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relationship, and the second was that "I
needed to tnist him. and everything that
wo do and talk aliout tonight is just be
tween us.”
Scarborough grahhed Chinppisi's hand
and told her to trust him as they walked
from his car to the theater, she said.
Chiappisi said she believed he wanted
her to see how other (ample looked at an
"interrai ial c ouple"
Inside tin1 theater, Chiappisi said Scar
borough told her In* carried a gun wher
ever he wont and that he had a concealed
weapons permit
During the film, Scarborough placed
hr. hand on her thigh at least or*^- she
said < .hiappisi said she w as frightened
In tins, hut was intimidated by his ad
mission that he i arried a gun.
Alter the liiovie (.hiappisi s.icd the\
(Stopped at a "7-KIeven-type" gas station
and priM ended to relate the mm ic to the
Afrii.on-Amern an expenenc e
After about ^0 minutes, (.hiappisi said
she Irtici Sc urlairotigh it was v:«*t111;i.ile
and tier boyfriend was waiting up lor
her
Scarborough then told her tie wanted
to go part, somewhere and experience
wlicit he wanted her to know about Afri
mu Americ an men. (.hiappisi said
Parking on Viilard Street, she said
Scarborough told her he had rented a lo
cal hotel room for the following Friday
inghl "to view some Afruan-Americ an
films."
Scarborough then gratified (.huippisi's
hand and placed it on his face and hair.
savine lie "want
‘Whatever
the other
person
involved
says, we’ll
just leave it
at that’
Otis
Scarborough,
OPS officer
ed me to feel
what il fell like In
Ih* it hl.'H k man,"
she s n i d
lihiappisi said
site told Scarbo
rough she was
u iu nm lor t alile
with this and
asked In lie taken
home.
Chiappisi said
S< iirhorongh pro
ceeded to ask her
esplii it questions
alMHit her sexual
life
hiT apartment. sin* said S< arliorough lold
her In* loved and i a rod about her
('hiappisi said she was in "shot k" for
two days after ihnl evening, after which
she told tier boyfriend whnt had hap
pened. He told ('.hiappisi she should tell
iier supervisor.
"1 told George Faithful, who wasn't my
supervisor at the time, but I had known
him the longest." (.hiappisi said. "He
told me if I told Carey (Drayton). Otis
would get fired. He made me feel like it
was mv fault."
OPS supervisor George Faithful denier)
saying this
"I told her her options and toll) her to
talk to Drayton." Faithful said. "She was
highly distraught at the lime."
The following Friday, ('hiappisi told
Sc arftorough she was feeling ill. and they
Otis Scarborough
didn't go out together Shortly after, sin*
was moved to the night-time shift and
didn't have any ton tact with Stnrbo
rougli Chiappisi said sin- suspet ts her
shifts were changed Itecauee of the int i
dont with St artiorough, but said she isn't
t art a in
One evening in mid-June after her
shift. C.hiappisi received an t*st.ot1 ride
horntt from a woman OFS sot unty officer
who made a comment about Scarbo
rough being sexist
The woman offiter. a former full-time
()I’S employee, requested anonymity but
tigoMHl to sign a limited waiver of confi
dentialitv in the event of litigation All of
the unnamed sources in this report
signed similar affidavits.
The woman offit er said site told
Chiappisi about two alleged incidents
that happened last April with St arlH>
rough.
The first ini itlenl, the full-time offit er
said, oct tirred when he ran his finger
at ross her breast as siie tightened her
bullet-proof vest before her shift
The second incident, she said, oc
t tim*d when Scarborough t ame into the
women's lot ker room after apparently
overhearing a conversation the officer
was having about her ex-husband.
The offit er said Scarborough t ame
into the lot ker room and said. "I didn’t
know you were married " She said he
then followed her out to her car. leaned
in the window and said, "If I knew you'd
been married. I would'vo asked you out a
long time ago." She believed Scarbo
rough had previously assumed she was a
lesbian, she said
"You don't have to have had a wom
en's studies course to know sexual ha
rassment," the officer said. "It comes
from the gut, and you have to trust that
fueling."
The officer quit her job shortly after
because "it was not a professional
enough place for me to work, and it was
making me very unhappy." she said.
•Cany (Drayton) didn't
move as quickly as he
should have. I felt he
dktnt can about what
Otis did:
Jean Chiappisi.
fifed harassment complaint
After the officer told her her stories.
Chiappisi said she told the officer about
her incident with Scarborough.
