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| A university dean who's still employed despite findings of sexual impropriety. Current and former Georgia state officials tied to a shocking human trafficking probe. And new questions about COVID, now that masks aren't required on airline flights. |
| Good morning, friends of The Short List! It's John, here again with the must reads of the week. |
| 🐶But first: I hope you're looking as good as this little guy: TobyKeith – not the singer but a chihuahua from Florida – broke the record (and the internet) for being the world's oldest living dog at 21 years and change. |
| And now, the news: USA TODAY's Investigations team produced two major stories that were easy picks for best reads of the week. |
| ►'Your boss just grabbed me': In 2016, California State University's Humboldt campus fired a dean, John Lee, after determining he groped and tried to forcibly kiss two female colleagues. Less than six months later, Humboldt leaders reinstated Lee as a full-salaried tenured professor. Lee's career was salvaged by a clause in his contract known as "retreat rights" that guaranteed him a parachute. |
| Retreat rights are supposed to provide a safety net for professors who leave tenured jobs for administration posts, assuring them of a future return to teaching. But because the clauses were written with no caveats for bad behavior, even administrators found responsible for sexual harassment can stay employed. |
| ►'Beyond troubling': Two Georgia labor officials whose jobs involved protecting or advocating for farmworkers have links to one of the largest U.S. human trafficking cases ever prosecuted involving foreign agricultural laborers brought here on seasonal visas. |
| Federal prosecutors say the guest farmworkers were required to pay illegal fees to obtain jobs, had their IDs withheld so they could not leave, were made to work for little or no pay, housed in unsanitary conditions and threatened with deportation and violence. Two workers died in the heat, according to the indictment. Court records say five workers were kidnapped and one of them was raped. |
| ►Do airplanes protect you from COVID? Passengers on planes, trains and other public transportation won't be required to wear masks after a federal judge in Florida voided a national mandate Monday. Airlines had already come out against mask mandates, saying aircraft ventilation systems made transmission of the coronavirus unlikely. USA TODAY's graphics team showed how HEPA ventilation systems on airplanes filter and replenish air to reduce COVID transmission. (The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says its order requiring masking on planes and other public transit is still needed.) |
| Did you get all that? There's more below.👇🏽 Have a great weekend! |
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