Sex harassment complaints made to state

Of 3,745 private-sector harassment claims filed from 2010 to 2017 with the State Division of Human Rights, 1,178 were validated. Here is the breakdown on cases that were either validated, handled by courts, rejected for a lack of probable cause, or rejected for a handful of other reasons. Mouse over or select charts for details. And you can read more here about how that may just represent a sliver of all cases.

But more than half of complaints are dismissed

How complaints were handled year by year

Some 2017 cases have not been categorized.

The numbers on year-by-year complaints

VerifiedHandled in courtDismissed/no probable cause Dismissed/other reasons
20101703129788
20111803924249
20121723726356
20131815629654
20141604023059
20151444521345
20161243821233
2017*471810422

* Again, an unknown number of cases filed in 2017 have not been resolved and are thus not categorized in this table or chart.