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PORTER | scoTT STATEMENT BY ATTORNEY NANCY SNFEHAN ON DEWALE OF FORMER ASSEMBLY MEMBEI SEBASTIAN RIDLEY-THOMAS Turing my 30 years of employment law prtice, which has included conducting workplace investigatiors ani defending cases hased an workplace invewtigalions, ‘would be hard-presse¢ to rccail # mare profudicia! coniplaint and investigative process Thum this ons. It defied aoy deftaition af due gracess and objectivityy did not corxply With the Asscmoly’s oven policies, andthe outeime "stated by the Knowledge dt the process was used for rcraliatory purposes Alter the Assembly Rules Committee informed my sient in November 2017 that he ‘was being investigated fir alleyed violation of a6 unspecilied policy, it sleulfastly refsod to provide us with the most hasie information about the enraplainauts and their allegations until my clismt was incrviowed by an investigator eight raonihs late. We were given a reloively short time afterward to pull together respemsive documentation an his behalf, Bur this was in no way couumensonute wilh tho fll year that the compleinan's hud uo prepare their alleyatims hefore my eliges vas interviewee. hece is mathing abom the marmer in which the Rutex Comamirtoe condnctel this investigation that is consistent with the right to due pricess woven clu California law, no Ze tke Assembly’s tepresentglion that investigates wil be fair andl objective Furthermore, the investigator Instructed us that all infaemaiim rogaiding the investigation was to he kepl confidentiat. We lollowed the investiguor x instruction. (Otters involved in the investigation process did not Somsone withia the very small group of Assembly persounel Winn were avane of the alleyativns leaked rows of the investigation to the res, resulting :n a Thmt-pags sory im the Lav Angedes Times white the investigation was taking pluoe, This gross ahuse of power by someone with acooss to conlidential information was an act of cetaliutom agsinet ry olicut for voluntarily participating in the inwsstigation. Sue relalistion is siticly prohibited ude: the Assembly's own policies, Tle Assernbly’s ony respnse fo cour complaint ral rejuest for an investigalion vias thar it eauld nol identity the seuree Di he fork, whict shows it emnaet guarantee the Fi investigccion prowess it pumpors to provide, ‘The amount of reductiva in the doctnents relensed by the Assembly shows that mow af the alleyoiions were unsubstantizted, bor those thul remain, my client refuked each one point hy point duiing the investiation aus provided evidenes supporting his pesition He coutiaues to strong’y deny the claims An fight of ow this insestgacinn wis skewed, it iv dilfieuic to have eoatidence in its Findings. Allegations of sexual Janowment are sctions, The prosess wsod te investigate them amd mate findings needs to be careful, Tur to all involved, und eonaueted! it absolute integrity, Lefbrtumcely, this seas’ true in my elient's ease aad is theme uuraeceprable (osmomzinxe