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Twice more, she says, he offered to pass her car in exchange for a date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At that point I just shut down completely, and just kind of gave him this look like, ‘I'm so uncomfortable,’” she says. “And then he got more awkward and finally just kind of stepped out of my car, handed me paperwork and said I was good to go. And then I drove off.”[aside postID=\"news_11817288,news_11786770,news_11758000\" label=\"California's Secret Police Files\" heroLink=\"https://www.kqed.org/policerecords\" target=\"_blank\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole, who spoke on condition that her full name not be published to respect her privacy, was one of 21 women McGrew propositioned and harassed during VIN verification appointments, according to records from a 2016 internal investigation obtained by KQED and the California Reporting Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four women said McGrew offered to pass their vehicles if they would go on a date or to a nearby motel with him. Two said McGrew sent them text messages soliciting sex after he took down their phone numbers during a VIN appointment. Fifteen described McGrew making comments that ranged from proposing sex to asking intrusive personal questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGrew resigned in 2017 when the California Highway Patrol notified him that it planned to fire him for a variety of misconduct, including improperly trying to foster relationships with members of the public, making inappropriate sexual comments and propositioning women for sex while on duty, the documents show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The records provide details about the type of sexual misconduct by law enforcement that remained secret for decades in California until a landmark transparency law required agencies last year to publicly disclose a variety of documents, including investigations of officers found to have committed sexual assault while on duty. The Right to Know Act has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/policerecords\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">exposed\u003c/a> repeated instances of abuse, ranging from correctional officers in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11786495/metoo-behind-bars-new-records-shed-light-on-sexual-abuse-inside-state-womens-prisons\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">prison\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11740176/former-sonoma-county-sheriffs-deputy-groped-inmate-avoided-criminal-charge\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">jail\u003c/a> who assaulted women under their guard to an officer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716343/police-records-law-burlingame-cop-fired-for-asking-woman-to-trade-sex-for-help-with-charges\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">fired for soliciting\u003c/a> sex from an arrestee and one \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11749447/who-do-you-call-for-help-when-your-abuser-is-a-cop\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">accused of beating and raping\u003c/a> his girlfriend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n McGrew's case, the CHP did not refer him to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office to decide if criminal charges were warranted. A CHP spokeswoman wrote in an email that “had there been sufficient evidence that a crime had occurred, it would have been investigated and potentially referred to the district attorney's office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's office declined to comment on the case. The California Association of Highway Patrolmen, which represented McGrew, also did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to reach McGrew for comment were unsuccessful. The CHP records show he admitted making the comments during VIN inspections but argued that termination was an excessive punishment after his 14 years of service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While I do not dispute that I made inexcusable comments to members of the public, the remarks were never mean spirited,\" he wrote in a letter to internal affairs.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Phil Stinson,\u003cbr>Bowling Green State University\"]‘This is an extraordinary example of how they (police) hide their dirty laundry and protect their own.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former U.S. Attorney for Northern California Joe Russoniello, who reviewed the internal affairs files, described McGrew's conduct as \"a wanton abuse of his badge\" and said he was shocked that the CHP did not refer McGrew to the DA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An agency needs to show that it's serious about rejecting this kind of behavior,” Russoniello says. “And the serious way to do that is a criminal referral.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an extraordinary example of how they (police) hide their dirty laundry and protect their own,” says Phil Stinson, criminal justice professor of Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He says the documents contain clear allegations that McGrew repeatedly solicited bribes in the form of sexual favors from women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stinson, who's studied police crime for 16 years, says officers like McGrew are often dismissed as “bad apples” and terminated, but that departments fail to investigate the systemic issues that allowed the misconduct in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a mass \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823616/police-violence-since-oscar-grant-has-anything-truly-changed\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">movement over police violence\u003c/a> continues across the country, Stinson says the prevalence of police sexual violence is an integral part of the issue. His research has found that behavior like McGrew’s is normalized in many U.S. police departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not every police officer, of course, is engaging in this kind of behavior,” Stinson says. “But I can tell you that most police officers across the country could tell you of a colleague who engages in this type of behavior.”[aside postID=\"news_11749447,news_11786770,news_11786495\" label=\"California's Secret Police Files\" heroLink=\"https://www.kqed.org/policerecords\" target=\"_blank\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of times the CHP has disciplined an officer for sexual misconduct in the past five years is still unknown. A coalition of news organizations including KQED requested all such records on Jan. 1, 2019, but the agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11758000/delaying-the-inevitable-many-police-agencies-withhold-records-in-new-era-of-transparency\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">stalled\u003c/a> for over a year before providing a single case file. