WE'RE MONITORING THAT, BUT WE'LL MOVE ON TO NEW DEVELOPMENTS RELATED TO THE ANTIOCH POLICE TEXTING SCANDAL THAT BROKE LAST YEAR. SINCE THEN, MORE THAN 40% OF THE ANTIOCH POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN PUT ON PAID LEAVE. >> AND NOW WE'RE LEARNING ONE OF THE SERGEANTS NAMED IN THE FBI INVESTIGATION WILL BE RETURNING TO WORK. ABC SEVEN NEWS REPORTER ANSER HASSAN HAS THE LATEST. >> ANTIOCH RESIDENT FRANK STERLING'S 2009 ENCOUNTER WITH THEN ANTIOCH POLICE OFFICER RICK HOFFMAN LEFT HIM HOSPITALIZED. HE WAS AWARDED COMPENSATION AS PART OF A SETTLEMENT ALLEGING EXCESSIVE USE OF FORCE. LAST YEAR, HOFFMAN, NOW A SERGEANT, WAS PUT ON PAID LEAVE AFTER BEING LINKED TO THE POLICE TEXTING SCANDAL. NOW HE'S COMING BACK. >> WELL, DEFINITELY. WE'RE ALL VERY UPSET THAT RICK HOFFMAN HAS COME BACK. HE'S KNOWN FOR COMMITTING VIOLENCE IN THE COMMUNITY. HE'S MENTIONED IN THE TEXT MESSAGE SCANDAL, LAUGHING AT VIOLENCE. >> LAST YEAR, AN FBI INVESTIGATION UNCOVERED A RACIST TEXTING SCANDAL AT THE ANTIOCH POLICE DEPARTMENT. DOCUMENTS FROM THE FBI AND THE CONTRA COSTA COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE SHOW RICK HOFFMAN ON A SERIES OF TEXT CHAINS THAT USED RACIST, MISOGYNISTIC AND HOMOPHOBIC LANGUAGE AND MEMES. >> IF YOU SENT A MESSAGE, RECEIVED A MESSAGE, LAUGHED AT A MESSAGE. IF YOU DIDN'T REPORT THESE MESSAGES, WE DON'T NEED YOU. IN ANTIOCH, ABC7 NEWS HAS LEARNED THAT AN INVESTIGATION WAS CONDUCTED WHICH CLEARED HOFFMAN TO RETURN. >> THAT COULD INCLUDE A DEMOTION IN RANK, BUT DETAILS OF THE INVESTIGATION HAVEN'T BEEN MADE PUBLIC. >> THEY'RE BACK ON THE FORCE. SO WERE THERE NO FINDINGS IN THIS INVESTIGATION? WHY HASN'T THERE BEEN ANY, DISCLOSURE ON THAT? WHY ISN'T IT THE PUBLIC BEEN MADE AWARE AND WHY HAS, YOU KNOW, IT IT FELT LIKE A SECRET. >> ANTIOCH POLICE COMMISSIONER DEVIN WILLIAMS SAYS HE'S TROUBLED BY THE LACK OF TRANSPARENCY DESPITE BEING ON LEAVE. HOFFMAN IS STILL LISTED AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE ANTIOCH POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION. DOCUMENTS FROM THE CONTRA COSTA COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE SHOW HOFFMAN WAS THE RANKING OFFICER WHO CLEARED SOME OFFICERS FOR USE OF FORCE. THE FBI LATER INDICTED OFFICERS IN THOSE SAME CASES. WILLIAMS SAYS HE'S CONCERNED ABOUT HOW THIS WILL INFLUENCE NEW RECRUITS. THE CULTURE RIGHT OF THE DEPARTMENT. >> OUR NEW POLICE CHIEF, ADDINGTON, IS SAYING THAT HE WANTS TO HAVE A CULTURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY, BUT THAT HASN'T BEEN SHOWN IN THE PAST. SO HOW CAN YOU ENSURE THAT THIS WILL BE THE NEW WAY GOING FORWARD? >> IN AN EMAIL TO ABC7 NEWS, INTERIM POLICE CHIEF BRIAN ADDINGTON WRITES, I CAN CONFIRM THAT OFFICER RICK HOFFMAN IS EMPLOYED AS AN ANTIOCH POLICE OFFICER, A SOURCE TELLS ABC SEVEN NEWS. IT WAS ADDINGTON WHO MADE THE DECISION TO BRING BACK HOFFMAN. COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS NOW WANTS TO CALL HOFFMAN BEFORE THE POLICE COMMISSION. >> WE'RE NOT HERE TO, YOU KNOW, HAVE A HEARING, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO HAVE SOME SOME, SOME ANSWERS. WE WANT TO SEE IF THIS IF IT'S HIS CHARACTER HAS CHANGED, RIGHT. FOR THE
