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Former Gala Pride and Diversity Center director charged with embezzlement

December 1, 2025

By KAREN VELIE

The San Luis Obispo County District Attorney’s Office announced today it filed grand theft by embezzlement charges against the former director of the San Luis Obispo Gala Pride and Diversity Center.

Prosecutors charged 46-year-old Dustin Robert Colyerworth with four counts of grand theft by embezzlement. Colyerworth allegedly embezzled funds from the Gala Pride and Diversity Center beginning in Nov. 2022 and ending in Oct.  2024.

“Embezzlement of funds is crime that we take seriously,” said District Attorney Dan Dow. “It inflicts real financial harm, but its deeper damage is the broken trust and the lost opportunities when the money intended for our community is diverted into private pockets.”

Colyerworth posted a $20,000 bond with the SLO County Superior Court on Nov. 25, and is not in custody. His arraignment is scheduled for Dec. 10.

This case was investigated by the San Luis Obispo Police Department.

 


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I PRIDE myself in the DIVERSITY of the corruption. CAPSLO loots over $100,000,000/yr in public funds in the name of pride and diversity. Why shouldn’t this guy get his cut?


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Isn’t this man a licensed attorney?


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Classic.


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Starting to believe that every non profit is a grift.


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Yes they are, and that’s a fact. And they add multiple levels of administration for people who need jobs. Organizations like United Way and MUST charities are classic examples of this multi-level marketing. At least I can bitch about the government and get some traction. Complain about charity scams and you’re gang-raping Mother Teresa.


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We’d be surprised but probably no shocked if every so-called “non-profit” and NGO were required to do regular independent audits and release all information and if they fail to lose all their taxpayer funding.


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As an NGO, you can get a 1,000,000 grant and spend $900,000 on salaries, no problem at all. The IRS Form 990N will disclose salaries but not the percentage of administrative costs. I was responsible for 990N’s for a a 501(c) for years; salaries, zero, administrative costs, zero. Professional development and student scholarships, 100%. We even got the donuts and coffee for free from local firms.


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Why don’t we know how much we are talking here?


29

Heh – guess where he got the $20K bond he posted!


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That man has no pride!


66

Well said!!!!


Absolutely no pride!!!!!


38

He is also likely not feeling particularly lighthearted, happy and mirthful.


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