The case of the alleged sex offense that occurred on Sept. 27 in the Center for Innovation remains open.
On Oct. 10 Clarence Cernal, an administrative assistant for the Citrus College Foundation was arrested on campus for allegations of committing a sex offense against a current Citrus student.
The Glendora Police Department is continuing to withhold an arrest log, incident report, charges and other public records that in most cases are available to the public.
On Oct. 17 a Clarion editor filed a request for information regarding the case. On Oct. 22, Cadet Andres Rodriguez with the Glendora Police Department left a voicemail for the editor, denying the request for information.
On Nov. 14, the editor called the investigating detective on the case, Michael Howell to ask for written documentation of the denial for information.
On Nov. 15, Sgt. Michael Henderson said that he was unaware of the request for information and the denial of said request. He stated he would speak with the records department at the Glendora Police Department to provide written documentation for the denial of the request for information.
As of Nov. 25, there has been no written documentation stating the reason for the denial of the request for information provided by the Glendora Police Department.
On Nov. 14, a Clarion editor sent a California Public Records Law request to Dr. Geraldine M. Perri, Brenda Fink, Robert Sammis, Ben Macias and Christina Garcia to provide the Clarion with all emails, documents, or messages between each person, or group of people, between Sept. 27 and Nov. 10.
Perri is the superintendent president of Citrus, Fink is the Title IV coordinator, Sammis is the director of Human Resources, Macias is the director of Campus Safety and Garcia is the director of The Foundation.
The administrators had 10 days to provide the information requested. If they chose to redact emails or sections of an email, they needed to provide a written explanation, per California Public Records Act section 6255, A and B.
As of Nov. 25, the Clarion has not received any emails, documents or messages requested under the California Public Records Act. The emails, documents and messages were required to be submitted by Nov. 24.
On Nov. 15, a Clarion editor sent an email to Perri, Fink, Sammis, Macias, and Garcia requesting an interview with each person to discuss how the school is handling this alleged sex offense that allegedly occurred on campus.
During his interview on Nov. 20, Sammis said the school has completed its investigation of the incident. No report will be provided by the school, and the actions pertaining to Cernal’s employment at Citrus will proceed to be under review by the Board of Trustees, said Sammis.
A timely warning, issued by Campus Safety to inform students of ongoing crimes on campus, was not issued for this incident because Sammis said there were not any previous incidents that could result in harm to any other students. He also said this incident was a targeted offense against one student.
Garcia responded on Nov. 15 but later did not respond to the Clarion editor to schedule an interview.
As of Nov. 25, one interview was done with Sammis and the Clarion is waiting for responses from Perri, Fink, Macias, and Garcia.
The Clarion is continuing to report on this story and when more information is provided the Clarion will update the story.
