The Indianapolis City-County Council meeting Monday night was packed and contentious. The top issue, a $27 million spending package, was overshadowed by the fallout from a sexual harassment investigation.

The Indianapolis City-County Council commissioned independent firm Fisher Philips to conduct an investigation, and its results were revealed Thursday.

The Indiana Democratic Party has adopted a new code of conduct and formed an ethics committee in the wake of several dozen party members demanding action after sexual harassment allegations against another Democratic official.

A new investigative committee questioned the reporting system at its first meeting recently.

The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline counselors help people who may be on the cusp of taking their own life. But some counselors say that they’re also facing verbal and sexual abuse from a small fraction of callers.

Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett says he took appropriate action each time he learned about claims of inappropriate conduct by his former chief of staff Thomas Cook.

The Indianapolis City-County Council passed a proposal to create an investigative committee Monday night. The committee will hire an independent firm to investigate sexual harassment allegations in the Hogsett administration.

As part of an effort to reform Indianapolis’s sexual harassment policies after three women accused Mayor Joe Hogsett’s former chief of staff of harassment and grooming, proposals for new rules and an investigation are working their way through the City-County Council.

In recent weeks stories of sexual harassment and misconduct by Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogett’s former chief of staff have come to light. Former employees Lauren Roberts and Caroline Ellert talk about their experiences with Thomas Cook.

Calls for transparency and accountability are growing after recent local news investigations unveiled misconduct by Thomas Cook, Mayor Joe Hogsett's former right hand man.