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

	Verified	Handled in court	Dismissed/no probable cause	Dismissed/other reasons
2010	170	31	297	88
2011	180	39	242	49
2012	172	37	263	56
2013	181	56	296	54
2014	160	40	230	59
2015	144	45	213	45
2016	124	38	212	33
2017*	47	18	104	22

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