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FILE - In this May 13, 2016 file photo, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, left, speaks beside then-Oakland Chief of Police Sean Whent in Oakland, Calif. The teenage daughter of a police dispatcher at the center of a Northern California sexual misconduct scandal involving two dozen officers has filed suit against one of the law enforcement agencies, her attorney announced Friday, Aug. 18, 2017. The 19-year-old filed the federal lawsuit in San Francisco Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. Whent was forced to resign in June 2016 and the department cycled through two other chiefs in less than a month before the city's top administrator took over management of the police. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)
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In this photo taken May 13, 2013, Sean Whent smiles as he talks with reporters about taking over the Oakland Police Department, in Oakland, Calif. Interim police chief Sean Whent is set to become the department's permanent chief. Whent told officers in a letter that he will be sworn in on Wednesday, May 14, 2014. He will be the department's fourth chief since 2009. Whent, an 18-year veteran, became interim chief last May as part of a major shake-up of management at the beleaguered department. (AP Photo/San Francisco Chronicle, Lacy Atkins)
