by Bob Walsh
Over the last three years the formerly great state of California has paid out $25 million to settle sexual harassment beefs. Almost all of this is taxpayers money and much of it (though not all) is settled on the QT. A total of 92 cases are represented by this money.
The smallest award was $500 to a prison inmate. The larges was $10 million to four wards of what used to be called the California Youth Authority.
In perhaps the most egregious case a supervisor of the Cal. State Hospital System (nut farm) hid a video camera under a bathroom sink in a staff bathroom at the state prison hospital at Stockton. A total of 34 workers sued.
Initially the state fought it on the grounds that the invasion of privacy was not gender specific as both genders (or all three or four or five depending on how you count in CA) were taped in the unisex bathroom, but they eventually settled for a tad over $750,000. The supervisor was successfully prosecuted for several misdemeanor complaints.
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