to report incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faced with inaction by administrators, students in California and around the country have also tried to protect themselves or their friends. In February, a Fortuna High School student was suspended after she wore a T-shirt with the name of an alleged perpetrator and a text message he reportedly sent defending his behavior. Student activists in San Francisco, Berkeley and Los Gatos have said classmates faced social consequences, were harassed online or were threatened with lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an attempt to understand what led to the September walkout at OSA and the chaotic aftermath, KQED spoke with 24 students and alumni. Almost all of them said the school had failed over the years to respond adequately to sexual harassment or abusive behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The publishing of this reporting, which includes several months of interviews and the review of dozens of records, comes just days after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/04/oakland-high-school-teacher-charged-with-molesting-student-in-2004-remained-with-school-for-17-years-after-alleged-crimes-despite-warnings/\">Bay Area News Group reported\u003c/a> that a teacher at Oakland School of the Arts, Jeremy Taylor, had been “arrested and charged with molesting a then-14-year-old girl throughout her freshman year, in 2004.” The alleged crime was reported to police last year, according to police records. But Taylor, who was described as “creepy” by a student, was no longer in “active status” at the school effective Jan. 13, according to a memo obtained by KQED that was sent to OSA families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to OSA families sent Sunday, Oz wrote that the school was notified of allegations against Taylor by Oakland police on Jan. 3, and Taylor was put on “inactive status” that day and “never returned to teach at OSA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;font-weight: bold\">A refuge for young artists\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit charter school was founded in 2002 by then-Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown to promote the study of arts. Middle and high school students study subjects like theater, dance and fashion design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zendaya and Angus Cloud, stars on the hit HBO show “Euphoria,” attended the school. So did Leila Mottley, author of “Nightcrawling” and the youngest writer ever selected by Oprah’s Book Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While several students and alumni who spoke with KQED described OSA as a refuge for young artists, they also believed the school at times used its reputation as a safe space and progressive art institution to dismiss harassment or abuse. Several said they were not taken seriously when they reported abusive or inappropriate behavior. Others said they did not complain to administrators because they did not expect support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921868\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OSAImarraHunter_06152022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921868\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OSAImarraHunter_06152022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OSAImarraHunter_06152022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OSAImarraHunter_06152022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OSAImarraHunter_06152022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OSAImarraHunter_06152022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OSAImarraHunter_06152022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Oakland School for the Arts student Imarra Hunter at a park across from the school in Oakland. Hunter loved studying theater in school, but was crushed her junior year after she said a school security guard sexually harassed her. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Imarra Hunter, 23, graduated from OSA in 2017. In a recent interview, she said she loved studying theater in school, but was crushed her junior year after a school security guard sexually harassed her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter said she was in the hallway getting a drink of water when the guard, Tamaris Usher, asked her why she needed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘I need to take some water with my birth control,’” Hunter recalled. “Once he (saw) that I was taking birth control, he then called me a ‘whore.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter and her mom reported the incident to Donn Harris, OSA’s executive director at the time of the incident. According to Hunter, Harris said his goal was to save the security guard’s job and offered to station the man in a different part of the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to KQED, Harris asserted that the school took the allegations seriously. Records show the school placed Usher on leave the day Hunter reported the incident. A termination notice shared with KQED shows Usher was terminated after nine days and not allowed on campus during the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter’s mom sued OSA in 2016 for failing to protect students from sexual harassment. The complaint alleged that school administrators knew that the security guard “had previously accosted other female students in a similar manner, but was neither disciplined nor terminated for such behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case was settled in 2017. Usher declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter, who majors in theater and communication studies in college, says she’s still wary of getting close to male administrators or teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would hate for them to feel comfortable enough to say anything degrading,” Hunter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921861\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg\" alt=\"a young woman in jeans and a green hoodie leans against a brick wall\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland School of the Arts senior Susanna De Angelis Nelson in downtown Oakland. After they reported sexual harassment by another student to the dean, they said the teacher moved the boy’s seat next to them and the harassment got worse. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Hunter filed her lawsuit, Susanna De Angelis Nelson, 18, was in middle school at OSA. They said they loved being surrounded by art and artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was literally in heaven,” De Angelis Nelson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in high school, they saw another side to campus life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the 2018-2019 school year, De Angelis Nelson said a student made repeated sexual comments and touched them without consent. After they reported the sexual harassment to the dean, they said the teacher moved the boy’s seat next to them and the harassment got worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t love the fact that (administrators) say their No. 1 priority is for students to be safe, but that’s the exact opposite of what they’re doing,” De Angelis Nelson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2019-2020 school year, several students told KQED they learned classmates were sharing nude photos of female students via social media in what was allegedly known as the “Pokemon Traders” group chat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921886\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/005_KQED_CassidyKannerGomesOSA_06222022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921886\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/005_KQED_CassidyKannerGomesOSA_06222022.jpg\" alt=\"a young woman with purple hair, a tank top and jeans sits on a bench in a park\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/005_KQED_CassidyKannerGomesOSA_06222022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/005_KQED_CassidyKannerGomesOSA_06222022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/005_KQED_CassidyKannerGomesOSA_06222022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/005_KQED_CassidyKannerGomesOSA_06222022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/005_KQED_CassidyKannerGomesOSA_06222022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland School for the Arts student Cassidy Kanner-Gomes, a member of the school’s Student Safety Committee, says the administration did not support students who spoke out about harassment. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Students said the school was aware of the group chat. Cassidy Kanner-Gomes, 17, a rising senior at OSA, said because the school did not communicate about the situation with the student body, rumors began to spread. She remembers walking down the hallway and seeing people staring at the girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The least (the school) could’ve done was give the girls support, which I really don’t think they did,” Kanner-Gomes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Borg, a spokesperson for OSA, did not respond to questions from KQED about the group chat or how the school handled allegations made by students. But, in a written statement, he said, “Students do not always fully understand the complexities of what has occurred. Equally important they don’t always fully grasp the privacy and due process regulations we are required to follow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a teaching institution, we are striving to make sure all of our students feel safe and have agency,” he added. “Much of our restorative work has included education and training in the areas of consent, proper use of social media, bullying, cyber bullying, and procedures to report abuse and how these submissions will be handled.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The amount of instances of sexual violence that we’ve seen, heard, experienced — all that on campus — is ridiculous.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Maya McCall","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>For the students who started the Student Safety Committee, the tipping point that compelled them to organize was an April 2021 Instagram post in which a former OSA student detailed allegations of sexual assault by a popular alum. The post generated an outpouring of stories by other students and alumni who said they had been harassed or assaulted in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justine Courtenay-Huang, 19, a senior at the time, saw the need to create a space for survivors and advocate for protections at the school. Courtenay-Huang created a group chat on the instant messaging app Discord for students to host movie nights, share experiences with sexual abuse or harassment and brainstorm ways to make the school safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It felt like an exhale. Like you’ve been holding your breath for a really long time and finally get a little breath in,” Courtenay-Huang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We’re tired. We’re fed up.’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The group chat evolved into the Student Safety Committee, which met with school administrators over Zoom — this was during distance learning — to press for solutions. When students returned to campus in the fall of 2021, they said, they wanted more education about sexual harassment and abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCall, Kanner-Gomes and De Angelis Nelson were all committee members. But they said they didn’t see any progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCall said when she returned to campus, she saw sexual harassment resume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The amount of instances of sexual violence that we’ve seen, heard, experienced — all that on campus — is ridiculous,” McCall said. “We’re tired. We’re fed up.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11907261","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Image-from-iOS-2-1020x765.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>So the Student Safety Committee led a walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students said the protest that was meant to create safety and community led to conflict the school was unprepared to manage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours after the walkout, members of the Student Safety Committee began hearing reports that some girls who attended the action were being threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re getting a bunch of people telling us, ‘I’m being threatened,’ and we’re getting screenshots of threats,” said McCall. “So then we’re like, ‘Oh crap, like, what do we do?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, organizers with the Student Safety Committee said they tried to warn school officials that people were likely to get hurt if they didn’t take their concerns seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student Safety Committee member Tai–Ge Min, 18, remembers speaking to a revolving door of administrators and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were just begging for attention, begging, like, ‘Please, we’re getting these messages, help us.’ And not really anything was being done,” Min said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/004_KQED_OSATaiGeMin_06152022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921909\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/004_KQED_OSATaiGeMin_06152022.jpg\" alt=\"a young woman with short hair and glasses in a blue shirt sits cross-legged in a park\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/004_KQED_OSATaiGeMin_06152022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/004_KQED_OSATaiGeMin_06152022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/004_KQED_OSATaiGeMin_06152022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/004_KQED_OSATaiGeMin_06152022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/004_KQED_OSATaiGeMin_06152022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland School for the Arts alum Tai-Ge Min. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson at OSA did not respond to questions about how OSA responded, but said, “There are clear procedures in place when there is a reported issue and all issues are investigated thoroughly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School closed for a day, but when students returned to campus, emotions were still raw. Classmates said it was like waiting for something to go wrong, and then it did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were at least two physical attacks on campus. A parent said her son, a new member of the Student Safety Committee, had bruises on his neck from being assaulted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classmates said another student was physically attacked after he made memes about the group chat where explicit images were allegedly traded. The memes named specific boys and mocked the administration’s response, and students said the boy who made the memes was suspended for cyberbullying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCall said she was in the hallway with a friend when boys yelled misogynistic, homophobic comments and charged at them. She said staff held the boys back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school did not respond to questions about the alleged incidents. Several parents criticized OSA’s response in a letter to the school’s board of directors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The administration, in essence, did nothing to prevent the assaults that occurred,” they wrote, adding that it was unclear what would be done to make their children safe at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter also cited the so-called “Pokemon Traders” group chat as an example of the school’s past failure to address sexual misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This issue was not addressed system-wide by the administration,” the parents wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Race and gender\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In response to the turmoil on campus, Sherman-Colt, who left her job as executive director earlier this year, wrote to the OSA community that students had been suspended for assault, harassment and cyberbullying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OSA is continuing its investigations, reflections, and development regarding sexual violence, racial injustice, and white supremacy culture — all of which have impacted the school community this week,” Sherman-Colt wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherman-Colt, now the chief program officer at Cayton Children’s Museum in Santa Monica according to her LinkedIn profile, did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The atmosphere on campus and online was already tense, and some students said the email only made it worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a virtual board of directors meeting on Oct. 14, 2021, several parents gave impassioned speeches about how Black boys at the school were being bullied and harassed by their peers without evidence they had done anything wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One parent, whom KQED is not naming to protect his son’s safety, pleaded for people to take these concerns seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921854\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg\" alt=\"A girl sits on a park bench.