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Ep. 29 | Truth & Lies in Peoria Unified w/Heather Rooks · The Myth of Education Podcast

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  SPEAKER_03: Hey, Peoria Police Department,
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  SPEAKER_03: since we have such a good partnership,
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  SPEAKER_03: we have evidence, we have information we probably should share with you.
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  SPEAKER_03: We're just a little nervous about doing it because we don't want to break,
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  SPEAKER_03: you know, legal process.
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  SPEAKER_03: But it didn't happen that way.
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  SPEAKER_03: Why did they need to do a second search warrant,
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  SPEAKER_03: shut down the whole district,
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  SPEAKER_03: kick everybody out,
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  SPEAKER_03: put crime scene tape around the whole building, For an entire week.
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  SPEAKER_00: What else did they find?
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  SPEAKER_00: I thought we already gave them everything in the first search warrant.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why did they need to do a second one?
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  SPEAKER_03: This statement that he is saying is a PR statement.
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  SPEAKER_03: We are supposed to be protecting kids.
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  SPEAKER_03: I don't need no PR person telling me what to say because I know the truth and
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  SPEAKER_03: the truth is going to come out.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have with me today Heather Rooks.
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  SPEAKER_01: Back when we were audio only, and I'll link to that episode in the show notes.
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  SPEAKER_01: We here at The Myth of Education want to thank Heather for her courage and tenacity
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  SPEAKER_01: to stand on truth in supporting Peoria students, families, and educators.
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  SPEAKER_01: So welcome back, Heather, to The Myth of Education Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yes, thank you, Tiffany.
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  SPEAKER_03: And just as you said,
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm just speaking today as Heather,
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  SPEAKER_03: and I don't have any PR person hidden behind the screen coaching me on what to say.
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  SPEAKER_03: So today I'm just speaking as Heather.
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  SPEAKER_01: Beautiful, beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_01: Earlier this year, you were voted out of your position as board president.
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  SPEAKER_01: And one of the narratives around that focuses on a breach of protocol for going to the media.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then Maricopa County,
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  SPEAKER_01: after the leftist majority board,
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  SPEAKER_01: voted to table that third party investigation into mandated reporting.
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  SPEAKER_01: Can you let the audience know specifically what protocol did you break by going to
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  SPEAKER_01: the media and the attorney and Yeah,
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  SPEAKER_00: so we had a board meeting where myself as president and Becky Proudfit was the clerk
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  SPEAKER_00: at the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: We had put on the agenda together to have a third party investigation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was very clear.
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  SPEAKER_00: It didn't say who would be doing the third party investigation.
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  SPEAKER_00: It didn't say it on the agenda.
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  SPEAKER_00: It would be.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was just,
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  SPEAKER_00: should we have a third-party investigation looking at failure to report
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  SPEAKER_00: under Arizona's mandatory reporting laws?
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  SPEAKER_00: There was concerns that we both had, myself and Mrs. Proudfit.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we put that on the agenda.
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  SPEAKER_00: Afterwards,
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  SPEAKER_00: I had found out that our superintendent at the time, Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Casey Summers,
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  SPEAKER_00: was calling Becky Proudfit the day of the board meeting and trying to talk her
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  SPEAKER_00: into not having a third party investigation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so when that meeting did occur...
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  SPEAKER_00: It was a bit confusing for me because Mrs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proudfit was playing this part of,
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know why this is on the agenda,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I think we need to wait for the investigation to be done.
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  SPEAKER_00: And at that point, I had to say something because I'm like, I'm sorry.
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  SPEAKER_00: We both worked on this together, the board president and the clerk.
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  SPEAKER_00: They worked together on putting things on the agenda.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she had a lot of concerns surrounding the football program at Centennial High School.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was her biggest concern.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mine was I wanted to know why was nobody seeing anything?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why did nobody at that school adult-wise say anything?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because I had really read that police report yesterday.
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  SPEAKER_03: Over 200 pages.
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  SPEAKER_03: And they had interviewed multiple students from Centennial.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the students all said the same thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everyone saw the way that Haley was behaving.
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  SPEAKER_00: Haley Beck was one of the teachers.
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  SPEAKER_00: That she was flirty and fixated on the high school boys.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was one of the direct quotes from the police report in a student interview.
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  SPEAKER_00: That there would be boys that would hang out in her classroom when they were not supposed to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the students all said the same thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everything is swept under the rug.
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  SPEAKER_00: And to me, that's what stood out.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wanted to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: We need to have an investigation into why are
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  SPEAKER_00: the students all seeing these behaviors of Haley Beck,
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  SPEAKER_00: but none of the adults are seeing it?
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  SPEAKER_00: And did anybody actually see it and not report it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because we're talking about the safety of children in these schools.
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  SPEAKER_00: So during that discussion,
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  SPEAKER_00: our board attorney contacted Maricopa County attorney Rachel Mitchell
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  SPEAKER_00: and had asked her,
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  SPEAKER_00: would it be okay for the board to do a third-party investigation into the failure
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  SPEAKER_00: to report aspect?
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  SPEAKER_00: Would it at all tamper with the investigation of the two teachers,
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  SPEAKER_00: Angela Berlaka and Haley Beck,
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  SPEAKER_00: with the Peoria Police Department and where they were at in their investigation?
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  SPEAKER_00: She had said it out in the public.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rachel Mitchell herself said there would be no issue with the board conducting
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  SPEAKER_00: a third-party investigation into failure to report.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anybody can go back and watch that meeting.
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  SPEAKER_00: But at the time,
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  SPEAKER_00: three board members,
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  SPEAKER_00: Melissa Ewing, Becky Proudfit, and Jeff Dupont, Jeff Tobey wanted to table the vote.
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  SPEAKER_00: Myself and Janelle Bowles did not want to table the vote.
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  SPEAKER_00: At the time,
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  SPEAKER_00: Jeff Tobey had stated that there was over five or six investigations into failure
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  SPEAKER_00: to report and that there There was no need for one,
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  SPEAKER_00: that we should wait until the investigation into the two teachers with
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  SPEAKER_00: the police department is finished before we do anything else.
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  SPEAKER_00: But at the time he was saying,
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  SPEAKER_00: everybody say that there is no failure to report conducting internal investigations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Investigations with our HR,
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  SPEAKER_00: the attorneys that we had looked into it,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Arizona Department of Education,
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  SPEAKER_00: and then finally they keep using the same quote from April of this year that
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  SPEAKER_00: the Peoria Police Department put out a statement that there was no failure to do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that
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  SPEAKER_03: was tabled.
