Former legislator was focus of harassment probe when he got job at USC
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Former California Assemblyman Sebastian Ridley-Thomas was the subject of two sexual harassment complaints at the time he stepped down from the Legislature last year, according to documents reviewed by the Los Angeles Times and sources familiar with the matter.
Ridley-Thomas, who denied any wrongdoing, went on a few months later to become a professor of social work and public policy at the University of Southern California.
When the junior legislator, the son of Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, abruptly resigned from the Assembly in December, he cited chronic health problems that were known in Sacramento and had necessitated five surgeries in the previous year.
A university source who