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/007_KQED_OaklandSchoolfortheArtsStudents_12022021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland School of the Arts senior Aisling Baus in downtown Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Whenever someone speaks about Black boys being called rapists online and in school, in front of teachers and walking the hallways, no one talks about the mental anguish that they will go through the rest of our lives,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parent declined to be interviewed for this story, but sent KQED a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is hard to believe that this kind of racial violence and discrimination would occur in 2022 in downtown Oakland at a school that was founded to serve students of color,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other parents of boys accused also declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the meeting, McCall and other members of the Student Safety Committee gave a presentation to explain their perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Staff has been focusing on the race of the accused instead of the race of the victims, who have all been women of color,” McCall said. “You can protect us, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the meeting Oz said, “I feel bad. I feel stupid in this moment for not predicting the gravity of that situation more accurately. For that I want to take responsibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oz addressed a parent who asked how to choose which side to support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The side is to support our students,” he said. “We’re a school. We support all of our 796 students. That’s what we do here. Sometimes students are going to make mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes are going to be huge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Investigators: Most claims ‘not backed by evidence, unfounded’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Soon after the walkout, the school announced it had hired an outside firm to investigate allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly seven months after the walkout, school leadership sent an email to the campus community that said most allegations made after the walkout were either “not backed by evidence, unfounded, or in some instances a result of mistaken identity or assumed guilt by association.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We support all of our 796 students … Sometimes students are going to make mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes are going to be huge.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Mike Oz, executive director, Oakland School for the Arts","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It’s unclear, however, which allegations or how many were reported to the school and investigated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The email went on to say, “We still have members of our community, specifically the falsely accused African American boys and their families, hurting, and this must be addressed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Levenson, an advisor for BHS Stop Harassing, a Berkeley High School student group, had volunteered to assist OSA after the walkout. She called the school’s statement brave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I say that through the lens of someone who has sat with so many survivors of sexual harm,” she said. “You do not get to destroy someone’s life because you’re mad or because you had a bad experience or you experienced assaults. That’s not how this works.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student Safety Committee member Tai-Ge Min said OSA’s focus on false allegations missed the bigger picture, and left survivors who still needed support out of the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Min said some classmates did not want to file complaints about abuse because they did not trust the school to support them, or were worried the administration would notify police. But because few classmates wanted to make formal allegations, Min said people accused victims of making up elaborate stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Justice has never really come to anyone at OSA,” Min said. “But those girls, however you define justice, they never got any of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leah Kimble-Price with Bay Area Women Against Rape worries about the long-term impact of OSA’s communications about the walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11921915\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/009_KQED_OSAJustineAda_06272022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11921915\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/009_KQED_OSAJustineAda_06272022.jpg\" alt=\"Two girls sit on the ground in front of a large building.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/009_KQED_OSAJustineAda_06272022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/009_KQED_OSAJustineAda_06272022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/009_KQED_OSAJustineAda_06272022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/009_KQED_OSAJustineAda_06272022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/009_KQED_OSAJustineAda_06272022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adaleyd DeLeon (left) and Justine Courtenay-Huang, co-founders of the Student Safety Committee at Oakland School for the Arts. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want people to be describing or mischaracterizing something that’s not happening. But for a lot of young people, it is happening,” she said. “This communication, the subtext here is that you may not be believed, and that is devastating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the concerns that led to the walkout continue. Before the school year ended, an anonymous user shared a graphic and offensive post on Instagram that said the girls involved in the walkout weren’t raped or “worthy of getting raped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school did not respond to a question about the post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCall, Min and De Angelis Nelson graduated in the spring, but Kanner-Gomes plans to bring administrators carefully crafted ideas on where the school can improve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Here’s what we think you can do. We’re here to work on this with you. Can you please just really listen?’’’ she said. “If we do that, it’s a lot harder to ignore us.”\u003cbr>\n\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>\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/11921799/students-shared-allegations-of-sexual-misconduct-at-oakland-school-for-the-arts-then-chaos-broke-out","authors":["11635"],"categories":["news_29992","news_8"],"tags":["news_20013","news_22464","news_2525","news_2838","news_22646"],"featImg":"news_11921806","label":"news"},"news_11921441":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11921441","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11921441","score":null,"sort":[1659614432000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"new-batch-of-csu-records-shows-professors-disciplined-for-sexual-harassment","title":"New Batch of CSU Records Shows Professors Disciplined for Sexual Harassment","publishDate":1659614432,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Fifty-four faculty members, coaches and other non-management employees at 12 California State University campuses were found to have committed violations of sexual misconduct and discrimination policies in cases resolved between 2017 and 2021, some resulting in firings and resignations, new information released by the university system shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The violations included unwanted sexual advances, including requests for sex, unwanted touching and kissing, and discrimination based on gender and race, according to the records. The case summaries were released in the wake of recent controversies over how the 23-campus system, the nation’s largest four-year public university, has handled sexual harassment complaints and disciplined employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The records reveal cases involving 54 employees, six of whom committed two or more offenses. They include 38 people with academic job titles, such as professor or assistant professor, and almost all of them involve complaints by students. Cases from another five CSU campuses will be released later this month. The remaining six campuses had no records of such misconduct, a university official said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' citation='Nancy Hogshead-Makar Champion Women: Advocacy for Girls and Women in Sports']'I’m just so impressed with this current generation that is speaking out. I just turned 60 in April. In my lifetime, the difference between women stepping out to speak on peer and professional sexual harassment is just night and day.'