The lawsuit, filed in October, names the property manager and another building employee as defendants. It alleges more than a half-dozen civil violations, including sexual harassment and negligence. The claims have not been proven in court.

Two plaintiffs, Deonna “Dee Dee” Thompson and Chloe Shedrick, say the property manager harassed them after they ended brief consensual relationships with him. The third, Joli Zahra Drevitch, alleges he made an unwanted sexual advance during a Juneteenth party at the building this year.

The property manager denied the allegations in an email, saying the lawsuit does not accurately reflect his account and that he intends to contest the claims through the legal process. The building’s owners and management company did not respond to a request for comment. The second employee named in the lawsuit called the allegation against him “100% false.”

Thompson said she moved to the building last year while seeking a safe home for herself and her child. According to the lawsuit, after she ended her relationship with the manager, he repeatedly called and texted her, tried to get into her apartment and used security cameras to monitor her movements. Thompson said he left flowers at her door the morning after a building Halloween party, and that she moved out in March.

The lawsuit also alleges another employee grabbed Thompson’s buttocks without consent at the party. Thompson said she confronted him at the time. The employee denies the allegation.

Shedrick alleges the manager continued showing up at her door, sometimes intoxicated, after she ended their relationship, and used security cameras to track her and question who she was with. Thompson and Shedrick say they filed incident reports with the management company. The lawsuit alleges those complaints were routed through the same manager they had accused. Thompson said the manager later texted her that he had read her report.

Drevitch, who said she had lived at the building for four years without incident, alleges the manager put an arm around her neck and pulled her face toward his at the Juneteenth gathering. Later, she says, he blocked her in a stairwell after she declined to help him retrieve a drink from an apartment. Drevitch said she reported the incident to upper management and to police. Oakland police said the report remains under investigation.

The tenants’ attorneys say they have photos of messages and emails, as well as call records, that they say show a pattern involving multiple residents. Rahman Popal, managing attorney at The Law Firm for Tenant Rights, said the case raises questions about the building’s response to complaints. The lawsuit alleges management had promised to fire the property manager after Drevitch reported her encounter, but it does not establish whether he was dismissed.

The allegations point to the responsibility of landlords and management companies to provide tenants with a safe place to live and a way to report misconduct without having to go through the person accused, Popal said.