The city of Oakland is facing a $2.6 million payout after a jury found that city officials failed to protect an employee from years of sexual harassment.
An Alameda County Superior Court jury on Monday unanimously found that Oakland failed to protect the plaintiff, Patricia Toscano, who worked at the East Oakland Senior Center, and retaliated against her when she came forward, according to the woman's lawyers. Toscano, an East Oakland native, worked at the center for nearly a decade as an administrative assistant.
That investigation found that Knight, who was eventually dismissed from the lawsuit, violated the city's sexual harassment policy and that the city's Human Services Department failed to comply with city policies designed to prevent harassment, said Toscano's lawyer Sharon Vinick.Through it all, the city failed to remove Knight from Toscano's work environment, threatened her with discipline and termination and ultimately reassigned her to a different senior center, Vinick said.
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