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  SPEAKER_03: I still had concerns.
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  SPEAKER_03: I had concerns as a board member because I just didn't understand what was going on.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm like, why is nobody looking at this?
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  SPEAKER_03: Why is nobody questioning this?
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  SPEAKER_03: It's not making sense,
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  SPEAKER_03: this police report,
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  SPEAKER_03: not against the police, but the parts that were being investigated.
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  SPEAKER_03: I just didn't understand why was nobody else at Centennial interviewed?
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  SPEAKER_00: You got front office staff.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have football staff.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have other teachers that were surrounding Haley Beck and Angela Berlaka.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why was nobody else interviewed in that process?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, I didn't understand it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I was concerned again about the students and what they were saying in
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  SPEAKER_00: that police report.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was my driving factor is I am not going to ignore what the students are saying,
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  SPEAKER_00: that they all saw it, everybody knew about it, and things are swept under the rug.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't want things swept under the rug this time.
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  SPEAKER_00: I thought, okay, what other avenues is there?
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  SPEAKER_03: What can I do?
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  SPEAKER_03: So as a mom,
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  SPEAKER_03: I sought to file a request to Rachel Mitchell,
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  SPEAKER_03: the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are in charge after the Peoria Police Department hands over everything in an investigation.
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  SPEAKER_00: They handle everything else from after that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I drafted up pages that I submitted.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wanted her to focus on and look into from an aspect of the police report.
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  SPEAKER_00: I only took the 200-page police report and things that stood out to me
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  SPEAKER_00: that I was hoping she'd be able to have it looked into.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I typed it up, emailed it to her, and I signed it as a Peoria mom because I am a mom.
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  SPEAKER_00: My kids are in this district.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if there are adults in this district that were not doing what they were supposed
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  SPEAKER_00: to do,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is report when there is something going on with a child,
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  SPEAKER_00: So if there is someone who is not doing what they are supposed to be doing, like...
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  SPEAKER_00: I have a concern.
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  SPEAKER_03: And Rachel Mitchell emailed back.
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  SPEAKER_03: She had said, you know, I received your six emails.
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  SPEAKER_03: The six emails were the pages in the police report because there was over 200 pages
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  SPEAKER_03: in that police report.
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  SPEAKER_03: And she said she was going to forward this to the chief of Peoria Police Department
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  SPEAKER_00: to start conducting an investigation into failure to report.
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  SPEAKER_00: The board voted me out as president.
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  SPEAKER_00: They tried to say I broke a policy because I circumvented the board's majority vote
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  SPEAKER_00: to table a third party.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I didn't go to a vendor.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't go to a company.
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  SPEAKER_00: I went directly to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office to ask for someone
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  SPEAKER_00: to investigate whether or not there was a failure to report in this situation with
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  SPEAKER_00: the two teachers from Centennial High School.
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  SPEAKER_01: So as a point of clarification,
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  SPEAKER_01: did the police department put out that statement and say that there was no problem
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  SPEAKER_01: with mandated reporting?
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  SPEAKER_03: In April of 2026, they did.
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  SPEAKER_03: They said that at the time, the evidence that they had, there was no failure to report.
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  SPEAKER_03: But again, look at the events from April to now.
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  SPEAKER_03: My opinion here is I think that the police were not given all of the information
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  SPEAKER_03: from district leadership.
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  SPEAKER_03: And They're now trying to gather evidence,
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  SPEAKER_03: hence the two search warrants, to see what is going on here.
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  SPEAKER_03: So they might have put that out in April, but look at where we're at now.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now they've come out and said,
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  SPEAKER_03: yes, we are now conducting an investigation into failure to report.
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  SPEAKER_03: I know it's been mentioned.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have a hard time with that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's just for sakes say that that's true.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't think it is, but let's just say it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they, the district department, Allegedly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Allegedly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Allegedly.
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  SPEAKER_03: But if they did that, okay, say, hey, we can't give up this information because of FERPA.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's what I keep hearing is because of FERPA and the Title IX investigation.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay, when you have a child in the school system that might be having abuse from
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  SPEAKER_03: a teacher, abuse from...
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  SPEAKER_03: Their parents at home, there's suspicion of it by an adult in the school system.
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  SPEAKER_03: That adult is by law supposed to report it to DCS and to the police department.
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  SPEAKER_03: What happens when they report that to DCS?
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  SPEAKER_03: DCS and the Police Department.
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  SPEAKER_03: They have to give a name of the child.
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  SPEAKER_03: They have to give the information of the child so that DCS and
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  SPEAKER_03: the Police Department can conduct an investigation to make sure
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  SPEAKER_03: that their child is safe.
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  SPEAKER_00: If the state leadership had any evidence of a child
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  SPEAKER_00: or multiple children being abused,
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  SPEAKER_00: allegedly,
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  SPEAKER_00: if they had any type of it and they didn't hand it over during
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  SPEAKER_00: a criminal investigation, help me understand that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why are we allowed to,
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  SPEAKER_00: under Arizona mandatory reporting laws,
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  SPEAKER_00: give information of a student's identity,
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  SPEAKER_00: their name and everything under FERPA to the police in DCS?
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  SPEAKER_00: That doesn't make any sense to me.
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  SPEAKER_03: Did the district leadership ask the police department,
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  SPEAKER_03: hey, can you come do a second search warrant?
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  SPEAKER_03: Because I don't think we gave you everything in the first search warrant.
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  SPEAKER_03: Can you do a second one?
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  SPEAKER_03: And can you also come and shut down our district building and block it off
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  SPEAKER_00: with crime scene tape?
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  SPEAKER_00: Pull up with a Peoria Police Command Center truck and kick everybody out of the building.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go through all the, you know, computer systems and dig through everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can you please do that?
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  SPEAKER_00: And we're going to send an email to parents and the community
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  SPEAKER_00: that we are disciplined Disappointed in Peoria Police Department
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  SPEAKER_00: for their second search warrant that we asked them to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like,
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't understand why people are saying that
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  SPEAKER_03: and thinking the community is going
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  SPEAKER_03: to buy into that.
