San Jose Unified School District alerted families that an unauthorized adult woman had been videotaping community members across school campuses and even inside a high school girls’ locker room before posting the recordings to social media, according to NBC Bay Area. The San Jose Police Department confirmed it is now conducting active investigations into both the locker room intrusion and a separate harassment complaint involving the same woman, identified as 47-year-old Lindsay Hansen.
The case burst into public view after a viral encounter in San Jose’s Almaden neighborhood, where a local father filmed Hansen confronting him on a Sunday, as reported by SFist. In the video, the father — who described himself as brown, with a daughter he called half-white — said Hansen accused him of sex trafficking his own child, basing the accusation on the fact that the two had different skin tones. Hansen also questioned whether he was legally in the country and claimed she worked with federal authorities, according to reporting from the New York Post. The father later reported the incident to the San Jose Police Department, and police confirmed they are investigating the harassment complaint.
A Honda vehicle visible in the viral video is registered to Hansen, per the Post’s reporting, and a TikTok user who posted footage of the encounter said the woman had harassed him and his daughter multiple times in their San Jose neighborhood. Hansen has separately been accused of entering a girls’ locker room at a San Jose Unified school and of accusing PE teachers of inappropriate behavior. San Jose police said social media photos showed an adult female unassociated with the school accessing a high school locker room, and the district said it is working closely with police to determine how the entry occurred.
A History of Documented Mental Health Crisis
Court filings reviewed by the Post paint a starkly different picture from the online “racist Karen” framing that first attached to Hansen. Her family reported her missing in 2022, and a relative told police at the time that she was experiencing severe mental health issues while living with her elderly father, according to KTVU…