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facts to comply with a trial court order sealing large portions of the record. 3 Gantt also describes an Internal Affairs Division (IAD) investigation into statutory rape committed by an OPD officer. As these facts are irrelevant to Gantt’s claims and our analysis, we do not discuss them. (Meridian Financial Services, Inc. v. Phan (2021) 67 Cal.App.5th 657, 668, fn. 2.)

II. Gantt’s IAD Complaints

In December 2014, Gantt filed an IAD complaint claiming Lieutenant A. created a hostile work environment by publicly disparaging him. The following month, Gantt filed another IAD complaint asserting Lieutenant B.’s August 2014 text messages constituted harassment of, and discrimination against, Gantt because of his age. A year later, in January 2016, Gantt received a supervisory note — a non-disciplinary action documenting a conversation between supervisor and officer — due to Gantt’s failure to respond to roster requests for an operation headed by Lieutenant A. Based on this note, Gantt’s then-supervisor filed an IAD complaint on Gantt’s behalf. He alleged the supervisory note was issued in retaliation for Gantt’s December 2014 complaint alleging Lieutenant A. created a hostile…