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817288/kqed-sues-chp-over-failure-to-disclose-discipline-and-use-of-force-records\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">KQED filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> in May against the CHP to force disclosure. The internal investigation of former Officer McGrew was produced shortly thereafter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has also released its investigation into former CHP officer Timothy Larios, whose romantic relationship with a female confidential informant \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817288/kqed-sues-chp-over-failure-to-disclose-discipline-and-use-of-force-records\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">compromised\u003c/a> an interagency narcotics operation and endangered the woman. A third file details the agency’s probe into former officer John Frizzell who was fired in 2014 for fondling a woman’s breasts during a traffic stop and asking another female motorist to lift up her shirt. Like McGrew, neither of these officers faced criminal charges, according to the documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]R[/dropcap]ecords show the CHP began investigating McGrew after a woman made a complaint in 2016. Like Nicole, this woman made an appointment with McGrew to get her VIN verified so she could get her car registered with the DMV. She had her son with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGrew gave the kid a CHP sticker and looked at the vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGrew then told the woman he would pass her car if she went to a nearby motel with him, according to the documents. The woman, who spoke Spanish, didn’t immediately understand what McGrew was asking. So, McGrew repeated the proposition twice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman went inside the office to complain about McGrew’s behavior. A sergeant asked her if she misunderstood McGrew due to the language barrier and if she’d been drinking or taking drugs. She said there was no misunderstanding and that she wasn’t under the influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She could not explain the expression on Officer McGrew's face, but she said he was smiling when he asked the question about getting a motel room,” the documents say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the internal investigation stemming from that incident the CHP sent three rounds of surveys to about 150 women between 18-40 years of age who’d made appointments with McGrew during his time as an inspection officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829157\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11829157\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/rearview2.jpg\" alt=\"The beautiful eyes of the young driver woman are reflected in the rearview mirror. Blurred road and landscape is in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/rearview2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/rearview2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/rearview2-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/rearview2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/rearview2-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'You don't look disabled from here,' CHP Officer Morgan McGrew told a woman with a disability parking permit. Later in that same appointment he told her, 'You're young, but not too young for me.' \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The CHP improperly redacted dates showing the length of the investigation and time span of McGrew’s abuse. But it is clear that the agency’s investigation did not include anything in the officer’s career before he was assigned to vehicle inspections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By limiting the scope of the investigation to those over the age of 18, investigators may well have missed more vulnerable victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What about the 16- or 17-year-old driver that may own a car that he had come into contact with?” Stinson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHP investigators found multiple women who confirmed that McGrew even made sexual comments to those who were with their partners or children, and he did target young women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One woman with a disability due to a back injury said that McGrew questioned her about parking her vehicle in a handicapped parking spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don't look disabled from here,\" McGrew said, according to the woman. Later in that same appointment he told her, “You're young, but not too young for me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another woman said she felt violated after her experience at the CHP office. According to the documents:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Officer McGrew asked her what she was going to do for him if he passed her car. She said she tried to laugh it off, but believed it was inappropriate. She said he then made comments about ‘handcuffing’ her and getting her in the ‘back seat of her car.’ [Victim’s name redacted] also stated he mentioned taking her to a motel at the end or up the street. She said he even mentioned it had been recently remodeled and that it was fairly clean.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>McGrew admitted to investigators that he had made inappropriate comments to women while on duty, but said he never intended to act on those comments. When asked why he made these propositions to women, McGrew replied: “Just to see if they’ll say yes,” according to interview transcripts in the investigation file.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGrew, however, did date at least one woman he harassed on the job, he told investigators, and he repeatedly texted another for a few months. Both said they cut off contact with him after his explicit messages made them uncomfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGrew solicited two other women for sex via text message after their appointments. Documents show that McGrew got rid of that untraceable prepaid cellphone before investigators could look at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You're dealing with a law enforcement officer who has a gun and a badge they’re a person in a position of authority,\" Stinson says. \"And it's very threatening for a woman to find themselves in that situation where the officer's suggesting that they engage in a sex act. It’s absolutely terrifying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828787\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11828787\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/McGrew-pic-1.jpg\" alt=\"The image shows text messages sent by a former CHP Officer to a woman whose vehicle he had just inspected. The officer texted, "So when should i come over to stay the night?" Response: "Who's this ?" Officer: "The person who just looked at ur car" Response: "How'd you get my number ?" Officer: "Sorry i will not text u again. My mistake"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1795\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/McGrew-pic-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/McGrew-pic-1-800x748.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/McGrew-pic-1-1020x954.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/McGrew-pic-1-160x150.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/McGrew-pic-1-1536x1436.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Text messages exchanged between former CHP Officer Morgan McGrew and a woman he'd met during a VIN inspection. \u003ccite>(Via California Highway Patrol)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officers like McGrew have immense power. A registered vehicle is often key to a person’s mobility, employment and family life. Without proper registration people can face fines, or even lose their car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And McGrew had access to all of these women’s home addresses and personal cellphone numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]M[/dropcap]any of the women told investigators they didn’t file complaints about McGrew because they were afraid of what he might do with the power of his office. Stinson has found that complaints about police sexual misconduct are often never filed because of this fear of retribution, which makes it difficult to ever fully see — and address — the scope of the problem. One woman reported being scared to come back to the CHP for her follow-up appointment because she would have to see McGrew again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole says she didn’t make a complaint due to what she called her “classic chick response.” First, she blamed herself for agreeing to meet a man alone at 7:30 in the morning, even if he was a police officer. Then she tried to rationalize his behavior; maybe he wasn’t serious or maybe he was just an awkward flirt? Months later she learned she wasn’t the only one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole says when she started getting follow-up calls asking her to fill out a survey about her experience, she ignored them. But the calls kept coming until she was getting two or three calls a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I finally stayed on the phone a little longer to be like, ‘Why are you guys bothering me so much? This is a little aggressive for a freaking survey!’” