What happened to you at a Clovis Unified school was not okay.

Clovis Unified is the district Fresno families move across town for. In June 2025 five women sued it. They say they were abused at Fancher Creek Elementary between 1998 and 2005 and that when they told adults at the school, nothing happened. It is not the district's first time in this position: in 2014 a Freedom Elementary teacher was sentenced to 38 years in federal prison for what he did to a second-grader and filmed. If a teacher or a coach at a Clovis school did something to you, this is about you.

The Fancher Creek case was filed in June 2025 and nothing has been decided. Anyone who was at Fancher Creek, or at another Clovis school, and never came forward can still bring their own.

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This applies to you no matter what

You told a teacher, the office, a counselor, and nothing happened. That is what the five Fancher Creek plaintiffs say happened to them, and it is the part of the case that is about the district rather than one man.
It was a different school. The district is the same, and so are the rules it is supposed to follow when a child says something.
It was the late 1990s, and you are pushing forty. California's deadline runs to age 40, or five years from the day you understood what it did to you. That second clock is the one most people in your position are on, and it is real.
You were in elementary school and don't have the words for it even now. The women who sued were second- and third-graders.
You are still a student, or your kid is. For anything after the start of 2024 there is no deadline at all.
You're a parent, a sibling, a friend asking for someone who can't. Reach out anyway.

The Clovis Unified record: the Freedom Elementary conviction, the Fancher Creek lawsuit, and when

We didn't write what's below. A federal court, the plaintiffs' complaint and the reporters who covered them did, and we link to every one. We don't add to it. The district has not admitted anything in the pending case, and nothing here decides it.

January 2012

Freedom Elementary teacher Neng Yang was arrested over the abuse of a second-grade student, which he filmed. The family later settled with the district's insurer for more than two million dollars. ABC7.

March 2014

In federal court Yang pleaded guilty. The sentence: 38 years. GV Wire.

June 24, 2025

Five women filed suit against Clovis Unified. Fancher Creek Elementary, 1998 to 2005, and a complaint that says staff were told and did nothing about it. The filing landed days after Los Angeles Unified's record settlement over the same kind of failure. EdSource.

We checked this on September 11, 2026, and the newest thing in it is from June 24, 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 Clovis Unified lawsuit

The district. A teacher who abuses a student answers for himself, and Yang is. A district that was told and kept a man near children answers for every child after that. Clovis Unified is a public body, which changes a few things a lawyer will walk you through: no punitive damages against it, but no cap on what a jury can award, and for anything after 2009 no government-claim hurdle before you file. For the Fancher Creek years, before 2009, the claims rules are a question for the lawyer, not for you.

The person who did it is a defendant too, if he is alive and findable. Your case doesn't need his to finish first.

Your deadline: the California statute of limitations for sexual abuse at a public school

Until you turn 40, or five years from the day you understood what it did to you, whichever is later. That is Code of Civil Procedure 340.1, and it is why we ask your birth year. Born in 1987 or later and the door is open on age alone. Born earlier, it turns on discovery, which is a conversation, not a date.

Anything after January 1, 2024: no deadline at all.

Because the district is a public body, one more thing matters: for abuse after the start of 2009 you do not have to file a government claim first. Older than that, and a lawyer needs to look at your facts before anyone promises you anything. That is the Fancher Creek plaintiffs' situation, and they filed.

Your situation still qualifies even if

You never told a soul. Not a spouse, not a sister, nobody.
You told your parents and they took the school's word for it.
You liked him. He was the teacher everybody liked. That is in the Fresno complaints, too.
You've done fine in life and figure that means it didn't count. It counts.
You live somewhere else now. Most of the class of whatever-year does.

Schools covered

Every Clovis Unified campus: Fancher Creek, Freedom, and the district's other elementary schools; its intermediate schools; Clovis, Clovis West, Clovis East, Clovis North and Buchanan high schools; district athletics and after-school programs. A different Fresno County district? The questions still work. Answer them and say where.

Questions people are asking

Can I sue Clovis Unified?

Five women already have, and a decade earlier a family settled with the district's insurer. Whether you can depends mostly on when you were born and when it happened, which is what the questions above sort out.

Fancher Creek, 1998. Isn't that too late?

Maybe not, and the women who filed in 2025 are describing those exact years. The five-years-from-discovery rule exists for people who only understood it as adults. One call settles it.

What kind of lawyer do I need?

A civil lawyer who sues public school districts for institutional sexual abuse, not only the individual. That is the only kind we work with, and the firm we work with takes California cases wherever you live now.

How much does a sexual abuse lawyer cost?

Here, nothing. Every case is on contingency. The lawyer is paid only out of what is recovered, and if nothing is recovered you owe nothing. Not for the call, not for the review, not for the case.

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.

You answer 6 questions. Nothing is filed. Nothing starts.
A survivor calls you, once. Not a robot, not a call center. Someone who has been where you are.
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.