California

The Education Department's civil rights office found USC failed for years to respond to patient complaints of sexual harassment by campus gynecologist George Tyndall.

Labor Department secured a nearly $3.8 million judgment against a California poultry processor over child labor and wage violations.

A federal judge found UCLA did not dispute that Jewish students were excluded from parts of campus during the 2024 encampment; the university is now under a 15-year consent injunction.

House Ethics Committee issued a public letter of reproval to Rep. Judy Chu for interfering with its investigation, and found no evidence she knew staff did campaign work on official time, 2014

U.S. Office of Special Counsel found HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra violated the Hatch Act in remarks supporting Sen. Alex Padilla's election; Becerra called the violation inadvertent, 2023

House Ethics Committee announced it is reviewing allegations that Rep. Jimmy Gomez may have engaged in sexual misconduct, including inappropriate sexual contact with a House staffer; no finding has been issued, 2026

DOJ says it has reasonable cause to believe California's women's prisons failed to protect women from staff sexual abuse

Contra Costa prosecutors charged school board trustee Jeff Belle in 2015 over a degree claim in his 2014 candidate statement; the case ended without a conviction, dismissed in 2017 after community service