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigator on the phone spelled it out for her; other women had made complaints about McGrew. So Nicole told him what had happened to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After taking her statement, Nicole says the CHP never got back to her to let her know what happened with McGrew. She says she would also have expected the agency to make some kind of changes as a result of the investigation. They have not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No changes to CHP policy were necessary because the behavior was against policy then and is today,” a CHP spokeswoman wrote via email. “The employee's conduct was investigated and the employee was appropriately disciplined.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGrew argued it was excessive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A forty-five day leave without pay would have been ample punishment,\" he wrote in a letter to CHP internal affairs. \"A supervisor I had previously embarrassed had a stated mission to ‘make me pay.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russoniello says that by not prosecuting McGrew and not putting in place safeguards to prevent this type of abuse in future, the agency failed to take a strong position against sexual assault by its officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once you’ve gotten rid of the ‘bad apple’ you close the book,” he says. “We don’t have to worry about it anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11829433 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43990_iStock-943697000-qut-1020x750.jpg']In the three years since this happened, Nicole says she has thought about it a lot. Her father was a police officer and before this experience, Nicole says she felt really positively about police. She doesn’t anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the #MeToo movement started, Nicole says she and her female co-workers shared their experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was one of my stories, because it was one of those moments where I was just like, this could end very badly,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she would have liked the CHP to do more intensive screening of potential officers to weed out people like McGrew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He probably had some sort of history of creeping women the hell out,” Nicole says. “How does someone like that even get that far?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-11786993\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-160x155.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-160x155.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-800x777.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-1020x990.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1.png 1030w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>This story was produced by the \u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Reporting Project\u003c/a>, a coalition of 40 news organizations across the state. The project was formed to request and report on previously secret records of police misconduct and use of force in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former U.S. Attorney for Northern California Joe Russoniello, who reviewed the internal affairs files, described McGrew's conduct as \"a wanton abuse of his badge\" and said he was shocked that the CHP did not refer McGrew to the DA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An agency needs to show that it's serious about rejecting this kind of behavior,” Russoniello says. “And the serious way to do that is a criminal referral.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an extraordinary example of how they (police) hide their dirty laundry and protect their own,” says Phil Stinson, criminal justice professor of Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He says the documents contain clear allegations that McGrew repeatedly solicited bribes in the form of sexual favors from women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stinson, who's studied police crime for 16 years, says officers like McGrew are often dismissed as “bad apples” and terminated, but that departments fail to investigate the systemic issues that allowed the misconduct in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a mass \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823616/police-violence-since-oscar-grant-has-anything-truly-changed\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">movement over police violence\u003c/a> continues across the country, Stinson says the prevalence of police sexual violence is an integral part of the issue. His research has found that behavior like McGrew’s is normalized in many U.S. police departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not every police officer, of course, is engaging in this kind of behavior,” Stinson says. “But I can tell you that most police officers across the country could tell you of a colleague who engages in this type of behavior.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of times the CHP has disciplined an officer for sexual misconduct in the past five years is still unknown. A coalition of news organizations including KQED requested all such records on Jan. 1, 2019, but the agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11758000/delaying-the-inevitable-many-police-agencies-withhold-records-in-new-era-of-transparency\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">stalled\u003c/a> for over a year before providing a single case file. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817288/kqed-sues-chp-over-failure-to-disclose-discipline-and-use-of-force-records\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">KQED filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> in May against the CHP to force disclosure. The internal investigation of former Officer McGrew was produced shortly thereafter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has also released its investigation into former CHP officer Timothy Larios, whose romantic relationship with a female confidential informant \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817288/kqed-sues-chp-over-failure-to-disclose-discipline-and-use-of-force-records\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">compromised\u003c/a> an interagency narcotics operation and endangered the woman. A third file details the agency’s probe into former officer John Frizzell who was fired in 2014 for fondling a woman’s breasts during a traffic stop and asking another female motorist to lift up her shirt. Like McGrew, neither of these officers faced criminal charges, according to the documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">R\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ecords show the CHP began investigating McGrew after a woman made a complaint in 2016. Like Nicole, this woman made an appointment with McGrew to get her VIN verified so she could get her car registered with the DMV. She had her son with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGrew gave the kid a CHP sticker and looked at the vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGrew then told the woman he would pass her car if she