Common Cause Weighs In on JCOPE Decision re: Hoyt

NEW YORK, NY (06/11/2018) (readMedia)-- In response to news that Sam Hoyt was exonerated by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE), Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause/NY, issued the following statement:

"The Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) was not set up to investigate sexual harassment nor is it qualified to do so. The nearly all male body, can not credibly investigate or draw conclusions about what did and did not happen in the Hoyt case. Nor is the victim's lack of cooperation an indication of guilt; more likely a lack of confidence in the process. Unfortunately this leaves the public without a reliable resolution to this persistent problem."