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  SPEAKER_03: Because that sounds like a bunch of garbage to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: It sounds like garbage to me, too.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't understand why anybody,
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  SPEAKER_01: especially somebody who works for the police department,
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  SPEAKER_01: would think that a criminal search warrant is beneath FERPA.
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  SPEAKER_01: I find that very strange, the mindset.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, your colleague, who I think is a turncoat, Jeff Tobey, took the board presidency, okay?
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  SPEAKER_01: This was what he wanted the whole time.
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  SPEAKER_01: Soon afterwards, to me, it looks like the district just went straight to hell, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So, we've got lawsuits now dealing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Dealing with mandatory reporting that are about to pop off from former students
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  SPEAKER_01: and families of the district.
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  SPEAKER_01: We had the police raid, ongoing investigation into the alleged perpetrators at Centennial.
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  SPEAKER_01: The PD raid,
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  SPEAKER_01: this is my understanding,
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  SPEAKER_01: it occurred because the district attorney filed a motion
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  SPEAKER_01: to have those criminal search warrants dismissed.
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  SPEAKER_01: Did you see these warrants?
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  SPEAKER_03: I as a board member have seen the search warrants.
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  SPEAKER_03: Every board member has seen them.
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  SPEAKER_03: I have not seen what was actually taken.
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  SPEAKER_03: Normally,
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  SPEAKER_03: when you have a search warrant,
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  SPEAKER_03: there is a receipt given from the police department to that entity
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  SPEAKER_03: of what Everything that they came in and took,
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  SPEAKER_03: they print out like a receipt so that you have a copy of it.
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  SPEAKER_03: I have not seen that receipt.
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  SPEAKER_03: I have seen the two search warrants.
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  SPEAKER_03: I think that's an important thing to also note is
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  SPEAKER_03: that each board member has seen what is in those search warrants.
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  SPEAKER_01: So on the Mike Broomhead interview,
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  SPEAKER_01: Toby claimed that the decision not to comply with those search warrants was
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  SPEAKER_01: a decision that the district made.
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  SPEAKER_01: I just want to say before I play this clip that in a 12 News interview,
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  SPEAKER_01: the chief communications officer,
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  SPEAKER_01: Officer Danielle Airy,
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  SPEAKER_01: she publicly stated that without a vote to waive attorney-client privilege or
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  SPEAKER_01: a court order to comply with a warrant,
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  SPEAKER_01: their default was to comply with the federal privacy laws,
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  SPEAKER_01: FERPA, as we've been talking about.
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  SPEAKER_01: So let me play this clip and then I want to get your reaction to it.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so to that point about the cooperation with Peoria PD,
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  SPEAKER_02: it's been reported that, Mr. Tobey,
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  SPEAKER_02: you are the one that requested that your attorney try to limit the search warrants.
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  SPEAKER_02: So is that full cooperation if you are trying to limit the search warrants?
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  SPEAKER_02: And why did you try to limit the search warrants?
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's a fair question.
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  SPEAKER_02: So the misinformation on that part was I proofread something that was drafted by legal.
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  SPEAKER_02: So our superintendent is the de facto executive of the district and is responsible
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  SPEAKER_02: for making those decisions.
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  SPEAKER_02: As the board president, I am the legal liaison with the board and the attorney.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so it's my role to kind of have that interface with the attorney and the superintendent.
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  SPEAKER_02: So it wasn't my direction at all.
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  SPEAKER_02: It was the direction of the district.
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  SPEAKER_02: And it was really to ask a couple questions of the court that issued the warrant itself.
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  SPEAKER_02: What if we needed more time to produce those documents
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  SPEAKER_02: because we only had those five working days?
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  SPEAKER_02: How do we handle attorney-client privilege?
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  SPEAKER_02: And how do we handle things according to FERPA, which student privacy?
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  SPEAKER_02: And the way it was reported is that you were trying to step in
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  SPEAKER_02: and limit what they could do with those search warrants because of FERPA and because
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  SPEAKER_02: of attorney-client privilege.
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  SPEAKER_02: Were you trying to limit their access or were you trying to get clarification as
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  SPEAKER_02: to what your responsibilities were?
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  SPEAKER_02: Absolutely not limiting.
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  SPEAKER_02: We've given everything that we are able to at this point that's in our possession to
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_02: an ongoing basis even recently.
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  SPEAKER_02: So we've had a long relationship with the Peoria Police Department.
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  SPEAKER_02: In fact, they actually initially asked for this information via the FOIA public record request.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, a lot of the stuff that they were asking is not legally allowed to be released via FOIA.
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  SPEAKER_02: So we actually went to Peoria Police in that partnership and said,
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  SPEAKER_02: we need some legal process to give you what you want,
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  SPEAKER_02: whether that's a subpoena or a search warrant.
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  SPEAKER_02: And they chose a search warrant.
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  SPEAKER_01: The search warrant is the legal document that the district needs in order to hand
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_01: over that information.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I also want to say that Mike Broomhead, he's so nice.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was kind of softball-y.
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  SPEAKER_01: Heather, your thoughts on what you just saw?
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  SPEAKER_03: For starters,
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  SPEAKER_03: he's claiming that he did not tell the attorney to file that motion,
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  SPEAKER_03: okay, that it was the district's decision.
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  SPEAKER_03: At the time,
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  SPEAKER_03: I didn't know that that motion was filed as a board member until after it was filed.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_03: So if it was a district decision using the board's attorney,
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_03: Susan Siegel, that should have been shared with the board.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_03: We should have been updated before that happened.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_03: There should have been an emergency executive session that should have occurred
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_03: to discuss all of that.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_03: But he made that decision.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_03: The news reached out to Daniel Airy,
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_03: our PR person,
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_03: and she clearly stated that the board did not
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_00: need a vote for that motion
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_00: to be filed,
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_00: and she said that it was a decision made by
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_03: By President Jeff Tobey and Mrs.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_03: Talia Vicentiner, the interim superintendent with the board attorney, Susan Siegel.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_03: So I love how he puts out there misinformation that is actually put out
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_03: by our spokesperson, our PR spokesperson.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_03: I have a very hard time believing that.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_03: Here's what really gets me, okay?
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_03: This investigation has been going on almost a year into these two teachers.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_03: If we had information or evidence...
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_03: Why did we not ever turn it over to the police?
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_03: Why did it have to take the police coming and saying,
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_03: hey, we need to do a public record request?