went to a nearby motel with him, according to the documents. The woman, who spoke Spanish, didn’t immediately understand what McGrew was asking. So, McGrew repeated the proposition twice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman went inside the office to complain about McGrew’s behavior. A sergeant asked her if she misunderstood McGrew due to the language barrier and if she’d been drinking or taking drugs. She said there was no misunderstanding and that she wasn’t under the influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She could not explain the expression on Officer McGrew's face, but she said he was smiling when he asked the question about getting a motel room,” the documents say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the internal investigation stemming from that incident the CHP sent three rounds of surveys to about 150 women between 18-40 years of age who’d made appointments with McGrew during his time as an inspection officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829157\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11829157\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/rearview2.jpg\" alt=\"The beautiful eyes of the young driver woman are reflected in the rearview mirror. Blurred road and landscape is in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/rearview2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/rearview2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/rearview2-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/rearview2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/rearview2-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'You don't look disabled from here,' CHP Officer Morgan McGrew told a woman with a disability parking permit. Later in that same appointment he told her, 'You're young, but not too young for me.' \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The CHP improperly redacted dates showing the length of the investigation and time span of McGrew’s abuse. But it is clear that the agency’s investigation did not include anything in the officer’s career before he was assigned to vehicle inspections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By limiting the scope of the investigation to those over the age of 18, investigators may well have missed more vulnerable victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What about the 16- or 17-year-old driver that may own a car that he had come into contact with?” Stinson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHP investigators found multiple women who confirmed that McGrew even made sexual comments to those who were with their partners or children, and he did target young women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One woman with a disability due to a back injury said that McGrew questioned her about parking her vehicle in a handicapped parking spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don't look disabled from here,\" McGrew said, according to the woman. Later in that same appointment he told her, “You're young, but not too young for me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another woman said she felt violated after her experience at the CHP office. According to the documents:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Officer McGrew asked her what she was going to do for him if he passed her car. She said she tried to laugh it off, but believed it was inappropriate. She said he then made comments about ‘handcuffing’ her and getting her in the ‘back seat of her car.’ [Victim’s name redacted] also stated he mentioned taking her to a motel at the end or up the street. She said he even mentioned it had been recently remodeled and that it was fairly clean.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>McGrew admitted to investigators that he had made inappropriate comments to women while on duty, but said he never intended to act on those comments. When asked why he made these propositions to women, McGrew replied: “Just to see if they’ll say yes,” according to interview transcripts in the investigation file.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGrew, however, did date at least one woman he harassed on the job, he told investigators, and he repeatedly texted another for a few months. Both said they cut off contact with him after his explicit messages made them uncomfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGrew solicited two other women for sex via text message after their appointments. Documents show that McGrew got rid of that untraceable prepaid cellphone before investigators could look at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You're dealing with a law enforcement officer who has a gun and a badge they’re a person in a position of authority,\" Stinson says. \"And it's very threatening for a woman to find themselves in that situation where the officer's suggesting that they engage in a sex act. 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My mistake"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1795\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/McGrew-pic-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/McGrew-pic-1-800x748.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/McGrew-pic-1-1020x954.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/McGrew-pic-1-160x150.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/McGrew-pic-1-1536x1436.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Text messages exchanged between former CHP Officer Morgan McGrew and a woman he'd met during a VIN inspection. \u003ccite>(Via California Highway Patrol)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officers like McGrew have immense power. A registered vehicle is often key to a person’s mobility, employment and family life. Without proper registration people can face fines, or even lose their car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And McGrew had access to all of these women’s home addresses and personal cellphone numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">M\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>any of the women told investigators they didn’t file complaints about McGrew because they were afraid of what he might do with the power of his office. Stinson has found that complaints about police sexual misconduct are often never filed because of this fear of retribution, which makes it difficult to ever fully see — and address — the scope of the problem. One woman reported being scared to come back to the CHP for her follow-up appointment because she would have to see McGrew again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole says she didn’t make a complaint due to what she called her “classic chick response.” First, she blamed herself for agreeing to meet a man alone at 7:30 in the morning, even if he was a police officer. Then she tried to rationalize his behavior; maybe he wasn’t serious or maybe he was just an awkward flirt? Months later she learned she wasn’t the only one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole says when she started getting follow-up calls asking her to fill out a survey about her experience, she ignored them. But the calls kept coming until she was getting two or three calls a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I finally stayed on the phone a little longer to be like, ‘Why are you guys bothering me so much? This is a little aggressive for a freaking survey!’” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigator on the phone spelled it out for her; other women had made complaints about McGrew. So Nicole told him what had happened to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After taking her statement, Nicole says the CHP never got back to her to let her know what happened with McGrew. She says she would also have expected the agency to make some kind of changes as a result of the investigation. They have not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No changes to CHP policy were necessary because the behavior was against policy then and is today,” a CHP spokeswoman wrote via email. “The employee's conduct was investigated and the employee was appropriately disciplined.