[/pullquote]EdSource originally filed a public records request for all case files in May, but agreed to receive the summary information after university officials said it could take up to a year to review and redact information identifying victims in the voluminous files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In at least one case, a professor found to have committed violations of the university’s policies prohibiting sexual and gender harassment and sexual misconduct, resigned from one CSU campus only to later land a teaching job at another. Another professor resigned after \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22124703-sf-summary-report-for-edsource-non-mgmt?responsive=1&title=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco State University\u003c/a> decided to fire him after it found he had “an intimate relationship with two students during a time when he had significant academic authority over both.” That person now teaches at a university in South Carolina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The remaining CSU campuses that released summary information on sexual harassment cases are listed here with links to the cases:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22124695-cpp-summary-report-for-edsource-non-mgmt?responsive=1&title=1\">Cal Poly Pomona\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22124698-fullerton-summary-report-for-edsource-non-mgmt?responsive=1&title=1\">Cal State Fullerton\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22124699-la-summary-report-for-edsource-non-mgmt?responsive=1&title=1\">Cal State Los Angeles\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22124700-sac-summary-report-for-edsource-non-mgmt?responsive=1&title=1\">Sacramento State\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22124697-fresno-summary-report-for-edsource-non-mgmt?responsive=1&title=1\">Fresno State\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22124701-san-marcos-summary-report-for-edsource-non-mgmt?responsive=1&title=1\">CSU San Marcos\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22124702-sd-summary-report-for-edsource-non-mgmt?responsive=1&title=1\">San Diego State\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22124704-ssu-summary-report-for-edsource-non-mgmt?responsive=1&title=1\">Stanislaus State\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22124705-stanislaus-summary-report-for-edsource-non-mgmt?responsive=1&title=1\">Sonoma State\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Note: CSU Channel Islands, CSU Dominguez Hills, CSU Northridge, CSU San Bernardino, and San Jose State are expected to release records later this month. CSU Bakersfield, Cal Poly Humboldt, CSU Long Beach, CSU Maritime, CSU Monterey Bay, and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo claim to have no records of cases in which employees were disciplined for sexual misconduct or discrimination between 2017 and this year.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>For 30 of the employees, the misconduct investigations led to the end of their CSU careers at the campus where the misconduct occurred. Many resigned during the investigations, while others were fired, not reappointed to teaching positions or entered retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cases resulted in suspensions for weeks and sometimes semesters, letters of reprimand and counseling for the offending employee, the summaries show. The investigations themselves can take years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At CSU system headquarters, a spokesman for the Chancellor’s Office defended the review and disciplinary process. “While the circumstances of each instance outlined in the summaries can vary significantly, after a finding of misconduct or policy violation was substantiated, the respective campuses worked to resolve the issues by taking appropriate action and following necessary procedures,” the spokesman, Michael Uhlenkamp, wrote in a statement Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new documents did not include any possible court decisions after the CSU actions if the employee filed an appeal. “Faculty and staff are represented by unions and have various additional rights to their employment, including the right to appeal any discipline for review and decision by an outside agency,” Uhlenkamp added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='news_11907261,news_11908220,news_11920106']\u003c/span>The summaries were released nearly six months after Chancellor \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/castro-to-receive-400000-salary-for-one-year-following-resignation-as-csu-chancellor/668438\">Joseph I. Castro resigned\u003c/a> in the wake of a revelation that Castro failed to aggressively discipline an underling and personal friend, Frank Lamas, when Castro was president of Fresno State in 2020. Castro agreed to pay Lamas $20,000 in Fresno State funds and write him a letter of recommendation for other jobs in exchange for Lamas resigning after an investigation found he sexually harassed an employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students protested and faculty called for Castro’s removal when the deal became public. CSU trustees ordered an independent investigation of sexual harassment across the massive system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, CSU released similar summaries of management employees who committed sexual misconduct, including viewing pornography on university computers and managers who sexually harassed people on their staffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newly released summaries of non-management cases show students were often victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A professor at \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22124694-chico-summary-report-for-edsource-non-mgmt?responsive=1&title=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chico State \u003c/a>resigned before he could be disciplined while facing charges of gender harassment of a student and having what was called a “prohibited consensual relationship” with a student, according to the summaries. The professor, Michael Regan, was then hired to teach in the kinesiology and sociology departments at \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22124696-eb-summary-report-for-edsource-non-mgmt?responsive=1&title=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cal State East Bay\u003c/a> in Hayward where he remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Cal State East Bay said the school was “looking into” Regan’s hiring. At Chico State, a spokesman told EdSource by email it could not be immediately determined if the East Bay school requested any information on Regan’s tenure at Chico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, Regan told EdSource, “I was open about pursuing a consensual relationship and decided to resign at the conclusion of the semester and not to return for my final visiting semester due to policy on conflict of interest on relationships.