Caldwell Appoints Marc Alexander To Lead Honolulu Housing Office, Victims respond

By Joelle Casteix
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
February 8, 2017

http://www.snapnetwork.org/_caldwell_appoints_marc_alexander_to_lead_honolulu_housing_office_victims_respond

Shame on Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell. He has given a powerful city job to a man who has been sued for for child sexual abuse and who left a previous government job in disgrace because of an unethical affair with an adult woman while he was a priest.

In fact, because secret Diocese of Honolulu personnel documents and other evidence in Marc Alexander’s recently settled civil child sex abuse case have not yet been made public, we do not know the details of what happened, or the scope of the risk that Alexander could pose to adult women and children. Is this a risk that the people of Hawaii should be willing to take? Is this a personnel investment that Hawaii’s taxpayers should make?

We ask that Caldwell at least put this decision on hold until a thorough public review of Alexander’s Diocese of Honolulu personnel file can be completed. We also urge city and county leaders to immediately enact new hiring regulations that ensure that men and women arrested or sued for sexual assault or child sexual abuse are not given city jobs where they have positions of power over vulnerable populations.

http://www.civilbeat.org/2017/02/caldwell-appoints-marc-alexander-to-lead-honolulu-housing-office/

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