Attorney says sexual harassment allegations coming from Austin's tech industry

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"My overarching thought is that it's good. It's good for the public," said Dan Ross, partner and founder of Ross Law Group in Austin.

Meaning the more it's talked about the less chance sexual harassment may happen.

Ross has been practicing discrimination law for more than 20 years. Sexual harassment complaints are a common call into his office. Ross says even more so lately. "There has definitely been an uptick no question about it. Over the last 3, 4 months or 6 months," Ross said.

And Ross says his office gets more complaints from certain types of employers in Austin than others. "One of them is the high-tech business. And you would think that the people that are in the high-tech business would be more sensitive to this issue since they're typically younger and have grown up with this awareness of sexual harassment," he said.

Ross says generally there are more men in the tech industry than women.

He says if you're being harassed, don't just ignore it. Follow whatever policy is in the employee handbook for complaints.

And make sure that complaint is in writing.

"We've had many cases of situations where someone has complained but the company for whatever reason never got the complaint or at least that's their position," he said.

With more allegations about different people in the public eye coming out every day, some believe like Melinda on FOX 7's Facebook page: "It's funny how a simple accusation these days can change your life. No charge, no trial, no jury, no verdict." she added "Where is the old 'innocent until proven guilty' mindset? This is our new way of doing. It's scary, and we're going over the edge to a very slippery slope."

Even though Ross says he almost exclusively represents the accuser rather than the accused, he says he's never seen a victim cry out when nothing really happened.

"It takes a lot to complain and people think that that's going to affect them more than the person that they complain about and it would strike me as highly unusual for someone to go to that length to frame someone," Ross said.