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another case, a \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22124703-sf-summary-report-for-edsource-non-mgmt?responsive=1&title=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco State\u003c/a> business professor, Oscar Stewart, “engaged in consensual sexual relationships with students when he had significant academic authority over both,” according to summary information that was drawn from a misconduct investigation into his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sustained allegations were not based on formal complaint against (Stewart) but the university investigated after learning of the allegations,” the summary states. It does not say how the university learned of the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university officials decided to fire Stewart, but then allowed him to resign, the records show. He is now a professor at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email on Monday, Stewart said that the university released “false information” about him. “I resigned so as not to deal with a university that never supported me throughout the process of retaliation by a group of conservative students who coordinated to retaliate against my anti-racist pedagogy.” A spokesperson for San Francisco State didn’t respond to an email sent late Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]An expert in college sexual harassment cases said it is clear that professors should know better than to pursue relationships with their students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just having a relationship is a violation of the school’s duty of care and a violation of the truth, and the authority a professor has over a student,” said Nancy Hogshead-Makar, an attorney and advocate for Champion Women: Advocacy for Girls and Women in Sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One out of every four women in college have been sexually harassed or assaulted, she said, adding that the CSU complaints show that the victims are willing to speak up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hogshead-Makar said it can be difficult to prepare young people, especially women, for what to do when they encounter these incidents. Unfortunately, these incidents can really impact their lives, she said, adding that some choose to change their majors or their professions as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just so impressed with this current generation that is speaking out,” she said. “I just turned 60 in April. In my lifetime, the difference between women stepping out to speak on peer and professional sexual harassment is just night and day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/new-batch-of-csu-records-show-professors-disciplined-for-sexual-harassment/676217\">\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This story was originally published in EdSource.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The California State University system records show the violations included requests for sex and unwanted sexual advances, as well as discrimination based on gender and race. 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Smith and Daniel J. Willis","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11921441/new-batch-of-csu-records-shows-professors-disciplined-for-sexual-harassment","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Fifty-four faculty members, coaches and other non-management employees at 12 California State University campuses were found to have committed violations of sexual misconduct and discrimination policies in cases resolved between 2017 and 2021, some resulting in firings and resignations, new information released by the university system shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The violations included unwanted sexual advances, including requests for sex, unwanted touching and kissing, and discrimination based on gender and race, according to the records. The case summaries were released in the wake of recent controversies over how the 23-campus system, the nation’s largest four-year public university, has handled sexual harassment complaints and disciplined employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The records reveal cases involving 54 employees, six of whom committed two or more offenses. They include 38 people with academic job titles, such as professor or assistant professor, and almost all of them involve complaints by students. Cases from another five CSU campuses will be released later this month. The remaining six campuses had no records of such misconduct, a university official said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I’m just so impressed with this current generation that is speaking out. I just turned 60 in April. In my lifetime, the difference between women stepping out to speak on peer and professional sexual harassment is just night and day.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"small","citation":"Nancy Hogshead-Makar Champion Women: Advocacy for Girls and Women in Sports","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>EdSource originally filed a public records request for all case files in May, but agreed to receive the summary information after university officials said it could take up to a year to review and redact information identifying victims in the voluminous files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In at least one case, a professor found to have committed violations of the university’s policies prohibiting sexual and gender harassment and sexual misconduct, resigned from one CSU campus only to later land a teaching job at another. Another professor resigned after \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22124703-sf-summary-report-for-edsource-non-mgmt?responsive=1&title=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco State University\u003c/a> decided to fire him after it found he had “an intimate relationship with two students during a time when he had significant academic authority over both.” That person now teaches at a university in South Carolina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The remaining CSU campuses that released summary information on sexual harassment cases are listed here with links to the cases:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22124695-cpp-summary-report-for-edsource-non-mgmt?responsive=1&title=1\">Cal Poly Pomona\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22124698-fullerton-summary-report-for-edsource-non-mgmt?responsive=1&title=1\">Cal State Fullerton\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22124699-la-summary-report-for-edsource-non-mgmt?responsive=1&title=1\">Cal State Los Angeles\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22124700-sac-summary-report-for-edsource-non-mgmt?responsive=1&title=1\">Sacramento State\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22124697-fresno-summary-report-for-edsource-non-mgmt?responsive=1&title=1\">Fresno State\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22124701-san-marcos-summary-report-for-edsource-non-mgmt?responsive=1&title=1\">CSU San Marcos\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22124702-sd-summary-report-for-edsource-non-mgmt?responsive=1&title=1\">San Diego State\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22124704-ssu-summary-report-for-edsource-non-mgmt?responsive=1&title=1\">Stanislaus State\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22124705-stanislaus-summary-report-for-edsource-non-mgmt?responsive=1&title=1\">Sonoma State\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Note: CSU Channel Islands, CSU Dominguez Hills, CSU Northridge, CSU San Bernardino, and San Jose State are expected to release records later this month. CSU Bakersfield, Cal Poly Humboldt, CSU Long Beach, CSU Maritime, CSU Monterey Bay, and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo claim to have no records of cases in which employees were disciplined for sexual misconduct or discrimination between 2017 and this year.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>For 30 of the employees, the misconduct investigations led to the end of their CSU careers at the campus where the misconduct occurred. Many resigned during the investigations, while others were fired, not reappointed to teaching positions or entered retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cases resulted in suspensions for weeks and sometimes semesters, letters of reprimand and counseling for the offending employee, the summaries show. The investigations themselves can take years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At CSU system headquarters, a spokesman for the Chancellor’s Office defended the review and disciplinary process. “While the circumstances of each instance outlined in the summaries can vary significantly, after a finding of misconduct or policy violation was substantiated, the respective campuses worked to resolve the issues by taking appropriate action and following necessary procedures,” the spokesman, Michael Uhlenkamp, wrote in a statement Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new documents did not include any possible court decisions after the CSU actions if the employee filed an appeal. “Faculty and staff are represented by unions and have various additional rights to their employment, including the right to appeal any discipline for review and decision by an outside agency,” Uhlenkamp added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11907261,news_11908220,news_11920106","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>The summaries were released nearly six months after Chancellor \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/castro-to-receive-400000-salary-for-one-year-following-resignation-as-csu-chancellor/668438\">Joseph I. Castro resigned\u003c/a> in the wake of a revelation that Castro failed to aggressively discipline an underling and personal friend, Frank Lamas, when Castro was president of Fresno State in 2020. Castro agreed to pay Lamas $20,000 in Fresno State