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LAPD Settles ACLU Sexual Assault Case for $165,000;<BR>
Case Symbolizes Persistent Sexual Harassment, Gender<BR>Inequities</H2>
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January 25, 1995</B><P>

LOS ANGELES -- As jurors were about to return a verdict, the City of Los Angeles
and Los Angeles Police Department officials agreed to pay $165,000 to a former
female officer raped by a male colleague on Police Academy grounds in 1990 in a
case that symbolizes persistent sexual harassment and gender equity shortcomings
in the LAPD. If the settlement is not approved by the L.A. City Council, a jury
verdict reached in the case will be unsealed.<P>

The agreement to compensate former Officer Suzanne Campbell came late Tuesday
afternoon, on the 19th day of a jury trial in a lawsuit filed by the American
Civil Liberties Union of Southern California on Campbell's behalf. The lawsuit is
but one of five similar cases revealing a pattern of chronic sexual
discrimination and harassment within the department. In May of 1994, the ACLU,
the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund and the law firm of Litt and Marquez
filed a class-action lawsuit against the LAPD for widespread discrimination
against female employees.<P>

The lawsuit raised broad questions about the failure of the LAPD, city officials
and former Chief Daryl F. Gates to gain control over pervasive sexism, sexual
harassment and sexual assault within the LAPD. Under Chief Willie L. Williams,
the LAPD has implemented some changes in its sexual harassment policies and
treatment of female officers, but the progress has been far slower than the
circumstances require.<P>

The Campbell litigation grew out of an incident in September 1990, when Campbell
was followed into a women's bathroom by a male officer who sexually assaulted her
when she was ill from intoxication.  The incident occurred after both officers
had been drinking in a bar at the Police Academy lounge.<P>

After a nearly year-long campaign by Campbell to force department officials to
respond to the rape appropriately, the LAPD terminated the male officer.<P>
However, the action came after Gates reversed a recommendation of the command
staff at Pacific Division that Campbell's assailant be subjected to a Board of
Rights disciplinary hearing. Gates, instead, found all allegations against the
male officer to be unsustained.<P>

"Resolution of this lawsuit sends a powerful message that the LAPD must fulfill
its legal obligation to provide a safe working environment for all of its
employees," said Carol Sobel, ACLU senior staff counsel and the lawyer who
represented Campbell<P>

Campbell is one of almost two dozen current or former LAPD female officers
represented by the ACLU in actions against the department stemming from separate
sexual harassment episodes. "Hopefully, the process of change, which has long
been overdue, will be hastened by this settlement with Suzanne Campbell," Sobel
said.<P>

When Campbell met with department officials to seek reconsideration of Gates'
decision to drop charges against the male officer, she was told no
reconsideration was possible. Later, the commander of the Internal Affairs
Division, in a meeting with Campbell, said it was LAPD policy not to take
disciplinary action in "one-on-one" sexual harassment incidents. Campbell also
said that LAPD personnel said that she would be disciplined for having sex on
department property and excessive drinking if she persisted in her attempts to
have her assailant disciplined.<P>

Testifying in the court case in the days before the city made its settlement
offer, Campbell described repeated incidents of harassment by male officers while
she was on duty, starting when she joined the department in 1987 until she left
patrol in 1992.<P>

"Aggressive recruitment campaigns targeting women are hollow if female recruits
meet bigotry, animosity and abuse when they join the team," said Ramona Ripston,
ACLU Executive Director. "From the Chief on down, LAPD personnel must know that
discrimination and assault against women officers cannot be condoned."<P>
Campbell, who was named officer of the year for Rampart Division in 1993 and
received national recognition by the White House and the National Association of
Police Chief Executives for the community-based policing program that she
developed, resigned from the department in August of 1994. She is now a full-time
mother raising her eight-month-old son.
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	LAPD Settles ACLU Sexual Assault Case for $165,000;<BR>
	Case Symbolizes Persistent Sexual Harassment, Gender<BR>Inequities</H2>
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	FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<BR>
	January 25, 1995</B><P>

	LOS ANGELES -- As jurors were about to return a verdict, the City of Los Angeles
	and Los Angeles Police Department officials agreed to pay $165,000 to a former
	female officer raped by a male colleague on Police Academy grounds in 1990 in a
	case that symbolizes persistent sexual harassment and gender equity shortcomings
	in the LAPD. If the settlement is not approved by the L.A. City Council, a jury
	verdict reached in the case will be unsealed.<P>

	The agreement to compensate former Officer Suzanne Campbell came late Tuesday
	afternoon, on the 19th day of a jury trial in a lawsuit filed by the American
	Civil Liberties Union of Southern California on Campbell's behalf. The lawsuit is
	but one of five similar cases revealing a pattern of chronic sexual
	discrimination and harassment within the department. In May of 1994, the ACLU,
	the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund and the law firm of Litt and Marquez
	filed a class-action lawsuit against the LAPD for widespread discrimination
	against female employees.<P>

	The lawsuit raised broad questions about the failure of the LAPD, city officials
	and former Chief Daryl F. Gates to gain control over pervasive sexism, sexual
	harassment and sexual assault within the LAPD. Under Chief Willie L. Williams,
	the LAPD has implemented some changes in its sexual harassment policies and
	treatment of female officers, but the progress has been far slower than the
	circumstances require.<P>

	The Campbell litigation grew out of an incident in September 1990, when Campbell
	was followed into a women's bathroom by a male officer who sexually assaulted her
	when she was ill from intoxication. The incident occurred after both officers
	had been drinking in a bar at the Police Academy lounge.<P>

	After a nearly year-long campaign by Campbell to force department officials to
	respond to the rape appropriately, the LAPD terminated the male officer.<P>
	However, the action came after Gates reversed a recommendation of the command
	staff at Pacific Division that Campbell's assailant be subjected to a Board of
	Rights disciplinary hearing. Gates, instead, found all allegations against the
	male officer to be unsustained.<P>

	"Resolution of this lawsuit sends a powerful message that the LAPD must fulfill
	its legal obligation to provide a safe working environment for all of its
	employees," said Carol Sobel, ACLU senior staff counsel and the lawyer who
	represented Campbell<P>

	Campbell is one of almost two dozen current or former LAPD female officers
	represented by the ACLU in actions against the department stemming from separate
	sexual harassment episodes. "Hopefully, the process of change, which has long
	been overdue, will be hastened by this settlement with Suzanne Campbell," Sobel
	said.<P>

	When Campbell met with department officials to seek reconsideration of Gates'
	decision to drop charges against the male officer, she was told no
	reconsideration was possible. Later, the commander of the Internal Affairs
	Division, in a meeting with Campbell, said it was LAPD policy not to take
	disciplinary action in "one-on-one" sexual harassment incidents. Campbell also
	said that LAPD personnel said that she would be disciplined for having sex on
	department property and excessive drinking if she persisted in her attempts to
	have her assailant disciplined.<P>

	Testifying in the court case in the days before the city made its settlement
	offer, Campbell described repeated incidents of harassment by male officers while
	she was on duty, starting when she joined the department in 1987 until she left
	patrol in 1992.<P>

	"Aggressive recruitment campaigns targeting women are hollow if female recruits
	meet bigotry, animosity and abuse when they join the team," said Ramona Ripston,
	ACLU Executive Director. "From the Chief on down, LAPD personnel must know that
	discrimination and assault against women officers cannot be condoned."<P>
	Campbell, who was named officer of the year for Rampart Division in 1993 and
	received national recognition by the White House and the National Association of
	Police Chief Executives for the community-based policing program that she
	developed, resigned from the department in August of 1994. She is now a full-time
	mother raising her eight-month-old son.
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