Exclusive Interview: Groomed by a badge

Woman speaks out about sex with on-duty Chico PD sergeant
by Dave Waddell | Posted September 29, 2025
One of five women, text messages show, who was engaged in a sexual relationship with an on-duty sergeant. Photo by Dave Waddell.

A Chico woman who believes she was groomed for on-duty sex by a “sex-obsessed” police sergeant says she was “treated like a whore” when questioned about the relationship by a Chico Police Department investigator.

The woman, 38, asked that her name not be disclosed. The sergeant, Michael Williams, was fired early this year after five women reported sexual relations with him while he was on duty in 2023. (See four-year timeline that led to Williams’s firing here.) read more