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_03: Whoops, you can't have that.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_03: Sorry, you have to go and do a search warrant because of the legal process.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_03: We can't give you stuff that is evidence of a
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_00: crime committed to a child.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_00: We can't tell you what crimes were committed on kids.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_00: We can't give you that evidence.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry, you're going to have
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_03: to do a search warrant.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_03: If we had evidence that we didn't turn over to the police this entire time,
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_03: we are supposed to be protecting kids.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_03: If there is evidence that we have, hey,
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_03: Peoria Police Department,
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_03: since we have such a good partnership, we do have evidence.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_03: We have evidence.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_03: We have information we probably should share with you.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_03: We're just a little nervous about doing it because we don't want to break,
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_03: you know, legal process.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_03: But it didn't happen that way.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_03: Why did they need to do a second search warrant to shut down the whole district building?
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_03: Kick everybody out, put crime scene tape around the whole building for an entire week.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_00: What else did they find?
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_00: Because I can tell you right now,
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: there is some magic receipt out there that they gave to the district leadership,
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_00: Daniel Airy.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_00: And Talia Vicentainer, they have a copy of the search warrant receipt.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_00: So that tells you that the police did take things,
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_00: but I'm sorry,
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_00: I thought we already gave them everything in the first search warrant,
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_00: which is what Mr. Jeff Tobey just said.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: We gave them everything already.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, then why did they need to do I don't need no PR person telling me what to think.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_03: I don't need them to tell me what to say because I know the truth.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_03: And the truth is going to come
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_03: They keep saying, we've been cooperating this whole time with the police department.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_00: Where's the police department's statement collaborating that?
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_00: They haven't put out a statement.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_00: All they are doing is investigating this district for a failure
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_03: to report.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_03: I have a family member that's retired detective and kind of just brainstorming
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_03: with him because I'm over here like, what is happening?
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_03: Like, we just got raided.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_03: You don't see that.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_03: You don't see a school district get shut down and kick everybody out,
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_03: put crime seat tape around.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_03: He said, you know, I know exactly what they're doing.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_03: You only do that when you have exhausted all efforts and you're pissed off
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_03: because you keep having to come back to get
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_00: stuff and they're not giving it to you.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, I hate it.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_00: And he said, so that's one reason that they do those kinds of things.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_03: The other one is they're building a case.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_03: So the community really needs to be able to do that.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_03: If they're saying,
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_03: we told them to do the first search warrant,
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_03: did we also tell them to do the second search warrant?
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_03: Did we tell them, hey,
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_03: even though you did the second search warrant,
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_03: we're going to send an email out saying we're disappointed.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_03: That doesn't sound like partnership.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_03: That sounds like the district leadership,
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_03: the people
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_00: at the very top, they are fighting with the police department.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_00: That's what it sounds like to me.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_00: It sounds like they are trying to make it the police's
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_03: And I have a problem with that.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_03: That email should have never went out.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_03: And here's the other piece that I do not understand for the life of me.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_03: Anytime there is an investigation with the police department in school districts,
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_03: this is across Arizona,
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_03: the process is always putting that employee on admin leave during that investigation
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_03: because you want to protect the integrity of
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_03: the investigation is what I always hear.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_03: We've had two search warrants.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_03: Why are we not putting anybody on admin leave during this investigation?
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_03: That's what I don't understand.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_03: The direct people of this investigation,
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_03: they're the ones that are making the decisions at the top,
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_03: saying, we just have questions.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, let's break down a search warrant for everybody.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_03: It's ordered by a federal judge.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_03: They have probable And the judge sees enough for him to be like, yep, go get it.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_03: I can tell you right now, this judge is very
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: He's very smart.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: He already knows about FERPA.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_00: He already knows about Title IX or whatever.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_03: Whatever the terms you want to use, the judge is fully aware.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_03: He's dealt with things like this before and he still says search warrant and then
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_03: the district leadership The governing board oversees the district.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_03: We are there for accountability and transparency.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_00: Help me understand who is holding the district accountable right now.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: If you're willing to say, I didn't follow Monashan, the district did.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_00: You don't find that questionable at all as a board member.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_00: And as the leader of the board,
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_00: you should be updating the board before making a decision like that.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_00: I don't care if the district makes it or not.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_00: There is no process.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_00: It just happened.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_00: And I didn't find out about it.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_00: I think that this is going to hopefully set a precedent regarding FERPA,
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_00: Title IX,
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_00: the privacy policies and rules at school districts, the Board of Education.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_01: About a month ago,
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_01: they put out a statement along the lines that mandated reporting this was like
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_01: a project for them now to open up an entire wing of their department dedicated
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_01: to investigating these crimes that may be happening on school grounds.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_01: It covers everything from sex crimes to bullying,
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_01: all of the things that the district keep from parents.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_01: For too long, these privacy policies have been held over our heads.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_01: FERPA is the reason that we're being told that if a child identifies as Title IX,
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: the misinterpretation,
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_01: I should say,
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_01: of Title IX,
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_01: according to the Department of Ed,
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_01: which that has been wiped off their website,
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_01: but it was the misinterpretation of Title IX regarding that both Substack case,
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_01: which is a Title VII employment case.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_01: It's not an access to public facilities case.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_01: That misinterpretation was held over our head for years,
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_01: and we were allowing boys into girls' private spaces and all that.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_01: So if this situation goes as far as a lot of us Let's hope that it goes
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_01: because we're hoping like multiple lawsuits happen.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_01: If it should be possible to bankrupt a school district,
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_01: let Peoria Unified be the first one because FERPA and Title IX
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_01: and any privacy policy on school grounds does not supersede a search warrant,
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_01: a criminal search warrant signed by a judge.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_03: You're right.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_03: The federal government,
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_03: U.S. Department of Education, they put out a statement a couple weeks ago.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_03: They're looking into 20 school districts across the country when it comes
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_03: to Title IX investigations.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_03: But my question is, do we really think that Congress, I really don't think our lawmakers...
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_03: The U.S.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_03: Department of Education really intended for FERPA and Title IX to be used
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_00: by school districts to block giving evidence to police
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_00: during criminal investigations of children that have been allegedly sexually abused.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_00: That's what I have a problem with.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not a lawyer.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_00: I know I'm not.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_00: But I don't think that that's what they were intending it to be.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_00: With the U.S.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_00: Federal Department of Education,
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_00: the federal government,
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_00: I think what the 20 school districts they're looking at,
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_00: I really
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_03: do hope Peoria is one of them because we're talking about kids.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_03: We're talking about kids.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_03: Do we believe?
