17    A    September 2nd, I believe I contacted the district

        18         attorney concerning this case.

        19    Q    And why did you contact the district attorney?

        20    A    No. 1, I wanted to see -- I have never returned a

        21         statement to anybody before, never had a person

        22         request their statement back.  So I called the

        23         district attorney to find out if it's proper to give

        24         a statement back.

	 1    Q    Okay.  And the statement that you're referring to is

         2         which statement?

         3    A    The statement that Jason Longton and Michelle Harris

         4         took from Melinda Marcotte.

         5    Q    Okay.

         6    A    The district attorney told me it's proper to return

         7         a statement.  I explained to him the situation with

         8         Stacy Crandall being Jason's girlfriend and what I

         9         perceived to be a conflict of interest and that I

        10         didn't feel he should be working on a case that

        11         there is an active personnel complaint against

        12         him -- and now he's investigating a guy who's making

        13         a personnel complaint against him.  So I wanted him

        14         brought up to speed on what I was dealing with.

        15    Q    Okay.  And did anything else occur during that

        16         conversation?

        17    A    Basically, no.  No.

        18    Q    And what did the district attorney say to you, if

        19         anything?

        20    A    He said he was okay with it.

        21    Q    Okay.  Did you discuss the allegations against

        22         Trevor Downie with the district attorney?

        23    A    Yes.

        24    Q    And what did you say to him and what did he say to

         1         you about that?

         2    A    He just listened and I explained that I had a

         3         26-year-old female who signed a statement alleging

         4         that Trevor Downie had touched her and she wanted

         5         her statement back, so she is declining prosecution.

         6         And I had a 15-year-old girl who supposedly made an

         7         allegation to Officer Longton, which I talked to the

         8         parent and the legal guardian of Daughter X, and I

         9         told her to contact the New York State Human

        10         Rights -- or she could contact New York State Labor

        11         Department concerning the child -- the minor child

        12         working late hours.  I told her she could contact

        13         the New York State Human Rights Department to pursue

        14         any type of sexual harassment investigation, or she

        15         could -- another remedy would be through the EEOC,

        16         through the Federal government, to file a complaint

        17         with their commission.  There are Federal laws and

        18         State laws that concern sexual harassment in the

        19         workplace.  They are civil in nature and I explained

        20         to Stacy Crandall how she could go about that, if --

        21                   MR. DUNN:  I'm going to object to a

        22              speech.  It's a simple question.

        23                   HEARING OFFICER:  Sustained.

        24    BY MS. HAYNES:
        
	 1    Q    Just with regard to what you spoke to the district

         2         attorney about, was there anything else to that

         3         conversation?

         4    A    No.

         5    Q    And what, if anything, did the district attorney say

         6         to you about your conversation?

         7    A    He just said, okay.  That's it.










         7    Q    Did Jason Longton ever say to you that he was going

         8         to act to protect the children?

         9    A    Yes, he did.





	 1         to protect the children --

         2    A    I don't doubt his sincerity.





	
        17    A    Well, we would need a statement from her.  We would

        18         look for any eyewitnesses to corroborate her

        19         statement.  We would attempt to get a confession

        20         from the alleged offender.

        21    Q    And did you have a statement from her?

        22    A    She took her statement back, so we had no statement

        23         from her.

        24    Q    Okay.

	 1    A    And the district attorney was made aware of that.