What happened to you at CoCoSPA was not okay.

Contra Costa School of Performing Arts was the arts charter on Mitchell Drive in Walnut Creek. It doesn't exist anymore. Its dean was arrested on the last day of April 2025, and two days later he was charged with sexually assaulting a student. In September a seventeen-year-old and her mother sued him and the nonprofit that ran the school, saying a parent had gone to the executive director in January with a bad feeling about him and been waved off. The school itself had been closed since June, its students scattered to other campuses, which is the reason a page like this exists at all.

WatchingThe criminal case is pending, the civil case is months old, and the school is closed. Who answers for a closed charter is the open question, and it gets answered faster when there is a list of names. We are taking them.

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This applies to you no matter what

• It was him, and you were not the student in the charges. He was the climate and culture supervisor, the adult whose whole job was the students. There is no reason to assume one.
• A parent, or you, said something in the office and it went nowhere, which is the whole of the case against the school.
• The school is closed and you assume that means there's nobody to hold responsible. That is a question with an answer, and the answer isn't automatically no.
• You're a parent, a castmate, a friend asking for someone who can't. Reach out anyway.

The CoCoSPA record: the arrest, the charges, the closure, the lawsuit, and when

We didn't write what's below. The Walnut Creek police, the Contra Costa District Attorney, the state's school directory and the local press did, and we link to every one. We don't add to it. The man charged has pleaded not guilty, and nothing here decides his case or the civil one.

We checked this on September 11, 2026, and the newest thing in it is from September 10, 2025. When something new gets filed or decided, it goes in here within 72 hours, with the link.

Who can be held responsible in a Contra Costa School of Performing Arts lawsuit

The nonprofit that ran the school, and its insurers. ChartHouse Public Schools still exists on paper; its last filing shows a small budget and less than nothing in net assets, which is why the insurance policy matters more than the corporation. Beyond that, a lawyer will look at who authorized and oversaw the charter, the county office of education, and whether the law puts any of this on them. We don't know yet. Nobody does, and the sooner there is a list of students, the sooner someone finds out.

The man charged is a defendant too. Your civil case doesn't need his criminal case to finish first.

Your deadline: the California statute of limitations, and why a closed school changes the urgency

Your situation still qualifies even if

• You never told a soul. It was a small school and everyone would have known.
• You liked him. He was the one who listened. That is in the complaint, too.
• You graduated, or the school closed under you, and you'd rather not go back to any of it.
• You aren't sure what happened to you counts next to what's in the charges.
• You live somewhere else now. Most people do, by the time they're ready.

Programs covered

Contra Costa School of Performing Arts, 2730 Mitchell Drive, Walnut Creek, all years, all conservatories, productions, camps and after-school programs run by ChartHouse Public Schools. A different Bay Area arts school? The questions still work. Answer them and say where.

Who sees your form

Kerim Eravci · Survivor Advocate · Not a lawyer

I was a victim, and I waited. Not because I didn't know what happened to me (I knew every day), but because I'd decided it was over, mine to carry, nobody's business. When I finally went looking for a lawyer, the answer came back in two words I'd never thought about: statute of limitations. My time had run out while I was busy getting through it.

What that has cost me since is a long story, and I'll tell you the whole thing in private, if you want it. The short version is the reason my name is on this page: I'm here to help people do what I wish I'd done, which is find out where you stand while the door's still open.

I'm not a lawyer. I read what you send, I call you once, on your terms, and nothing gets filed unless you say so. Ask sooner than I did.

Kerim Eravci is not an attorney. He's a survivor.

What happens next. Three steps, nothing more until you say so.

1. You answer 6 questions. Nothing is filed. Nothing starts.
2. A survivor calls you, once. Not a robot, not a call center. Someone who has been where you are.
3. You decide. You find out your options. If you want to stop there, you stop there.

How this works

ME2 Survivors Alliance protects the heart. Licensed California attorneys do the legal work. We are not lawyers and we don't pretend to be.

You never pay a dollar

Every case is on contingency. There is no charge for the call, the review, or the case. The firm is paid only out of a recovery, and if there is no recovery you owe nothing.