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_03: I don't think this is just Peoria.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_03: I think that this is something that happens across the country.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_03: And I think it needs to be looked at very hard.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_03: If there is evidence,
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_03: old evidence, I was going to ask you if you believe that there was a cover
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_03: Right after you were voted out of the presidency, the parents immediately went online.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_03: There's a cover-up.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_03: There's a cover-up.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_03: They're covering for pedophiles.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_03: I think like a journalist.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_01: I couldn't put it out there like that.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_01: I try to give people the benefit of the doubt and I wait things out.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_01: I took my time before I put together this podcast,
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_01: before I put together some things that I have coming out this week.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_01: I like to wait until there is as much information as possible.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_01: And the information even that we got,
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_01: if I was a citizen,
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_01: not a journalist,
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_01: and I only watched that Broomhead interview,
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_01: I would just shrug my shoulder and say,
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_01: It's taken care of and just take my kids back to this school district
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_01: without any question.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_01: And so for those who think that we're just stirring a pot or we're trying
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_01: to prolong something and draw something out, you don't understand how serious it is.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_01: I also read the police report.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_01: What I looked at was the interviews with the teachers,
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_01: all the students,
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_01: the main alleged victim,
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_01: the things that his family was saying,
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_01: the former principal of Centennial, Halabaugh, that was in there.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_01: And then the athletic director and even one other administrator from a different high school.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_01: Like there's multiple people in leadership positions that are mentioned in this police report.
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_01: So I don't want anybody to think that That Heather was just pulling something out of nowhere.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_01: I read most of it too and then I've also read the statute regarding mandated reporting.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_01: You put those two things together and you should have an investigation.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_01: This isn't anything that anybody should be taking personally unless you did something wrong.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_01: People only behave the way that we've been describing up to this point in
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_01: the podcast if you've done something wrong.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_01: Innocent people don't hide things.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_01: There's multiple tiers of leadership in a school district.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_01: For those who may be tuning in and maybe you don't have kids in school,
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_01: so it doesn't matter to you up to this point, but it does now.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_01: The public school district has a hierarchy.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_01: The school board is your body of government.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_01: They're at the top.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_01: The CEO has a cabinet that's your chief executive administration.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_01: Then you've got school admin.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_01: So at the site level, you've got principals, you have department directors, etc.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_01: And then you've got educators, staff, all the time.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_01: I want to ask you,
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_01: Heather,
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_01: which level of leadership do you primarily hold responsible for the fallout
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_01: that we're seeing now?
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_00: I would say the top.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_00: The leadership at the top because they are the ones that set the tone.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_00: They are the ones that the police department deal with.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_00: The second part is absolutely at the school.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_00: Again, I go back to that police report.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_00: All the students all said the same thing.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody knew about it.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_00: That you should want as a board member.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_00: I have to look at the administrators at Centennial High School.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_00: I have to look at did other staff see it and not say anything.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_00: I want to hold everybody accountable that saw it and didn't say anything.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_00: Even in the student interview,
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_00: there was a student that said there were teachers that would ask Haley,
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_00: why do you behave the way that you do?
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_00: So even that, even when you have like a sneaky like, you're not acting right.
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like you're not acting like an adult should.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_03: I just I have a really hard time with that.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_03: And that's why I wanted police to look into it.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_03: I questioned that whole police report,
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_03: not because I didn't think the police were not doing what they were supposed
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_03: to be doing, but because I just did not understand.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_03: All of these adults on this campus,
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_03: and that's the other thing they mention,
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_03: everybody out there defending the district and defending Toby and Becky Proutfit,
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_03: they all say, oh, well,
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_03: this is why
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_00: we need social workers,
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_00: because the social workers are going to fix everything and teach the kids
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_00: and know what to recognize in the signs.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, let's talk about that then.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_00: There was a social worker at Centennial High School from I don't care what adult has a label.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_00: The label,
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_00: whether it's a teacher,
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_00: staff member,
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_00: front office worker,
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_00: principal,
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_00: assistant principal, social worker, this, that, I don't care with the label.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_00: Every adult should have been trained, which is what we do.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_00: We keep saying we train our staff to watch They
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_03: should have seen this.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_03: Specifically, Haley really stood out for me because she was posting videos all over TikTok.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_03: Their students are posting TikTok videos everywhere.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_00: She'd be laying on the floor on the ground in her classroom as a teacher.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_00: She would make these weird videos with the students.
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_03: But what stood out to me is one of the students had commented on a news story
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_03: of me speaking out about this, bringing attention to it.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_03: And the student,
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_03: they just said,
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_03: you know, this woman is the only woman that's speaking out for us right now.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_03: And us students wanted to go to...
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_03: Our principal or the school board,
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_03: but we feared that it would be for nothing because they wouldn't listen to us.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_03: And the student said, and that's exactly what happened.
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_03: And so when you have this whole mindset now of, well, we know it's okay.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_03: Everything's fine.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_03: Everything's fine.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_03: Everything's fine.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_03: We now have a reporting system on the
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_00: back of student IDs that they can call
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_00: a special number if they see something to report it.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe they just didn't know where to report.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe the students just didn't know.
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_00: A graduating student of Centennial High School emailed all the administrators
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_00: at Centennial High School sharing her concerns in a very detailed email
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_00: that her younger sister was uncomfortable in Haley Beck's class with her.
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_00: With what she was witnessing and the other students were witnessing.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_00: She listed three key things.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_00: One, Haley was texting and Snapchatting with a specific student.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_00: Two, sitting in the car with that same student.
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_00: And three, giving that student a gift and only that student.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_00: She also emailed and said that All the students are afraid to say something
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_00: because there's a stigma surrounding being tattletale or whatever.
• 32:39
  SPEAKER_03: So she was coming to the administrators.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_03: Hey, please help.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_03: Help.
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_03: My sister is uncomfortable.
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_00: That's the same thing as a tip line on the back of a student ID card.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_00: You can put...
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_00: You can put phone numbers wherever you want.
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_00: You can say, students, please report it.
• 32:54
  SPEAKER_00: But if you don't have adults take it seriously and report it to
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_00: the police department and to DCS and following the law, it's not going to matter.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_00: And the tip line, what's the number it goes to?
