Livermore police are asking for help identifying a man after receiving several reports of him approaching women at Plaza 580 Shopping Center and making inappropriate comments. The department says the reported encounters occurred inside stores and in the parking lot near Las Positas Road and First Street. In its public appeal, police described the man as in his 30s, with balding hair, and said he asked women for personal information.
Police are asking anyone who had a similar encounter or has information that could help investigators to call the department’s anonymous tip line at (925) 371-4790. The department has not announced an arrest or identified a suspect in the reports.
A separate Livermore case
The Plaza 580 reports are distinct from a 2022 case elsewhere in Livermore. KRON4, reporting by Bay City News on Jan. 23, 2022, reported that police had arrested a man on sexual battery charges in connection with attacks on women jogging on Vasco Road near East Avenue. That case involved a different location and reported conduct; the available information does not link it to the current investigation.
National survey context
Public-space harassment also appears in national survey data, though those findings cannot establish what happened at Plaza 580. Tulane University News reported that a 2024 survey of more than 3,300 U.S. adults found 73% of women and 24% of men said they had experienced sexual harassment in public places. The survey offers broad context, not evidence about these reports or their outcome.