funds and write him a letter of recommendation for other jobs in exchange for Lamas resigning after an investigation found he sexually harassed an employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students protested and faculty called for Castro’s removal when the deal became public. CSU trustees ordered an independent investigation of sexual harassment across the massive system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, CSU released similar summaries of management employees who committed sexual misconduct, including viewing pornography on university computers and managers who sexually harassed people on their staffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newly released summaries of non-management cases show students were often victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A professor at \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22124694-chico-summary-report-for-edsource-non-mgmt?responsive=1&title=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chico State \u003c/a>resigned before he could be disciplined while facing charges of gender harassment of a student and having what was called a “prohibited consensual relationship” with a student, according to the summaries. The professor, Michael Regan, was then hired to teach in the kinesiology and sociology departments at \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22124696-eb-summary-report-for-edsource-non-mgmt?responsive=1&title=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cal State East Bay\u003c/a> in Hayward where he remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Cal State East Bay said the school was “looking into” Regan’s hiring. At Chico State, a spokesman told EdSource by email it could not be immediately determined if the East Bay school requested any information on Regan’s tenure at Chico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, Regan told EdSource, “I was open about pursuing a consensual relationship and decided to resign at the conclusion of the semester and not to return for my final visiting semester due to policy on conflict of interest on relationships.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another case, a \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22124703-sf-summary-report-for-edsource-non-mgmt?responsive=1&title=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco State\u003c/a> business professor, Oscar Stewart, “engaged in consensual sexual relationships with students when he had significant academic authority over both,” according to summary information that was drawn from a misconduct investigation into his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sustained allegations were not based on formal complaint against (Stewart) but the university investigated after learning of the allegations,” the summary states. It does not say how the university learned of the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university officials decided to fire Stewart, but then allowed him to resign, the records show. He is now a professor at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email on Monday, Stewart said that the university released “false information” about him. “I resigned so as not to deal with a university that never supported me throughout the process of retaliation by a group of conservative students who coordinated to retaliate against my anti-racist pedagogy.” A spokesperson for San Francisco State didn’t respond to an email sent late Monday.\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>An expert in college sexual harassment cases said it is clear that professors should know better than to pursue relationships with their students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just having a relationship is a violation of the school’s duty of care and a violation of the truth, and the authority a professor has over a student,” said Nancy Hogshead-Makar, an attorney and advocate for Champion Women: Advocacy for Girls and Women in Sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One out of every four women in college have been sexually harassed or assaulted, she said, adding that the CSU complaints show that the victims are willing to speak up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hogshead-Makar said it can be difficult to prepare young people, especially women, for what to do when they encounter these incidents. Unfortunately, these incidents can really impact their lives, she said, adding that some choose to change their majors or their professions as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just so impressed with this current generation that is speaking out,” she said. “I just turned 60 in April. In my lifetime, the difference between women stepping out to speak on peer and professional sexual harassment is just night and day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/new-batch-of-csu-records-show-professors-disciplined-for-sexual-harassment/676217\">\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This story was originally published in EdSource.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\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/11921441/new-batch-of-csu-records-shows-professors-disciplined-for-sexual-harassment","authors":["byline_news_11921441"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_221","news_18738","news_20228","news_2838","news_20618"],"featImg":"news_11921484","label":"source_news_11921441"},"news_11908220":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11908220","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11908220","score":null,"sort":[1647457063000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"usf-president-says-school-didnt-tolerate-coaches-alleged-sexual-misconduct-players-attorney-says-thats-exactly-what-it-did","title":"USF President Says School Didn't Tolerate Coaches' Alleged Sexual Misconduct. Players' Attorney Says That's Exactly What It Did","publishDate":1647457063,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The University of San Francisco's highly ranked men's basketball team will play in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.com/march-madness-live/bracket\">NCAA \"March Madness\u003c/a>\" playoffs this month for the first time since 1998. But campus jubilation at the Dons' success on the court is tempered this week by an emerging scandal involving the men's baseball team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, associate baseball coach Troy Nakamura was fired after complaints of wildly inappropriate and sexually graphic language and behavior. Head coach Nino Giarratano was initially reprimanded but allowed to remain. But he, too, was fired on Sunday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/college/article/USF-baseball-coach-fired-after-ex-players-16998516.php\">following a lawsuit filed against Nakamura, Giarratano, USF and the NCAA\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.lieffcabraser.com/pdf/USF-NCAA-Complaint-20220311-stamped.pdf\">the 113-page class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> filed on Friday in a federal court in San Francisco, three former baseball players allege that USF knew about the coaches' alleged problematic behavior, and that USF and the NCAA failed to protect the health and safety of student athletes who they say were exposed to an \"intolerable sexualized environment\" that was allowed to continue under Giarratano, who has been at USF for over 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the complaint, the coaches \"created a culture where, in the light of the day, it was 'normal' to see Coach [Nakamura] naked on the field or in a window, swinging his penis in a helicopter fashion while the entire team — and Coach [Giarratano] — watched.\" According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/college/article/Intolerable-sexualized-environment-Ex-USF-16994972.php\">reporting from The San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, Nakamura was seen mingling with coaches at a practice last week, nearly two months after he was fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Julia Morales, USF junior\"]'I think the most surprising thing to us was that it took so long for something to happen. It took, what ... months for someone to actually be fired like the head coach and not just be reprimanded?'[/pullquote]In an interview with KQED, USF President Rev. Paul Fitzgerald said at this point the school is focused on helping players cope with the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our first concern right now is for the current members of the team,\" Fitzgerald said. \"So we're prioritizing their access to mental health counseling and speaking directly to their parents. Their parents are concerned about their sons and their overall well-being, as are we.