CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Park District has paid a minimum of $330,000 to outdoors regulation companies investigating the division’s response to allegations of sexual harassment or abuse involving lifeguards at swimming pools and seashores.
Authorized payments related to the problem embody $259,000 to a regulation agency charged with investigating the park district’s response to the allegations, based on WBEZ in Chicago.
The agency launched that report in early November. A former federal prosecutor main the hassle discovered then-CEO and Normal Superintendent Michael Kelly failed to analyze the allegations instantly after studying of them.
Kelly later resigned and three different officers had been fired.
One other regulation agency has charged $70,000 to help the park district inspector basic’s workplace in investigating dozens of complaints filed by workers, alleging that present of former workers had assaulted or harassed them.
The inspector basic’s workplace reported in January that there was proof supporting 29 of the 49 allegations investigated.
“At a number of areas, long-tolerated hazing habits fostered an surroundings the place bullying, harassing and sexual misconduct flourished and went unchallenged,” the report stated.
Representatives for the park district and regulation companies declined to touch upon the authorized payments.