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for taking more than six years to address concerns about workplace and sexual harassment.
“I am relieved to see some forward motion on this case after six very long, heartbreaking years,” Santos said in an interview near the Senate building after the historic apology. She has previously not made her name public.to help Senate staff, who serve at the pleasure of senators, by drawing attention to the power imbalance between senators and their employees.
“I still feel that it’s a closed-door clandestine approach to solving a very serious issue,” she said. Her experience in Meredith’s office, including testimony of unwanted kissing and touching, was detailed in the“Have I arrived to a final destination? Not yet,” she said. “Do I trust this new process? I don’t know.”
She was discouraged from filing a formal complaint then because she was not confident the Senate’s anti-harassment policy at the time was strong enough to protect her.
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