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fitzgerald dismissed the notion that Giarratano's firing was prompted by the filing of the class-action lawsuit, and instead pinned it on letting Nakamura attend practice last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The class-action lawsuit was not the reason why we terminated the head coach,\" Fitzgerald said. \"We terminated the head coach because he allowed the former assistant coach [Nakamura] back onto the field. And our former assistant coach had no business being on the field with our athletes, with our coaches.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Elizabeth Fegan, one of the attorneys representing the three former baseball players, isn't buying that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I find it particularly galling that President Fitzgerald is trying to overlook the larger issues of abuse of student-athletes on his watch in recasting why he fired Coach Giarratano,\" she said in a statement to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is nothing more than debate intended to shirk responsibility – I would think he should be more concerned about being transparent about what happened to allow the coaches’ abhorrent behavior to grow and fester within the baseball program.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USF student Julia Morales, a junior biology major who participates on the track team, told KQED she and her fellow students wonder why it took the school so long to act after receiving complaints about the atmosphere around the baseball team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the most surprising thing to us was that it took so long for something to happen, or for any information to be put out there,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And now that an article has been published and people are finding out that all of this has happened,\" Morales said, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/college/article/Intolerable-sexualized-environment-Ex-USF-16994972.php\">referencing the Chronicle's reporting\u003c/a>, \"and it took, what ... months later for someone to actually be fired like the head coach and not just be reprimanded? It was concerning that it took this much time and effort to make something happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When told of Morales's concerns, Fitzgerald said, \"I'm proud of that student for her moral outrage at the mistreatment of any student by a coach at USF or at any school. So I think her heart and her mind are in exactly the right place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908332\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908332\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/4.21.16-Paul-Fitzgerald-0856-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"profile of Jesuit reverend with cityscape in background\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/4.21.16-Paul-Fitzgerald-0856-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/4.21.16-Paul-Fitzgerald-0856-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/4.21.16-Paul-Fitzgerald-0856-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/4.21.16-Paul-Fitzgerald-0856-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/4.21.16-Paul-Fitzgerald-0856-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/4.21.16-Paul-Fitzgerald-0856-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/4.21.16-Paul-Fitzgerald-0856-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">USF President Rev. Paul Fitzgerald \u003ccite>(Courtesy USF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the lawsuit, the mother of one of the baseball players sent an email to, and left numerous voicemails for, USF's athletic director in May 2021, saying \"that she was concerned 'with the culture of the baseball program,' 'the constant bullying, harassment, and intimidation' of her son, and the 'sexual misconduct by coach [Nakamura].'\" Those phone calls and emails, she said, were never returned, and the player believed the athletic director simply shared his mother's complaint with the coaches, \"because the abuse escalated and continued throughout the summer of 2021,\" the lawsuit says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fitzgerald, however, denied that the school tried to downplay or tolerate the alleged behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not going to sweep things under the rug once any bad behavior becomes known,\" Fitzgerald said. \"You know, we act on it. We act decisively ... to maintain and improve the culture of every one of our sports programs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that's what the school did, counters attorney Fegan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is apparent to anyone who looked at this issue that, for whatever reason, the school ignored the pleas of parents about Coach Giarratano’s program. Willful ignorance will not carry much weight when it comes to trial,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='sexual-misconduct']Asked whether he was reflecting on whether USF might have handled allegations against the baseball coaches better, Fitzgerald said, \"We always want to learn from unfortunate incidences. You know, our primary task is prevention. So a lot of trainings, a lot of education. We recently hired a second \u003ca href=\"https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/tix_dis.html\">Title IX\u003c/a> officer, and her primary responsibility is training within the athletic department. And we want all of our student athletes to know that they're in a safe environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fitzgerald said he wants students to feel empowered to report troubling or inappropriate behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And we have multiple venues, multiple avenues, including [an] anonymous whistleblower hotline for anyone to make a complaint. And that's the most important thing that anyone can do is to raise a concern. And then we'll be very consequent in our investigation and in a follow-up,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the first time USF sports have been enveloped in sex-related allegations. As \u003ca href=\"https://www.si.com/college/2021/09/30/usf-mens-soccer-sexual-assault-and-harassment-reckoning-daily-cover\">Sports Illustrated reported\u003c/a> in a comprehensive article just five months ago, several players on the USF men's soccer team were accused of sexual misconduct, including rape of a female student. A public outcry prompted USF to investigate the allegations, but critics said the school tolerated the behavior for too long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's David Marks contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In an interview with KQED, Rev. Paul Fitzgerald denied that USF tried to downplay behavior a class-action lawsuit alleges resulted in an 'intolerable sexualized environment' on the men's baseball team. The players' attorney called that willful ignorance.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1647464008,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1159},"headData":{"title":"USF President Says School Didn't Tolerate Coaches' Alleged Sexual Misconduct. Players' Attorney Says That's Exactly What It Did | KQED","description":"In an interview with KQED, Rev. Paul Fitzgerald denied that USF tried to downplay behavior a class-action lawsuit alleges resulted in an 'intolerable sexualized environment' on the men's baseball team. The players' attorney called that willful ignorance.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"USF President Says School Didn't Tolerate Coaches' Alleged Sexual Misconduct. 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Players' Attorney Says That's Exactly What It Did","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11908220/usf-president-says-school-didnt-tolerate-coaches-alleged-sexual-misconduct-players-attorney-says-thats-exactly-what-it-did","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The University of San Francisco's highly ranked men's basketball team will play in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncaa.com/march-madness-live/bracket\">NCAA \"March Madness\u003c/a>\" playoffs this month for the first time since 1998. But campus jubilation at the Dons' success on the court is tempered this week by an emerging scandal involving the men's baseball team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, associate baseball coach Troy Nakamura was fired after complaints of wildly inappropriate and sexually graphic language and behavior. Head coach Nino Giarratano was initially reprimanded but allowed to remain. But he, too, was fired on Sunday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/college/article/USF-baseball-coach-fired-after-ex-players-16998516.php\">following a lawsuit filed against Nakamura, Giarratano, USF and the NCAA\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.lieffcabraser.com/pdf/USF-NCAA-Complaint-20220311-stamped.pdf\">the 113-page class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> filed on Friday in a federal court in San Francisco, three former baseball players allege that USF knew about the coaches' alleged problematic behavior, and that USF and the NCAA failed to protect the health and safety of student athletes who they say were exposed to an \"intolerable sexualized environment\" that was allowed to continue under Giarratano, who has been at USF for over 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the complaint, the coaches \"created a culture where, in the light of the day, it was 'normal' to see Coach [Nakamura] naked on the field or in a window, swinging his penis in a helicopter fashion while the entire team — and Coach [Giarratano] — watched.