Sex Discrimination: DEA's Handling of Sexual Harassment and Other
Complaints (Letter Report, 03/04/94, GAO/OSI-94-10).

Employees at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) are reluctant to
use the agency's complaint process to deal with sexual harassment
because they fear reprisal from managers and because they believe that
investigators lack objectivity, sensitivity, and confidence. GAO found
that Office of Professional Responsibility investigators sometimes did
not obtain all corroborating evidence when looking into complaints and
that differences in the rights and remedies afforded by equal employment
opportunity and Office of Professional Responsibility investigations
were not communicated to the employees. Finally, although training on
the agency's sexual-harassment-complaints process was made available to
all employees, many persons said that they had received no specialized
training. GAO believes that DEA will continue to have problems with
sexual harassment unless it changes the way in which it handles sexual
harassment allegations. GAO summarized this report in testimony before
Congress; see: Sex Discrimination: Agencies' Handling of Sexual
Harassment and Related Complaints, by Richard C. Stiener, Director of
the Office of Special Investigations, before the Subcommittee on
Oversight and Investigations, House Committee on Post Office and Civil
Service. GAO/T-OSI-94-22, Mar. 8, 1994 (seven pages).

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 REPORTNUM:  OSI-94-10
     TITLE:  Sex Discrimination: DEA's Handling of Sexual Harassment and 
             Other Complaints
      DATE:  03/04/94
   SUBJECT:  Sex discrimination
             Sexual harassment
             Fair employment programs
             Law enforcement agencies
             Women
             Employment discrimination
             Employee promotions
             Investigations by federal agencies
             Administrative remedies
             Civil rights law enforcement

             
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