School Dist. Lawyer Suspended With Pay, re Claimed Failure to Tell Police of Touch Incident
A school district lawyer in North Carolina has been suspended, with pay, amidst allegations that he may have played a key role in the district’s reported failure to notify law enforcement authorities, as required by state law, of allegations of improper conduct toward a student by a teacher.
Authorities are now investigating an incident months ago in which a teacher allegedly touched a student’s leg, reports the Winston-Salem Journal.
The principal at the school reported the incident to the district’s lawyer, Drew Davis, according to the principal’s lawyer, David Freedman. However, Davis told the principal to do nothing further, Freedman contends.
Davis, declined to comment, the newspaper says.
The school district is changing its reporting policy and from now on principals at schools to which a police officer is assigned will report such incidents directly to the officer.