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_00: Who do you call?
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, this is the number.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_00: That's where it goes to.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_00: The district leadership, the officials at the district is where it goes to.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_00: Which is hilarious to me because we are currently,
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_00: the police department already said,
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_00: we are being investigated as a whole district for
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_03: failure to report.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_03: If you're really serious about it,
• 33:29
  SPEAKER_03: then have the number go directly to the police department, the 911.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_03: Parents, have your kid, if they see something, talk to them.
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_03: Say, hey, if you see something at school that doesn't look right, call 911.
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_03: Come home and tell us and we will call
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_00: the police.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_00: Please don't, don't do it through the district right now, especially right now.
• 33:51
  SPEAKER_00: That is absolutely mind-blowing to me.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_01: You just got done clarifying that a lot of students were scared to say something.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_01: They don't want to be tattletales, snitches, whatever.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_01: We know how kids are and they know how adults are.
• 34:02
  SPEAKER_01: That's why they have the fear they have.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_01: There are some people in our community that think that the blame should be laid
• 34:09
  SPEAKER_01: on students who share things online.
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_02: I want to,
• 34:12
  SPEAKER_02: you know,
• 34:12
  SPEAKER_02: this is a part of the story that I think is
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_02: a mother makes me see red is all these students,
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_02: you know, a handful of students went on TikTok afterwards after the fact.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_02: We don't have record of any of those students coming to actual authorities,
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_02: but instead they went to TikTok and it became a social media centered conversation.
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_02: The hard part is as a school district,
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_02: we don't have control over what your child does on social media.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_02: And that's where I think it's really important to remember that
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_02: the number one mandatory reporter is parents as well.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_02: They also fall under that.
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_02: And so we need to be very careful as parents to ensure
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_02: that we know what our child is saying and doing online.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_02: And the system only works when everyone's cooperating,
• 34:50
  SPEAKER_02: when parents are cooperating with school districts,
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_02: cooperating with police, and we all work together and we cover all those bases.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_02: But we have to make sure I know for myself, I'm a parent of teens.
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_02: I want to make sure that I know if my kid is on TikTok,
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_02: I need to know what is happening on TikTok.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_02: What is being said so that I know what to ask my child and
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_02: then potentially I can become a really important mandated reporter.
• 35:10
  SPEAKER_01: Let me tell you something.
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_01: This was the part of the interview where I had to pause the longest.
• 35:15
  SPEAKER_01: Remember I told you it took me like two hours to watch this?
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_01: This was difficult to watch knowing that they were sitting up there lying.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_01: I paused this and was like, our social emotional counterparts would call this victim blaming.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_01: Not that I necessarily disagree with what she said.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_01: I disagree with the context and the timing of it because the fact of
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_01: the matter is we know how children are when it comes to social media.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_01: This is how they express themselves.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_01: This is how they vent their frustrations.
• 35:41
  SPEAKER_01: This is just what they do.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_01: At no time,
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_01: I just want to be clear about this,
• 35:46
  SPEAKER_01: at no time when it comes to a sexual relationship between a child and an adult,
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_01: at no time is it ever the child's fault, period.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_01: I don't care if it's a 16-year-old girl, she's promiscuous.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_01: I don't care.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_01: It does not matter.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_01: It is 100% the adult's fault every single time.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_01: It does not matter.
• 36:10
  SPEAKER_01: The second thing is, is this is not an appropriate time to lecture parents.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_01: I just had all sorts of problems with the timing,
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_01: the context, and the last thing that I have a problem with is
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_01: Mike Broomhead specifically asked, do you think there is some truth to this?
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_01: Is it possible that administrators ignored students' complaints?
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_01: She sat there and said, well, we don't have any record of it.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_01: The police report lets us know that at least one student...
• 36:46
  SPEAKER_01: At least one former student,
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_01: at least one community member did say something to the district long
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_01: before there was a raid.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_01: Unless I missed it, okay?
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_01: Neither one of them condemned the actions of alleged perpetrators.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_01: They did not warn themselves.
• 37:01
  SPEAKER_01: No, we don't.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_01: We need to cooperate with law enforcement.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_01: When laws are broken, that's how we work together.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_01: We put the kids first.
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_01: And I just don't think that Peoria Unified is doing that.
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_03: I miss it the first time around.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_03: But right in the beginning, she says, the thing that irks me the most that gets me as a mom.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_03: It's the kids that were victims,
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_03: not just from the alleged sexual abuse by
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_00: these two teachers,
• 37:39
  SPEAKER_00: but victims in the class of how they acted and everything they witnessed
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_00: in Sullivan class.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_00: That's what got her as a...
• 37:46
  SPEAKER_00: Me as a mom,
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_00: I would be like,
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_00: I'm more pissed that two adults sexually abused, allegedly, these kids.
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_00: They groomed them.
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_00: Allegedly, took advantage of them.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_00: And as a mom, I am sending my kids to these schools.
• 38:08
  SPEAKER_00: You better start protecting my children.
• 38:11
  SPEAKER_00: That's a mom.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_00: That's a mama bear that comes through.
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_00: It's not this.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's the kids' faults because they went on TikTok and talked about it.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_00: And now it's all over the news.
• 38:22
  SPEAKER_00: The parents, they can't watch them eight hours a day when they're in the schools.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_00: That's the adults at the schools that are supposed to be looking out for them.
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_00: So to sit here and point fingers at the kids because they're going on TikTok
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_00: and talking about it is ridiculous to me.
• 38:34
  SPEAKER_00: And her mentioning, well, we don't have any reports of these kids talking to the police.
• 38:39
  SPEAKER_00: I do know one student, graduated student, that spoke on TikTok.
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_00: And shared their experience in the classroom with Haley Beck and how
• 38:47
  SPEAKER_00: that Haley Beck
• 38:48
  SPEAKER_03: targeted them.
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_03: And that student says, I did talk to the police.
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_03: I was interviewed by police.
• 38:53
  SPEAKER_03: So probably majority of those students did talk
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_00: to the police.
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_00: But here again, it doesn't.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_00: All I see is you are shifting the blame onto the kids and their parents versus
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_00: the people who committed,
• 39:10
  SPEAKER_00: allegedly, these crimes against children and the people who were responsible.
