Years of sexual harassment allegations have swirled around a correctional officer-turned-leader of one of Silicon Valley’s biggest civil rights groups. He’s suing the Santa Clara County officials who found them credible.

A county personnel board last August unanimously found NAACP of San Jose/Silicon Valley President Sean Allen engaged in a pattern of sexually harassing, intimidating and bullying a female colleague in the county jails when he was a correctional officer. The employee, whose name is redacted in official records reviewed by San José Spotlight, complained in 2020 that Allen repeatedly leered at her and made unwanted physical advances and comments about her appearance and preferences in men.

The incidents allegedly took place from 2016 to 2018, when Allen was promoted to a su

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