EBar.com – by Heather Cassell
A Santa Clara County correctional officer was arrested July 19 for alleged unlawful consensual sexual activity with a prisoner in November 2006, according to the Santa Clara County Department of Correction.
Correctional officer Jose Perez, 42, was released on $5,000 bail on July 20.
The San Jose Mercury News reported July 21 that the prisoner involved in the case is transgender.
Officials aren’t releasing any personal information about the prisoner.
The Mercury News reported that Perez faces a year in jail if convicted for a misdemeanor charge that he “groped a 30-year-old transgender inmate’s breast over the shirt at Santa Clara County Main Jail” during a three-day period last November. According to the article, another inmate who “spied the pair on the main jail’s sun deck November 5” reported the alleged incident.