INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett has signed an executive order requiring all city-county employees to participate in an annual harassment training program following a sexual harassment scandal that has rocked Indianapolis politics for the last several weeks.
The order will take effect immediately and city-county employees who do not participate in the mandatory training will be subject to consequences, including termination. For the remainder of this year, employees will be expected to complete the training on or before Dec. 31.
City: Former Hogsett aide made inappropriate romantic advances with co-workers
The order follows weeks of controversy that have shed a spotlight on Hogsett’s handling of an investigation into one of his former aides, Thomas Cook, who was accused of sexual harassment and coercing a former city employee , Caroline Ellert, and a prior member of the mayor’s campaign team, Lauren Roberts.
According to previous reports , Cook was the center of three separate sanctions between October 2017 and October 2023…