- For a year, Frenso State stonewalled the release of investigation reports into sexual misconduct.
- The university tried to get union officials to sign a nondisclosure agreement in order to get it.
- That stonewalling helped derail a potential legislative audit of the university.
- Now that the reports are public, the audit could go forward and cover additional CSU campuses.
For a year, California State University officials stonewalled the public release of investigation reports that described a pattern of sexual harassment, bullying and retaliation by a senior administrator at the CSU Fresno campus, documents obtained by USA TODAY show.
CSU officials received a public records request from the CSU Employees Union seeking copies of the reports in November 2020, records show. The request came three months after then-Fresno State president Joseph Castro signed a settlement agreement with the administrator, Frank Lamas, that gave Lamas a clean record, $260,000, and a letter of recommendation from Castro.
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