• 39:15
  SPEAKER_00: How about I worry about my kid and you worry about,
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_00: as a governing board member, hold people accountable who have committed
• 39:30
  SPEAKER_01: Bringing up the fact that the kids went on TikTok and parents need
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_01: to monitor their child's online activity when the district is being investigated
• 39:42
  SPEAKER_01: for child sex crimes.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_01: That's like reporting your neighbor to the HOA for their grass being too tall
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_01: while your roof is on fire.
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't make sense.
• 39:53
  SPEAKER_01: Your house is on fire.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_01: You Not outside with a ruler measuring how tall your neighbor's grass is.
• 40:01
  SPEAKER_01: We are talking about children being violated.
• 40:03
  SPEAKER_01: Also, to your point earlier, saying that the police department, they took something.
• 40:08
  SPEAKER_01: They took multiples of something because they were there constantly.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_01: I just want to put this out here, too.
• 40:13
  SPEAKER_01: This podcast has not been...
• 40:34
  SPEAKER_01: A session to bash anybody.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_01: We're just trying to get at the truth.
• 40:39
  SPEAKER_01: And I know that a lot of people that are Team Tiffany,
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_01: Team Heather,
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_01: they don't care for these two individuals that we've been talking
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_01: about this entire podcast.
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_01: And I don't know if you remember this,
• 40:48
  SPEAKER_01: Heather, but when Proudfit was first appointed to the board, the parents went wild.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_01: They went through her social media and said, she is a leftist.
• 40:54
  SPEAKER_01: Don't put her on the golden ticket.
• 40:55
  SPEAKER_01: All these things.
• 40:56
  SPEAKER_01: I think I was the only voice of reason that said, let's just give her the benefit of the doubt.
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_01: You remember that?
• 41:02
  SPEAKER_01: I remember it.
• 41:03
  SPEAKER_01: A couple of parents were looking at me like, what did she see in the black square?
• 41:07
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, look, listen, in 2020, every white person put a black square.
• 41:10
  SPEAKER_01: They thought BLM was doing something good.
• 41:12
  SPEAKER_01: I just dismissed all of that because I didn't know what to think.
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_01: But once somebody starts opening their mouth and I start to see how they vote,
• 41:19
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to shift accordingly.
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to shift my perspective.
• 41:24
  SPEAKER_01: And that's what I feel like Becky is failing to do.
• 41:27
  SPEAKER_01: That's what Jeff is failing to do.
• 41:28
  SPEAKER_01: They are failing to shift their perspective around the reality that we have at
• 41:33
  SPEAKER_01: the present moment.
• 41:35
  SPEAKER_01: That's fine if you want to put out there,
• 41:36
  SPEAKER_01: oh, at the time, the police only had such and such, so they said there was no.
• 41:40
  SPEAKER_01: I'm under the impression,
• 41:40
  SPEAKER_01: though, that the initial investigation, they were looking for evidence to
• 41:56
  SPEAKER_01: Make an arrest to charge and prosecute somebody for child sex crimes.
• 42:01
  SPEAKER_01: That was the more pertinent issue.
• 42:03
  SPEAKER_01: So mandated reporting might not have stuck out in the police investigators minds.
• 42:08
  SPEAKER_01: We love the Peoria PD.
• 42:10
  SPEAKER_01: We're not faulting them for information.
• 42:11
  SPEAKER_01: This is an investigation.
• 42:27
  SPEAKER_03: Like you said, into alleged child sex crimes.
• 42:31
  SPEAKER_03: Toby, Becky Proudfit, they just want to be, hey, we're going to move forward.
• 42:36
  SPEAKER_03: It's fine.
• 42:37
  SPEAKER_03: Everything's great.
• 42:38
  SPEAKER_03: We're going to move forward because we can't dwell on the past.
• 42:41
  SPEAKER_03: That's the message that I see as a parent when I'm watching and listening to them.
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_00: We can't move forward because there's still a criminal investigation happening.
• 42:51
  SPEAKER_00: There's a second investigation happening now into whether or not the district failed to report.
• 42:56
  SPEAKER_00: We can't move on from that until we know what happened,
• 43:00
  SPEAKER_00: who knew And if there was anybody that knew about it
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_00: or they were withholding evidence in an investigation,
• 43:06
  SPEAKER_00: they need to be away from children.
• 43:08
  SPEAKER_00: That's how I feel about it.
• 43:09
  SPEAKER_00: Just putting my head in the sand and being like, you know what?
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_00: It's okay because we put a tip line on the back of the student ID.
• 43:16
  SPEAKER_00: So everything's fine now.
• 43:17
  SPEAKER_00: And we've been cooperating with police.
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_00: It's okay.
• 43:20
  SPEAKER_00: Everything's fine now.
• 43:21
  SPEAKER_00: No, you can't just move forward and pretend it didn't happen.
• 43:25
  SPEAKER_00: You can't put things in place until the investigation is done on whether
• 43:29
  SPEAKER_00: or not there was failure to report.
• 43:31
  SPEAKER_00: So this whole mindset of we're just going to play pretend
• 43:34
  SPEAKER_00: and act like everything's fine, that's frustrating to me as a parent.
• 43:40
  SPEAKER_01: The other thing, too,
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_01: is that,
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_01: and I know we've probably mentioned it throughout this podcast,
• 43:44
  SPEAKER_01: but specifically,
• 43:45
  SPEAKER_01: we need those investigations to show us if there are more student victims.
• 43:50
  SPEAKER_01: And not even just with these two teachers.
• 43:52
  SPEAKER_01: They took a lot of paperwork out of the district office.
• 43:55
  SPEAKER_01: The police,
• 43:56
  SPEAKER_01: I believe,
• 43:57
  SPEAKER_01: are probably looking at past issues in the district
• 43:59
  SPEAKER_01: because failed mandated reporting has happened.
• 44:02
  SPEAKER_01: The issue that always comes to mind is is Patrick Battillo.
• 44:07
  SPEAKER_01: There was a teacher.
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_01: She was arrested at the same time that Mr. Orange was.
• 44:11
  SPEAKER_01: She tipped him off, I believe.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_01: He fled the scene before police could arrest him.
• 44:14
  SPEAKER_01: I think he got arrested at his house.
• 44:16
  SPEAKER_01: And when I tried to look into court documents, I don't think she ever went to court.
• 44:21
  SPEAKER_01: And I forgot to look whether or not she still has her teaching certificate.
• 44:24
  SPEAKER_01: But to my knowledge,
• 44:26
  SPEAKER_01: she was not punished for failing to mandate report and tipping off the teacher.
