The Puerto Rico Office of the Women’s Advocate (OPM) confirmed on Tuesday, November 10, that it dismissed complaints filed by employees of the Department of Correction and Rehabilitation (DCR) against the agency’s former secretary, Francisco A. Quiñones Rivera. The confirmation came after El Nuevo Día sought reaction to a press release from the former official in Governor Jenniffer González Colón’s administration announcing that four complaints against him had been dismissed.
The OPM has not set aside what these women raised.
"The OPM has not set aside what these women raised. The complaints were dismissed because the law establishes other forums to handle this type of claim, not because what they raised was evaluated," said Women’s Advocate Astrid Piñeiro Vázquez. In written remarks she added that "this determination does not constitute an expression on the veracity of the allegations, and the complainants retain all their rights."
Quiñones Rivera said the OPM dismissed four administrative complaints filed between December 16, 2025, and April 23, 2026, by four complainants who are DCR employees and who also went to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). He said the EEOC recently dismissed eight administrative complaints. He identified the OPM complaints as OPM-Q-2026-02, OPM-Q-2026-03, OPM-Q-2026-04 and OPM-Q-2026-05, and said he served as secretary with integrity, having worked for 30 years across the three branches of government and in two towns, including as prosecutor and superior court judge.