San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019m in a position of having to prove a negative. It\u2019s not enough to be found not guilty or having a case dropped.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Oakland](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/94612-teacher-jeremy-taylor-fired-122550870.jpg\")
Oakland School for the Arts, 530 18th St, Oakland, California. Google Maps<\/p>\n
He added in legal documents: \u201cEveryone at OSA and in particular its administration understood that the school would benefit from an opportunity \u2014 any opportunity \u2014 to recast itself as taking a proactive stand against sexual violence.\u201d<\/p>\n
The girl claimed to friends in 2021 that Taylor had sexual relations with her around 10 times when he was her ninth-grade math teacher and he was in his 20s.<\/p>\n
The friend then informed cops without telling her, who then got in touch with the school, which had only been founded two years prior to the time of the allegations.<\/p>\n
When officers contacted Jane Doe she said she had confided in Taylor about her mom\u2019s substance abuse problems and he had helped her contact Child Protective Services.<\/p>\n
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She claimed while she was being raised in a foster home she \u201clatched\u201d on to her teacher and he took her away from the school at lunch times.<\/p>\n
She alleged they started having sexual relations on pillows in a reading corner of his classroom, before progressing to afternoon trips to his apartment.<\/p>\n
Cops and the school cited emails between the pair in their evidence. She wrote in one: \u201cI got a new phone and it\u2019s a flip phone!!! \ud83d\ude42 so i\u2019m really happy about that, and i get to text message which i didn\u2019t get to do with my old phone.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not coming to school tomorrow\u2026i have to go to php,\u201d she went on, describing a treatment program for her eating disorder. \u201cBut maybe thursday.\u201d<\/p>\n
He replied: \u201cWasn\u2019t your old phone just a regular phone? So, doesn\u2019t this mean that you now have a cell phone (which sounds even more exciting than whether or not it flips)? Either way, good news for you \ud83d\ude42 Is it pink to match your iPod? I\u2019ll be here Thursday.\u201d<\/p>\n
The girl claimed their messages and calls went late into the evening, though her adoptive mother was unsure when questioned if the number on her phone bills was Taylor\u2019s.<\/p>\n
An external investigation by the school found her claims were credible. Taylor handed himself into cops on May 27, 2022, after a warrant was issued for his arrest.<\/p>\n
He was charged in the July with one felony count of a lewd act with a minor aged 14 or 15. What followed was a three year battle to clear his name.<\/p>\n
Finally, in March 2025 the DA dropped the case \u201cbased on the review of the discovery, based on conversations with prior DA\u2019s assigned to this case for many years.\u201d<\/p>\n
His lawsuit says: \u201cHad even the most basic investigative practices been followed, OSA would have easily discovered the truth \u2014 that Mr. Taylor was the victim of a malicious false accusation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teacher at a famous California school is suing his former employer for millions of dollars after he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[7,1846,4182,143,145,144,7701,3586],"class_list":["post-199972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-california","tag-lawsuit","tag-metro","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-sexual-misconduct","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Exterior view of the Oakland School for the Arts building. Google Maps<\/p>\n