Harris County's constable's office accused of abusing female deputies
JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press
May 24, 2021
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HOUSTON (AP) — Three female deputies filed a federal lawsuit Monday accusing a Texas constable of turning the office's undercover operations into a “booze-fueled playground for sexual exploitation."
The deputies, who either work or worked for the Harris County Precinct 1 Constable’s Office in Houston, alleged women were subjected to unwarranted touching and kissing, molestation and sexual ridicule during their work with the office’s human trafficking unit.
The lawsuit alleges the office of Constable Alan Rosen set up undercover sting operations that were supposed to ultimately arrest those behind sex trafficking businesses. But those operations turned more into parties where officers drank heavily and the female deputies, who were given little to no training in undercover work, were fondled and kissed by their supervisory officer or were told to give lap dances to other male deputies.