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the three years since this happened, Nicole says she has thought about it a lot. Her father was a police officer and before this experience, Nicole says she felt really positively about police. She doesn’t anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the #MeToo movement started, Nicole says she and her female co-workers shared their experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was one of my stories, because it was one of those moments where I was just like, this could end very badly,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she would have liked the CHP to do more intensive screening of potential officers to weed out people like McGrew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He probably had some sort of history of creeping women the hell out,” Nicole says. “How does someone like that even get that far?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-11786993\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-160x155.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-160x155.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-800x777.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-1020x990.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1.png 1030w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>This story was produced by the \u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Reporting Project\u003c/a>, a coalition of 40 news organizations across the state. The project was formed to request and report on previously secret records of police misconduct and use of force in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A Vacaville man facing sex crime charges involving a 16-year-old girl in 2014 worked until late last year as a correctional officer for the state prison system, according to some of the first internal investigation files released by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation under California’s new police transparency law.[pullquote size=\"small\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jared Lozano, Acting Warden, California Medical Facility\"]'(She) trusted you because you had shared with her that you were a correctional officer.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The records show that prison guard Nathan Ortega became sexually involved with a teenager he met online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prison officials ultimately fired Ortega in 2018 for lying to Vacaville police officers about the “extent and nature” of his relationship with the girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police arrested Ortega on June 21, 2018, under suspicion of sending harmful material to seduce a minor, contacting a minor to commit a felony, sexual penetration and oral sex with a person under 18.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\n“(She) trusted you because you had shared with her that you were a correctional officer,” the acting warden of the California Medical Facility in Vacaville wrote in a Nov. 15, 2018, dismissal notice to Ortega. “Your conduct brought discredit to yourself and the Department. Such conduct is not acceptable and will not be tolerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors charged Ortega in March with six felonies, according to the Solano County District Attorney’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortega first connected with the under-age girl in early 2014 through a website, records from the internal investigation show. In that initial chat, the girl revealed that she was 16 and lived in Los Angeles. Ortega responded that he was 31 and lived in Vacaville. They eventually exchanged phone numbers. The girl told Ortega that she lived in an abusive home she desperately wanted to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortega told the girl he worked as a prison guard and could protect her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon the two were texting daily, the records say. Ortega sent sexually explicit text messages to the Los Angeles teenager and asked her to send him pictures of herself nude. She sent 30 such pictures, according to the prison system’s report. Ortega sent two pictures of his erect penis to the girl, but he stopped when she became “uncomfortable” and asked him not to send any more.[aside postID=\"news_11767613,news_11749447,news_11740176\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Police-Art_1.gif\" heroLink=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/police-records\" target=\"_blank\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortega also used video chat a few times and asked the girl to undress and masturbate in front of the camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July 2014 the girl — then 17 years old — stayed with Ortega in his Vacaville home. She told Vacaville police that the two had intercourse once and oral sex a number of times over the nine-day visit, according to the prison system’s report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortega purchased a plane ticket for the girl to visit a second time in December 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The relationship sputtered out shortly after, when Ortega told her he liked her as a friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The young woman contacted Vacaville police in December 2017 to press charges, according to a disciplinary notice to Ortega.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now that (redacted) was older, she realized that she had felt taken advantage of and manipulated by you,” the record says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A police officer interviewed Ortega on June 13 of last year about the girl’s allegations “that she was raped multiple times by you and there were some other sexual acts performed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortega repeatedly denied having had sex with the minor or ever using force. He eventually admitted the girl came to visit him once and they had oral sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In actual fact, you and (redacted) engaged in numerous sexual acts,” the warden wrote, finding that Ortega’s dishonesty justified firing him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The records show that Ortega confided in the Vacaville police officer that he was worried about his employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m wondering what this will do to my job,” Ortega is quoted as saying. “It horrifies me that there’s any kind of potential that my ability to continue to do what I do might be affected by this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortega spent roughly a month in jail before posting $45,000 in bail. His case is scheduled for trial in Solano County in November.[aside tag=\"california-department-of-corrections-and-rehabilitation\" label=\"State Prisons\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortega’s attorney declined a request for comment while the case is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The misconduct case was among 35 the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation released this month in response to a Jan. 1 public records request filed by a broad coalition of news organizations, including KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a new state transparency law, Senate Bill 1421, all agencies in California that employ peace officers must release disciplinary reports for findings of sexual misconduct or dishonesty and all incidents in which an officer fired a gun or used any type of force that resulted in great bodily injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the 2018 disciplinary cases released so far involve off-duty conduct that violated department policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, several cases that resulted in dismissals for dishonesty stem from employees lying or obfuscating during police investigations of domestic violence or driving under the influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dishonesty was also the prison system’s basis for firing Ortega.