Jordan Mead, a Santa Rosa Junior College information technology employee, pled not guilty to allegedly stalking a college vice president and posted his $1 million bail set at his arraignment Friday.
Sonoma County Superior Court Judge René Auguste Chouteau remanded Mead to custody and set his bail at $1 million after he allegedly violated a five-day emergency protective order (EPO).
The EPO was enacted on March 20 and expired on March 25. Under it, Mead was instructed not to contact SRJC Vice President of Finance and Administrative Services Superintendent Kate Jolley in person, on the phone or through any third-party communications.
The district attorney said the high bail amount was necessary as Mead allegedly violated the EPO enacted on the victim’s behalf by sending text messages to a group chat she was part of during the time it was active.
Ten people were added to the group chat, including Mead and Jolley. Mead and his attorney, Ibrahim Agil, said he sent the first message before the EPO was enacted, but it was received on March 21, right after the order was instated.
Mead and Agil said that the second text message in this group chat, sent on March 22, was not intended for Jolley and there was no intent to violate the EPO. Because he had previously blocked Jolley’s number, Mead believed that she would not get any messages that he sent in a group chat she was still included in.
Mead pled not guilty to one felony count of stalking as well as misdemeanor charges of harassment and trespassing on closed lands.
On Wednesday, outspoken Sonoma County resident Adina Flores claimed on her SubStack page that Mead had sent sexually explicit messages to her via Instagram.
Flores posted screenshots of these messages to her Substack page. The messages escalated to threats after Flores made posts to her social media and Substack accusing Mead of harassment and stalking.
“I want to show you my equipment in my garage,” Mead said via Instagram message, along with sexually explicit commentary, offering to get her an Uber to come to his house.
In other messages to Flores, Mead referred to himself as “creepy” and an “accused felony stalker.”
The district attorney mentioned Flores in her argument to hold Mead in jail and the judge agreed.
Mead left the courtroom in handcuffs but managed to post bail on Friday night.
The felony stalking charge was filed after Rohnert Park Police arrested Mead on March 19 outside of Jolley’s home.
The arrest followed an escalation of emails and texts that Mead sent to Jolley.
Mead claims he is a whistleblower who has attempted to expose the school’s illegal routing of 911 emergency calls to SRJC police dispatch instead of the Santa Rosa Police Department.
“I believe going to Kate Jolley’s residence was beneficial to the whistleblowing campaign,” Mead said in text messages exchanged with The Oak Leaf News.
In January Mead sent a series of emails to SRJC faculty and staff containing song lyrics that some deemed threatening. One song in particular contained the “Kill, kill, (oh-oh-oh-oh)” and another contained lyrics relating to shootings, “Shots were fired on the street by the church where we used to meet. Angel down, angel down.”
In an interview with The Oak Leaf News, Mead said that he did not intend to threaten employees with these lyrics, but communicate his feelings through them.
“He [was] my friend and colleague for over 20 years,” Jolley said in a written statement to the court, read aloud by a prosecutor.
Jolley said that she has felt threatened by Mead since his initial arrest.
“I am emotionally and physically exhausted by it all,” Jolley wrote. “I’ve had multiple panic attacks and can’t sleep.”
In her statement Jolley expressed a desire for him not to be released on bail.
Sarah Pew, Santa Rosa Junior College’s senior director of marketing, communications and public affairs, has said that she, Jolley and the district decline to comment at this time.
“The District does not have any additional comments to share on [the] hearing,” Pew said.
The Service Employees International Union filed a restraining order against Mead on March 27, barring him from going on campus until April 22.
Mead’s preliminary hearing is scheduled for April 7 in Sonoma County Superior Court.
Additional reporting by Adair Alvarez Rodriguez and Lauren Kelleher.
Corrections: It was erroneously stated that Jolley felt that Mead’s actions were threatening her life. Corrected at 10:19 p.m. March 29, 2025.
