Homeland Security Watchdog Omitted Damaging Findings From Reports

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1. Almost 1/3 of respondents said they suffered sexual harassment

The sexual misconduct inquiry, which started before Mr. Cuffari took over as inspector general, included a 2018 survey of employees at the department’s police agencies. Out of roughly 28,000 respondents, more than 10,000 said they had experienced sexual harassment or sexual misconduct in their workplace.

Of those who had experienced sexual harassment or misconduct, 78 percent said they did not report the incident.

The draft report cited more than 1,800 employee allegations of sexual harassment and sexual misconduct perpetrated by other federal employees from October 2011 to February 2018 across the department’s police agencies, including instances of “surreptitious videotaping in bathrooms, unwelcome sexual advances and inappropriate sexual comments.”