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only one dismissal among the 2018 cases released so far was based on sexual misconduct. 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Investigators also concluded that Hill “engaged in oral sex” off duty at Guap’s home on March 24, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond authorities concluded that Hill’s actions, while legal, “reflected unfavorably upon the Department and its members,” especially given Hill’s position at the time as head of Richmond Police Department’s Youth Services Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Hill’s relationship with Guap — and his firing — were previously known, the filings in lawsuit reveal new details about the case and disagreement between Richmond officials on how severely to discipline the former lieutenant.[aside tag='police-sexual-exploitation' label='Police Sexual Exploitation' heroLink='https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/police-sexual-exploitation' target='_blank']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transcripts of the 324 text messages collected from Guap’s cellphone by the Oakland Police Department show Hill texted, “I want to play wit those titties” and asked Guap to “Send a pic of your nippes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill argued he didn’t know that Guap was a sex worker, but she told investigators he absolutely knew, because she told him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one text Guap wrote that she had been kidnapped three times in the past four years, “that’s why I keep to people in your profession.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators couldn’t conclusively prove that Hill knew Guap’s line of work, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Allwyn Brown wanted to suspend Hill for 120 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a Jan. 17, 2017, termination notice to Hill, then-City Manager Bill Lindsay wrote that he could not accept the chief’s recommendation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The behavior described in the Internal Affairs report can only be described as predatory,” Lindsay wrote. “Termination is the appropriate level of discipline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Jackson’s case, an internal investigation found he had engaged in predatory behavior toward the teen when he went to her house on duty and in uniform and fondled her vagina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city manager also fired Jackson, but his job was reinstated on appeal with 160 hours suspension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An administrative law judge recommended similar leniency for Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a January 2018 hearing sealed from the public, Hill’s attorney Michael Rains said his client regretted accepting Guap’s friend request on Facebook, according to transcripts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He is sorry that he ever responded,” Rains argued, “and very sorry for his conduct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rains didn’t respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the hearing, however, he argued that termination was too severe for an employee who did not break the law.[aside tag='police-records' hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Police-Art_1.gif\" heroLink=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/police-records\" target=\"_blank\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he engaged in conduct that was lawful in every respect, that was consensual in every respect, that he thought was private in every respect,” Rains said, “how in the world does he get disciplined for conduct bringing disrepute to the department?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rains implored the judge to consider that Hill had no previous record of serious misconduct in his roughly 22 years of service with the Richmond Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond’s attorney, Todd Simonson, argued that the city has the authority to fire Hill, especially in light of the lieutenant’s leadership of the Youth Services Division. Simonson told the administrative law judge that Guap was “an extremely troubled youth at the time, exactly the kind of youth that Lieutenant Hill’s divisions was supposed to protect and serve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Simonson said, Hill did the opposite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lieutenant Hill’s first concern, according to the text messages that we’ll go through, was to play with Miss (Guap’s) breasts and secondarily, to verify that she was indeed 18 years old. 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"content": "\u003cp>A Pinole cop who was fired as a deputy sheriff after filing a false police report in 2014 had also paid for a sex act at a massage parlor, court records show, contributing to his termination even as he portrayed himself as the victim of an aggressive masseuse whom he couldn't stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newly discovered records also reveal that Pinole police Officer Josh Shavies, a former Washington State University football lineman, was accused during divorce proceedings in 2014 through 2016 of abusing his wife and whipping his children with belts, raising new questions about why Pinole hired him three years after the Alameda County Sheriff fired him in 2015 for matters unrelated to the abuse allegations.[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Michael Risher,\u003cbr>Attorney']'A person who has a documented history of lying and violent behavior and abuse has no business being a police officer in California.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shavies did not answer repeated requests for an interview. In divorce filings, he denied his wife's abuse allegations and said he spanked the children as \"a normal part of child rearing,\" not mentioning a belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a telephone interview from Florida where she now lives with the couple's son, Shavies' ex-wife said she exaggerated the allegations that he abused her because she was desperate to win custody of the child. But Christina Van Ness, a lawyer who represented her in the divorce, described her in an email as \"100 percent truthful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area News Group is not naming her because she said in divorce proceedings that she was a victim of abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month the Alameda County Sheriff released documents under Senate Bill 1421, the state's new police transparency law, showing Shavies was \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/06/29/former-deputy-fired-for-dishonesty-working-as-an-east-bay-cop/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fired for lying\u003c/a> to about a break-in at his home and damaged furniture. The documents did not include details about the massage parlor incident that also played a role in his termination. But Shavies himself exposed his unprofessional conduct by putting the full termination document in the divorce file, arguing that it showed that his wife was being vindictive when she alerted his bosses about his misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contacted after the Alameda County disciplinary files were released, Pinole \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11758566/pinole-police-chief-defends-hiring-fired-deputy-who-made-false-report\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Police Chief Neil Gang said\u003c/a> he believed Shavies deserved a second chance in law enforcement and hired him to join the department in Pinole, a city of about 19,000 north of Richmond on San Pablo Bay in Contra Costa County.