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CSU police chief Dexter Yarbrough's leave followed sexual harassment complaint
Aaron Hedge
Issue date: 3/23/09 Section: News
Former CSU Police Chief Dexter Yarbrough was placed on leave pending an investigation into his conduct over winter break on the heels of a sexual harassment complaint filed by a CSUPD employee, according to documents obtained last week by the Collegian.
Interim President Tony Frank mandated in a memo that Yarbrough go on paid leave on Dec. 19, nine days after the complaint was filed, according to a document log released last week by CSU officials.
The former chief resigned on March 6, just days after the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and CSU's Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity released the findings of their university-commissioned probe into his conduct.
Yarbrough did not return a phone call from the Collegian requesting comment on the sexual harassment charges.
CSU officials said none of the records produced by the investigation, which ended Feb. 16, would be released to the public, saying state and university personnel rules prohibit their release and to protect the integrity of future investigations.
In the two and a half months of Yarbrough's leave from his $156,000-a-year position, he garnered about $33,000 from the university in pay.
During that time, a Collegian investigation found that Yarbrough had allegedly falsified police reports and routinely exhibited sexist and intimidating behavior toward his employees and students.
Audio recordings taken by one of his students in his criminal investigations class and turned in to the OEOD illustrate what sources describe as Yarbrough's rogue and potentially illegal police behavior.
In one classroom lecture in spring 2008, Yarbrough advised his students -- including many aspiring police officers -- to provide illicit drugs to informants as payment for information.
"We may decide to give the informant 10 of those (crack cocaine) rocks. OK," Yarbrough said to his criminal investigations class, for which he is additionally compensated as an adjunct instructor.
Interim President Tony Frank mandated in a memo that Yarbrough go on paid leave on Dec. 19, nine days after the complaint was filed, according to a document log released last week by CSU officials.
The former chief resigned on March 6, just days after the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and CSU's Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity released the findings of their university-commissioned probe into his conduct.
Yarbrough did not return a phone call from the Collegian requesting comment on the sexual harassment charges.
CSU officials said none of the records produced by the investigation, which ended Feb. 16, would be released to the public, saying state and university personnel rules prohibit their release and to protect the integrity of future investigations.
In the two and a half months of Yarbrough's leave from his $156,000-a-year position, he garnered about $33,000 from the university in pay.
During that time, a Collegian investigation found that Yarbrough had allegedly falsified police reports and routinely exhibited sexist and intimidating behavior toward his employees and students.
Audio recordings taken by one of his students in his criminal investigations class and turned in to the OEOD illustrate what sources describe as Yarbrough's rogue and potentially illegal police behavior.
In one classroom lecture in spring 2008, Yarbrough advised his students -- including many aspiring police officers -- to provide illicit drugs to informants as payment for information.
"We may decide to give the informant 10 of those (crack cocaine) rocks. OK," Yarbrough said to his criminal investigations class, for which he is additionally compensated as an adjunct instructor.
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Lester L. Washington
posted 3/23/09 @ 1:14 AM MST
SO YARBROUGH IS GONE AND WE WISH HIM MUCH SUCCESS WHERE EVER HE GOES BUT...
Please tell me this, why was there such an aggressive investigation, releasing info to the media, and collaborated production of information during an open investigation into Yarbrough's behavior but when 9 African and African Americans filed a complaint against CSU employees, staff, and administrators here who were sending false and accusatory email around campus re blacks, threatening black students, staff, and employees, failing them in classes, overcharging black in the dining halls,rudely interrupting black students, staff, visitors, and employees who ate in Corbett/Parmalee Dining Halls, and finally running us out of the dining hall, they prepared the investigations for months and then cancelled the hearings just days before it was due? YES, OEOD CANCELLED THEM AND THAT WAS THREE YEARS AGO AND NO ACTION HAS BEEN TAKEN ON THEMEXCEPT RETALIATORY ACTS. (Continued…)
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