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Aug 1, 2013
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Congress receives scant sexual harassment training
Most of the incidents San Diego Mayor Bob Filner is accused of occurred when he was serving in Congress, whose members receive minimal amount training.
The U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 2, 2013, on the day after a compromise bill passed the U.S. Congress, avoiding the 'fiscal cliff.' The agreement raises taxes on the rich and puts off automatic $109 billion federal budget cuts for two months.
The U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 2, 2013.
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Most of the incidents San Diego Mayor Bob Filner is accused of occurred when he was serving in Congress, whose members receive minimal amount training.

If you work as a supervisor for a private company in California, it’s likely you’ve had several hours of training on how to identify and prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. That’s not the case in Congress. 

The spotlight is now on human resources practices on Capitol Hill because most of the allegations of sexual harassment aimed at San Diego Mayor Bob Filner occurred when he was serving in Congress. But those elected officials receive a minimal amount of training around sexual harassment.

KPCC's Washington Correspondent Kitty Felde reports.