[aside postID='news_11758566' target=\"_blank\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a reporter asked the chief about the further indiscretions revealed in Shavies' divorce file, Gang responded via email that he spoke with Shavies' ex-wife and was satisfied with her exaggeration explanation and continued to support Shavies. It was unclear what Gang knew about the domestic abuse allegations prior to being contacted by this news organization. He declined several interview requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked why Alameda County did not release the complete termination documents to this news agency, a sheriff's department spokesman said the massage parlor incident, which occurred when Shavies was off duty, did not fall under the law's disclosure requirements. If Shavies had been on duty at time, it would have fallen under SB 1421's broad definition of sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court records show Ahern also fired Shavies for soliciting prostitution and for violating rules that require officers to \"conduct their private lives in such a manner as to reflect favorably on the agency.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahern also described Shavies as dishonest for his explanation after his then-wife questioned credit card charges from a Dublin massage parlor on the family account. Ahern wrote that Shavies claimed a masseuse suddenly pulled down his shorts when he only wanted a back massage, shocking him so much he could not stop her from committing the sex act, which he then paid for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff wrote that Shavies knew the agency sometimes runs undercover sting operations in massage parlors like one he visited, and he \"violated the goals and efficiency\" of the Sheriff’s Office. He also wrote that Shavies' ex-wife had found other instances where he had visited sex workers, and that Shavies had searched online for massage parlors where sex was available on a website, “RubMaps.com.”[aside tag='police-records' hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Police-Art_1-1.gif\" heroLink=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/police-records\" target=\"_blank\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It happened so quick,\" Shavies told investigators several times when asked why he didn't stop the unwanted sexual massage, according to an interview transcript in his divorce file. Shavies said he panicked, paid $80 on a credit card and left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His wife questioned why there were two $40 charges to the Mayflower Massage Parlor on a credit card bill, later telling investigators that she was suspicious because Shavies didn't like massages. In a series of text messages, Shavies told her he had sore back and that a fellow deputy accompanied him and that he'd paid for two massages. But pressed, Shavies eventually told her the story about the masseuse pulling down his shorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court records also show Shavies' now ex-wife accused him of physical abuse and of beating his sons with belts. In one instance, she wrote that he came home from work and flew into a rage because the couple's son refused to put on his pajamas and go to bed. Shavies came \"running up the stairs with (his) belt,\" she wrote, grabbed his son's wrist and lifted him off the ground and began \"to whip\" the child, who was about 4 or 5 years old at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The belt was striking (the child's) midsection area, his arms, and his legs,\" she wrote, adding that Shavies landed about 12 blows before she could stop him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A teacher at a Pleasanton's Lydiksen Elementary School called police after seeing marks on one of the boys in 2011. Police took a report and referred the matter to Child Protective Services, according to records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pleasanton Police, in an email, wrote they do not to have a copy of the 2011 incident report. Police routinely purge such records more than five years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A policing expert said someone with a record like Shavies' should not be in law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A person who has a documented history of lying and violent behavior and abuse has no business being a police officer in California,\" said attorney Michael Risher, who formally worked for the ACLU of Northern California on police issues. \"Most police departments would say no.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuse allegations in the couple's divorce records include statements by Shavies’ ex-wife that he physically abused her by choking her, forcing her to orally copulate him, and pushing her out of a moving vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know I look like an idiot for marrying him,\" she told sheriff's investigators in late 2014. In court papers, she wrote that the couple's marriage was \"full of abuse toward me. I never reported any of this violence during our relationship to law enforcement. I felt Josh believed he was 'above the law' and he was out of control ... I also knew documenting the abuse and obtaining a restraining order would affect his job, which in turn would further enrage Josh and provoke inevitable retaliation by him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a phone interview last week, her voice quavering and sometimes barely audible, she said repeatedly, \"I just wanted custody\" of their son and that she had \"blocked out\" much of what had happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am not going to say I perjured myself,\" Shavies’ ex-wife, also a former Alameda County Sheriff's Deputy, said. She said that Shavies' beatings of their child and his children from a previous marriage were \"just because of the way he was raised. The choice of punishment was physical punishment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also said Shavies' family had asked her to speak with Pinole Police Chief Gang after a Bay Area News Group reporter called the chief and Shavies to ask about the abuse allegations. 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San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard Ulmer ordered the First Amendment Coalition and KQED, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11730624/kqed-sues-attorney-general-fighting-for-access-to-police-misconduct-and-shooting-records\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joined the lawsuit\u003c/a> in March, to negotiate a timeline and other issues with the Attorney General’s Office. The parties are scheduled to report back to court on June 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Friday afternoon, Becerra abandoned his previous \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723281/california-attorney-general-refuses-to-release-police-misconduct-files-despite-new-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contradictory position\u003c/a> on the new law, Senate Bill 1421. He has argued repeatedly that he agrees it applies to any files in a law enforcement agency’s possession, regardless of when they were created.