Investigating Harassment Complaints —Fiorenza

Assembling the facts. Keep a time line of the events that took place during the incident. This will help the investigator better analyze the testimony of the complaining witness, as well as the other witnesses, and help further refine his/her questions. If the timing of events varies among the witnesses, the witnesses are either mistaken or lying. The time line also helps the investigator to reconstruct what happened in greater detail.