The officer convinced Chiappisi to tell
Drayton and said she would accompany
her
"That vsas the first week I'd found out
he (sexually harassed) someone else."
Chiappisi said "Then the rest of the
week I started talking w ith other women
in the offic e, and that's when I found out
about another student officer he had sex
ually harassed."
Other allegations ol sexual harassment
have surfai ed regarding another full-time
OPS employee, not Scarborough, who al
legedly harassed a student employee and
a full-time employee.
The two women, who requested ano
nymity because they still work at OPS.
said gift-giving, repeatedly calling one of
them at home and unwanted attention
given to them by this supervisor were the
basis of their different experiences
The student, who claims she was ha
rassed last June by the full-time employ
ee, said she told Drayton the various
ways the supervisor harassed her. Dray
ton said he conducted his own internal
investigation and later found the em
ployee to la* in violation of his definition
of "inappropriate behavior."
I did as much as I could; this had to
do a lot w ith inappropriate behavior and
not necessarily sexual harassment."
Drayton said "1 felt the measures that I
took were very strong measures. The in
dividual had some written reprimands
placed in his permanent file, dramatic
shift changes, plus he had to seek em
ployee assistance for dealing with some
issues “
The student officer who said she was
harassed by this employee lust June, said
if she were to do it over again, she
wouldn’t file a complaint with Drayton
Ins ause of the animosity within the of
fice that imgan as a result. She said a lot
of the OPS officers still won't talk to her
tiecause they told her she hadn't been
sexually harassed and that the individual
was just l»ing nice.
"If I had to do it again. I wouldn't —
I’d quit first.” she said "It's just not
worth it." She also said going through
the affirmative action office wasn't w-orth
it because "look what happened with
Jean (Chiappisi) — Otis is still around.”
The full-time employee, who also said
she was harassed by this same individu
al. said she spoke to Drayton at Hint it.
but didn't request an investigation. She
said this person didn't bother her again.
The student officer who told Chiappisi
she was sexually harassed by Scarbo
rough lost January also requested ano
nymity because she still works at OPS.
She told Chiappisi that after weeks of
hint asking her out and calling her. she
finally gave in and agreed only to have
lunch with Scarborough
"I think Otis look (the student offi
cer's) niceness for granted." said sopho
more Julie Regimbal, the student officer's
roommate at the time. "He'd call a lot
and leave messages on the machine ■— he
didn't take the hint."
The student officer said she and Scar
borough went to a local restaurant, he
showered her with c mpliments. told
her he wanted to date her ns much as
possible and also told her he lived with a
woman, hut they each could bring any
one home
The student officer said Scarborough
pressed the idea of renting movies and
buying wine to take to his house. She
said she lied, tolling him she had a l«)\
friend and had to go home. She didn't
talk with Scarborough again after that.
This same student officer said
Chinppisi's complaint against Scarbo
rough was well known in the office, and,
hex ause of that, the male student officers
stopped talking to the female student of
ficers. saving the women would file sex
ual harassment claims against them.
The student officer who claims she
was harassed by Scarborough last Janu
ary said the animosity continues today,
and she chooses to walk her night shift
alone because she doesn't want to deal
with the other male student officers.
After seriously considering quitting
her job last October because the OPS en
vironment "got so bad," the student offi
cer said she asked ASUO Safety Affairs
Coordinator Caitilin Twain to go to the
Office of Affirmative Action with her last
0( toiler
"(The student officer) told me things
had been going on in the OPS, and I've
definitely been an advocate for women’s
issues." Twain said. "We went together
and some of the things felt uncomfort
able. but they were supportive of her.
"I want to see women get excited
about working in offices like OPS. where
it's typically male-dominated." Twain
said "As far as I'm concerned, we need a
lot more women officers in that office."
Shortly after these women told
Chiappisi they had been sexually ha
rassed also. Chiappisi. the full-time offi
cer and the student officer talked to
Drayton together about their individual
experiences.
"In the meeting. Carey (Drayton) said,
'Otis has always harassed student offi
cers. but you're the first to come forward
who's willing to put her name on a com
plaint.' " Chiappisi said. The two other
women at the meeting confirmed Dray
ton's statement.
Drayton denied saying "harassed" and
said he told the women he was aware of
situations in which Scarborough had act
ed "inappropriately" in the past.
"There's a difference between inappro
priate behavior and sexual harassment
by the legal definitions of those words,"
Drayton said. "As an employer, 1 got to
define what inappropriateness is for my
agency. As an employer. 1 don't get to
define what sexual harassment is. That's
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