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- The California attorney general is investigating the El Monte Union High School District in Southern California.
- The action follows Business Insider’s reporting on a pattern of sexual misconduct at one district school, Rosemead High.
- Investigators are looking at compliance failures related to “suspected child abuse, sexual abuse, assault.”
The California attorney general is investigating a Southern California school district over whether it properly handled claims of educator sexual abuse and misconduct, records reviewed by Business Insider show.
BI was the first to obtain evidence of a pattern of abuse at Rosemead High, overseen by the El Monte Union High School District, for a series revealing widespread complaints of sexual misconduct involving more than 20 different educators that persisted from the 1980s through last year. In several cases, employees who were alerted to inappropriate relationships between colleagues and students failed to report them to child protective services despite being mandated to do so under state law.