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in light of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719280/police-unions-fight-to-block-public-from-officer-records-california-newsrooms-fight-back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">police unions throughout the state\u003c/a> filing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11734079/records-union-sued-to-keep-secret-show-walnut-creek-police-officer-disciplined-for-false-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now-defeated\u003c/a> court challenges to the law’s application to cases before the start of 2019, Becerra had said he needed further direction from judges before making any of the information public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With this court’s ruling, my office now has much of the clarity we have sought in our efforts to appropriately follow the letter of the law,” Becerra said in a written statement announcing that the state Department of Justice plans to begin releasing misconduct files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a hearing Friday morning, Ulmer relied heavily on a March state appeals court \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11732520/appeals-court-covering-bay-area-rules-in-favor-of-releasing-police-misconduct-shooting-records\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ruling\u003c/a> that the police unions’ arguments are “without merit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve got to follow what they say, don’t I?” he asked attorneys representing the state Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy Attorney General Jennifer Rosenberg said that technically, the appeals court ruling was on a request for a stay, and not on the actual question of whether older police misconduct records should be made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Call me a literalist, but I’m just kind of hung up on that you say the court didn’t address the issue on the merits when they say this argument is without merit,” Ulmer replied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to questioning SB 1421’s application to older records, the attorney general has argued that he shouldn’t have to turn over files about local police and sheriff’s departments, but should only be obligated to provide information about state agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To support that argument, Senior Assistant Attorney General Michael Newman wrote that an example case from a local law enforcement agency “includes over 109,000 items stored in an electronic database, including text messages, emails, documents, photographs and audio or video files,” that would all need to be reviewed and redacted before being made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its written statement Friday afternoon, the Department of Justice maintained that it does not plan to release the files it has from local law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ulmer said that Newman’s declaration was “terse and conclusory.” He said the new law clearly requires the Department of Justice to turn over any records it maintains, regardless of who created them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What this sounds like to me is you don’t want to do the work at the Attorney General’s Office,” Ulmer said, adding that he understands the position “because it’s going to be onerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he added that the issue is bigger than First Amendment and news organizations pursuing the records with the help of “high-powered lawyers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s mothers and fathers of people shot by the police,” he said, underscoring the public interest in the long-secret information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Thomas Burke, who represents KQED in the case, said Becerra’s position has led many police departments and sheriffs to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11724499/cities-use-state-attorney-general-letter-to-fight-release-of-police-misconduct-files\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">withhold their own files\u003c/a>. 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But three months before Paulson resigned, District Attorney Jill Ravitch’s office declined to prosecute, saying the victim would not cooperate, the records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joan Croft, a district attorney spokeswoman, said the internal affairs documents released Wednesday by the Sheriff’s Office contain more information than prosecutors had when they made their decision in May 2017 not to press charges. Croft said she could not comment further until the files were reviewed by the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attorney for the female inmate, however, insisted she did cooperate with district attorney officials at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told an investigator the two had kissed, and that she stripped for Paulson, but she did not confirm sexual contact that he later admitted to, according to the records, including that he had touched her breast or buttocks, said Izaak Schwaiger, a Sonoma County civil rights attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paulson, reached via email, declined to comment for this story. He began Army training around the time he resigned, according to a Facebook post in July 2018. The Army could not immediately confirm his service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The records detailing the inquiry into Paulson’s on-duty behavior were among five internal investigation files made public by the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday under the police transparency law, Senate Bill 1421, that went into effect in January. 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She declined further comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paulson initially appealed the firing notice, but records show he resigned two months later, in August 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A search of his name in the Sonoma County Superior Court website showed no criminal or civil cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Army spokeswoman said applicant screening includes an extensive background check and interviews “to determine if applicants have a history of conduct that shows they have questionable moral character or that they hold views that are inconsistent with Army values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essick said Paulson’s was the only case of sexual misconduct he is aware of involving a correctional deputy and an inmate in the Sonoma County jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public disclosure of the case comes less than a year after Sonoma County agreed to pay $1.7 million to settle a lawsuit filed by former inmates at the jail who said they were physically and verbally abused by correctional deputies in 2015 as part of a formal “\u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8422996-181/sonoma-county-jail-yard-counseling\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">yard counseling\u003c/a>” policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit prompted the office to retrain jail employees on use‐of‐force procedures. 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He also told his golfing partners, who included current and former officers and Fairfield City Councilman Chuck Timm, that “he wanted to get a piece of her,” documents show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timm did not return a phone call Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women also said he made lewd comments, slapped them on the behind and squeezed one of them on the shoulder so hard it hurt while telling her that he wanted to give her the “biggest tip of her life,” according to the documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The women told investigators that they dubbed Griego “Creepy Joe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fairfield released detailed documents on two separate investigations of Griego this week under Senate Bill 1421, the state’s new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/police-records\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">police transparency law\u003c/a>. 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