\" According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/college/article/Intolerable-sexualized-environment-Ex-USF-16994972.php\">reporting from The San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, Nakamura was seen mingling with coaches at a practice last week, nearly two months after he was fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I think the most surprising thing to us was that it took so long for something to happen. It took, what ... months for someone to actually be fired like the head coach and not just be reprimanded?'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Julia Morales, USF junior","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, USF President Rev. Paul Fitzgerald said at this point the school is focused on helping players cope with the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our first concern right now is for the current members of the team,\" Fitzgerald said. \"So we're prioritizing their access to mental health counseling and speaking directly to their parents. Their parents are concerned about their sons and their overall well-being, as are we.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fitzgerald dismissed the notion that Giarratano's firing was prompted by the filing of the class-action lawsuit, and instead pinned it on letting Nakamura attend practice last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The class-action lawsuit was not the reason why we terminated the head coach,\" Fitzgerald said. \"We terminated the head coach because he allowed the former assistant coach [Nakamura] back onto the field. And our former assistant coach had no business being on the field with our athletes, with our coaches.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Elizabeth Fegan, one of the attorneys representing the three former baseball players, isn't buying that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I find it particularly galling that President Fitzgerald is trying to overlook the larger issues of abuse of student-athletes on his watch in recasting why he fired Coach Giarratano,\" she said in a statement to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is nothing more than debate intended to shirk responsibility – I would think he should be more concerned about being transparent about what happened to allow the coaches’ abhorrent behavior to grow and fester within the baseball program.\"\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>USF student Julia Morales, a junior biology major who participates on the track team, told KQED she and her fellow students wonder why it took the school so long to act after receiving complaints about the atmosphere around the baseball team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the most surprising thing to us was that it took so long for something to happen, or for any information to be put out there,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And now that an article has been published and people are finding out that all of this has happened,\" Morales said, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/college/article/Intolerable-sexualized-environment-Ex-USF-16994972.php\">referencing the Chronicle's reporting\u003c/a>, \"and it took, what ... months later for someone to actually be fired like the head coach and not just be reprimanded? It was concerning that it took this much time and effort to make something happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When told of Morales's concerns, Fitzgerald said, \"I'm proud of that student for her moral outrage at the mistreatment of any student by a coach at USF or at any school. So I think her heart and her mind are in exactly the right place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908332\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908332\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/4.21.16-Paul-Fitzgerald-0856-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"profile of Jesuit reverend with cityscape in background\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/4.21.16-Paul-Fitzgerald-0856-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/4.21.16-Paul-Fitzgerald-0856-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/4.21.16-Paul-Fitzgerald-0856-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/4.21.16-Paul-Fitzgerald-0856-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/4.21.16-Paul-Fitzgerald-0856-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/4.21.16-Paul-Fitzgerald-0856-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/4.21.16-Paul-Fitzgerald-0856-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">USF President Rev. Paul Fitzgerald \u003ccite>(Courtesy USF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the lawsuit, the mother of one of the baseball players sent an email to, and left numerous voicemails for, USF's athletic director in May 2021, saying \"that she was concerned 'with the culture of the baseball program,' 'the constant bullying, harassment, and intimidation' of her son, and the 'sexual misconduct by coach [Nakamura].'\" Those phone calls and emails, she said, were never returned, and the player believed the athletic director simply shared his mother's complaint with the coaches, \"because the abuse escalated and continued throughout the summer of 2021,\" the lawsuit says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fitzgerald, however, denied that the school tried to downplay or tolerate the alleged behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not going to sweep things under the rug once any bad behavior becomes known,\" Fitzgerald said. \"You know, we act on it. We act decisively ... to maintain and improve the culture of every one of our sports programs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that's what the school did, counters attorney Fegan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is apparent to anyone who looked at this issue that, for whatever reason, the school ignored the pleas of parents about Coach Giarratano’s program. Willful ignorance will not carry much weight when it comes to trial,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"sexual-misconduct"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Asked whether he was reflecting on whether USF might have handled allegations against the baseball coaches better, Fitzgerald said, \"We always want to learn from unfortunate incidences. You know, our primary task is prevention. So a lot of trainings, a lot of education. We recently hired a second \u003ca href=\"https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/tix_dis.html\">Title IX\u003c/a> officer, and her primary responsibility is training within the athletic department. And we want all of our student athletes to know that they're in a safe environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fitzgerald said he wants students to feel empowered to report troubling or inappropriate behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And we have multiple venues, multiple avenues, including [an] anonymous whistleblower hotline for anyone to make a complaint. And that's the most important thing that anyone can do is to raise a concern. And then we'll be very consequent in our investigation and in a follow-up,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the first time USF sports have been enveloped in sex-related allegations. As \u003ca href=\"https://www.si.com/college/2021/09/30/usf-mens-soccer-sexual-assault-and-harassment-reckoning-daily-cover\">Sports Illustrated reported\u003c/a> in a comprehensive article just five months ago, several players on the USF men's soccer team were accused of sexual misconduct, including rape of a female student. 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