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Sexual harassment can affect an employee’s ability to feel secure at work, communicate with supervisors, or decide how to address the conduct. Depending on the situation, someone may be looking for complaint information, confidential support, documentation tools, or help with stalking, threats, and other related behavior. The Tampa harassment resources below provide several possible starting points.
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Tampa Sexual Harassment Resources
Tampa-area employees can report certain forms of workplace sexual harassment to local, state, or federal agencies. Which agency may accept a complaint can depend on factors such as where the employer is located, the employer’s size, and the laws involved.
- Tampa Office of Human Rights: Receives and investigates qualifying employment discrimination complaints involving employers within Tampa city limits. Its services are free and include complaints involving sexual harassment, sex discrimination, and retaliation.
- Hillsborough County Equal Opportunity Administrator’s Office: Accepts qualifying employment discrimination and harassment complaints involving workplaces in unincorporated Hillsborough County, Temple Terrace, and Plant City.
- EEOC Tampa Field Office: Handles federal workplace harassment and discrimination charges arising in Hillsborough County and other parts of western and northern Florida. The EEOC can be reached at 1-800-669-4000.
- Florida Commission on Human Relations: Accepts qualifying complaints involving sexual harassment, sex discrimination, retaliation, and other unlawful employment practices under Florida law.
- Metro Healthy Communities: Provides affirming behavioral health care, peer programs, and community support at locations throughout the Tampa Bay area, including services for LGBTQ+ individuals who may be coping with harassment or discrimination.
Employees may have the option to use an employer’s internal reporting procedure, file a government complaint, or consult a sexual harassment attorney. Because different processes may carry different requirements and deadlines, employees can seek information before committing to a particular course of action.
Support for Related Abuse or Safety Concerns in Tampa
Sexual harassment may sometimes occur alongside stalking, threats, sexual violence, domestic abuse, or conduct that continues outside the workplace. The following Tampa and Hillsborough County organizations offer crisis support, advocacy, counseling, safety planning, or referrals.
- Crisis Center of Tampa Bay: Provides free, confidential crisis intervention and connections to community services by dialing 211. Its Sexual Assault Services program offers advocacy, counseling support, forensic examinations, and other assistance through 813-264-9961 or the 24-hour helpline at 813-234-1234.
- The Spring of Tampa Bay: Provides safety planning, emergency shelter, counseling, and other services for domestic violence survivors and their children. Its 24-hour hotline is 813-247-SAFE (7233).
- Tampa Police Department Victim Advocacy Unit: Offers crisis intervention, safety planning, referrals, court accompaniment, and other support to victims of violent crime. The unit can be reached at 813-276-3622.
Florida and National Harassment Help Resources
Statewide and national services may be useful when someone needs workplace guidance, peer support, documentation tools, or help responding to conduct that occurs online or across multiple settings.
- Workplaces Respond: Provides resources for workers affected by sexual harassment, stalking, sexual assault, and domestic violence that affect the workplace.
- Right To Be: Offers guidance for responding to workplace, public, and online harassment, along with bystander-intervention training and other harassment-prevention resources.
- HeartMob: Provides peer support for people experiencing online harassment and opportunities for bystanders to help document or respond to abusive conduct.
- VictimConnect Resource Center: Offers confidential support, information, and referrals for victims of harassment, stalking, and other crimes at 1-855-484-2846.
- SPARC: Provides stalking documentation logs, safety-planning materials, victim handbooks, and information for recognizing stalking behavior.
- Cyber Civil Rights Initiative: Operates a free, 24-hour Image Abuse Helpline at 1-844-878-2274 for people affected by nonconsensual intimate images, sextortion, and related online abuse.
- Florida Council Against Sexual Violence: Provides statewide sexual-violence information and supports Florida’s sexual-assault crisis programs.
- RAINN: Operates the confidential, 24-hour National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673 and also offers online and text support.
Preparing to Ask for Help for Sexual Harassment
Employees do not need to prove every part of what happened before contacting a resource or asking questions about sexual harassment. However, preserving available records can help someone describe the conduct and how it affected the workplace.
Relevant information may include emails, text messages, screenshots, internal complaints, performance records, names of witnesses, and notes showing when incidents occurred. Florida employees should generally keep copies somewhere outside an employer-controlled email account, computer, or device.
Who We Are –
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HarassmentHelp.org is a project of Phillips & Associates PLLC, a law firm focused on workplace sexual harassment and employee rights. Created by award-winning sexual harassment lawyers, we provide confidential support and safeguard employees from retaliation to end harassment, recover compensation, and protect their careers.
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We guide you through RGA — Rights, Guidance, and Action, a safe and supportive process designed to help you protect yourself, preserve your career, and stop harassment.
We help you understand what’s acceptable in the workplace, what crosses the line, and how the law protects you from harassment and retaliation.
We offer confidential, nonjudgmental support before any formal action, helping you evaluate the safest and most effective steps for your situation.
You never have to face harassment on your own. We can help you create a plan that feels safe and manageable, and connect you with trusted sexual harassment attorneys who can draft complaints, handle communication for you, or work toward a private resolution.
