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The judge said he's concerned about “a lax culture” of tolerating sexual harassment across state government — and that employees with multiple unsubstantiated complaints against them could escape scrutiny if the court allowed them anonymity.
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Since 2012, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services has investigated more than 40 claims of sexual harassment. All were deemed unsubstantiated.
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Employees from the Department of Juvenile Justice and Department of Corrections are only 15 percent of the state government workforce, but they account…
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Though corrections and juvenile justice employees make up less than 15 percent of state employees, they account for nearly half of all sexual harassment complaints filed in the last six years.
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The Kentucky Labor Cabinet has filed suit against the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting to prevent releasing details about employees accused of sexual harassment -- the second state agency to sue KyCIR in the last month.
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The Kentucky Labor Cabinet refused to release the name of an employee who was accused in 2016, saying that the employee’s privacy outweighed the public interest.
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Employees have lodged 33 formal complaints of sexual harassment or assault since 2012. Most complaints ranged from inappropriate verbal comments and text messages to unwanted touching. (This story includes a description of sexual assault.)
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Every public agency has to follow the same state laws about sharing records with the public. But every public agency does not interpret these laws the same way when it comes to sharing complaints of sexual harassment.
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When a state employee alleges sexual harassment, the depth of investigations, the severity of punishment, and even what agencies call the behavior depends on where the employee works.