The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating a Coast Guard Academy official on allegations of harassment and a hostile work environment after she publicly charged the service with covering up incidents of sexual assault and hiding a subsequent investigation from Congress.
Shannon Norenberg, the school’s sexual assault response coordinator, resigned from her position June 9 via a blog post, excoriating Coast Guard leadership for quashing an investigation into reports of sexual assault and abuse at the institution that spanned decades.
In July, Norenberg reversed course, saying in a public letter to Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan that she would not resign until the service supported the victims of the assaults and abuse and provided “them with the critical medical care and support they urgently need.”
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In an online letter posted July 10, Norenberg said the service has not taken any actions to help victims through outreach, administrative support or accountability.
“Your ongoing and intentional refusal to care for these survivors is not mere neglect; you are perpetuating an ongoing, life-threatening emergency that demands immediate intervention and leadership,” Norenberg wrote. “You seem to believe that you can move forward without reckoning with the past.”
A week after Norenberg retracted her resignation, the…
