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Harassment in Colorado government goes beyond statehouse

Nearly three of every thousand Colorado state government agency workers have filed a sexual harassment claim at work in the past five years, a Rocky Mountain PBS investigation found.

Sexual harassment allegations rocked the General Assembly this year and led it to oust one of its own members, Rep. Steve Lebsock, for the first time since 1915. But workplace sexual harassment spreads far beyond the statehouse, into the 17 principal agencies that employ more than 24,000 Coloradans.

An RMPBS analysis of complaints compiled by the Colorado Department of Personnel and Administration shows several state agencies with multiple harassment complaints filed in the past five years. The most came from the Colorado Department of Transportation, which had double the rate of complaints of any other state agency. CDOT, with nearly 3,000 employees, received 21 of the 62 complaints handled by the state between 2013 and the end of 2017. All but one involved a male accused of harassing a female.

Read more at Rocky Mountain PBS.

 
David Zalubowski
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