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City lifeguard alleges uninvestigated sexual exploitation in aquatics; PARD says third‑party review under way
Summary
A city lifeguard told the Parks and Recreation Board that human resources and departmental investigations failed to fully investigate allegations of sexual exploitation and related misconduct in aquatics. The Parks and Recreation Department said it is conducting third‑party reviews of investigations and a cultural scan of the division.
A longtime City of Austin lifeguard told the Parks and Recreation Board that managers in the aquatics division engaged in sexual relationships, provided drugs to staff and failed to investigate reports from teenage lifeguards.
“Working there was traumatic as a teenager,” lifeguard Scott Cobb said during public citizen communication, and he said internal investigative summaries misstated facts and omitted interviews with named employees. Cobb said two lifeguards mentioned in documents were not located in human resources databases and that alleged incidents were not referred to Austin…
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