• 44:31
  SPEAKER_01: He was a teacher and a coach.
• 44:33
  SPEAKER_01: Predators are like cockroaches.
• 44:35
  SPEAKER_01: If you've seen one, there's a whole colony, and we need the police department to smoke them out.
• 44:42
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, that was mentioned at a previous board meeting.
• 44:45
  SPEAKER_03: There was a presentation to the board before school started, and I do like this administrator.
• 44:51
  SPEAKER_03: She had a PowerPoint presentation on grapes.
• 44:54
  SPEAKER_03: You know,
• 44:54
  SPEAKER_03: getting home
• 44:55
  SPEAKER_00: from the grocery store,
• 44:55
  SPEAKER_00: you buy your grapes, you might have And I understand what she's saying.
• 44:58
  SPEAKER_00: And so that's why I'm trying to change my verbiage of not the whole district.
• 45:01
  SPEAKER_00: Now I'm changing into district leadership.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_00: Because those are the ones that make the decisions.
• 45:17
  SPEAKER_00: And I think for me with the whole grape analogy is, again,
• 45:22
  SPEAKER_00: the investigation is still occurring on whether or not there was a failure
• 45:25
  SPEAKER_00: to report.
• 45:26
  SPEAKER_00: And if it comes out that there was individuals that failed to report,
• 45:30
  SPEAKER_00: if we just leave those bad grapes on that whole thing of grapes
• 45:33
  SPEAKER_00: and we don't investigate and dig deeper into what might be going on,
• 45:39
  SPEAKER_00: that's going to spread to all of the grapes.
• 45:41
  SPEAKER_01: We got cockroaches and grapes.
• 45:43
  SPEAKER_03: There has to be some type of accountability.
• 45:45
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not going to sit and pretend that everything's fine because
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_03: to me that's you're ignoring the victims.
• 45:51
  SPEAKER_01: I know this is kind of personal for you.
• 45:53
  SPEAKER_01: It is for me, too, but not on the same level.
• 45:56
  SPEAKER_01: You and Jeff Tobey were actually two founding members
• 45:59
  SPEAKER_01: of West Valley Parents Uniting,
• 46:01
  SPEAKER_01: a grassroots parent group,
• 46:02
  SPEAKER_01: and it covers the West Valley, mainly Peoria Unified School District.
• 46:08
  SPEAKER_01: And so I You guys served together in that organization,
• 46:12
  SPEAKER_01: I think for several years before you both resigned to run for office.
• 46:15
  SPEAKER_01: WVPU, as well as yourself,
• 46:17
  SPEAKER_01: both came together and put together a campaign,
• 46:21
  SPEAKER_01: the Vote the Jays campaign, to get Jeff over the line.
• 46:24
  SPEAKER_01: This narrative is going to follow him.
• 46:26
  SPEAKER_01: I'm the one that's putting it out there and it'll continue to follow him
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_01: that he didn't have the popularity to even get elected.
• 46:34
  SPEAKER_01: If it was not for you, I'll also say Janelle Bowles because she was very popular.
• 46:39
  SPEAKER_01: You, Janelle.
• 46:39
  SPEAKER_01: We're just getting a revelation of it.
• 46:42
  SPEAKER_01: What do you think is going on with Toby?
• 46:44
  SPEAKER_01: Like I said, this was somebody who was your friend.
• 46:46
  SPEAKER_01: This is a colleague.
• 47:05
  SPEAKER_00: I'm kind of mind blown, to be honest.
• 47:07
  SPEAKER_00: He knows who I am.
• 47:08
  SPEAKER_00: He knows why I fight the way that I fight.
• 47:10
  SPEAKER_00: And it's because of the kids.
• 47:12
  SPEAKER_00: And I can remember he'd have conversations with people.
• 47:15
  SPEAKER_00: They would be concerned with the way that I advocate.
• 47:19
  SPEAKER_00: And he said, you know, she's passionate.
• 47:22
  SPEAKER_00: That's the way I see it.
• 47:22
  SPEAKER_00: He would ask people, do you agree with what she says?
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_00: And they'd be like, well, yeah.
• 47:26
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, okay.
• 47:27
  SPEAKER_00: She just says it in a different way.
• 47:28
  SPEAKER_00: So he knows that I don't use anything for political aspirations.
• 47:33
  SPEAKER_00: He knows it.
• 47:34
  SPEAKER_00: He knows that that's not what this was about ever.
• 47:37
  SPEAKER_00: He knows it's about the kids because I care about the kids.
• 47:39
  SPEAKER_00: I think something's wrong.
• 47:41
  SPEAKER_00: It's either he doesn't want to acknowledge that,
• 47:44
  SPEAKER_00: hey, actually, maybe she did do the right thing by going to Rachel Mitchell.
• 47:48
  SPEAKER_00: You were right.
• 47:49
  SPEAKER_00: And if that's the case, I don't really care.
• 47:52
  SPEAKER_00: When I saw Jeff Tobey running for school board,
• 47:55
  SPEAKER_00: The things that he said that he promised he would have accountability,
• 47:59
  SPEAKER_00: that there would be transparency,
• 48:01
  SPEAKER_00: that's not accountability, that's not transparency.
• 48:03
  SPEAKER_00: Of cabinet members and our superintendent scheming and plotting to purposely not tell the board.
• 48:10
  SPEAKER_00: That's not the person I thought he was.
• 48:12
  SPEAKER_00: It is really sad because...
• 48:15
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I tell you what, I didn't trust Jeff.
• 48:18
  SPEAKER_01: I appreciated his public comments back when he was just a citizen
• 48:21
  SPEAKER_01: and I appreciated him stepping up to run.
• 48:23
  SPEAKER_01: But where I figured that I couldn't trust him was the behaviors that I saw.
• 48:29
  SPEAKER_01: And it's subtle.
• 48:30
  SPEAKER_01: There was the whole being nice, nice so that we didn't hurt the campaign.
• 48:34
  SPEAKER_01: His behavior was different than Janelle's.
• 48:36
  SPEAKER_01: She's a very prayerful person.
• 48:37
  SPEAKER_01: We're prayerful people.
• 48:39
  SPEAKER_01: And she's like, you know, I would say this, this and this, but you know what?
• 48:42
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to hurt my campaign.
• 48:44
  SPEAKER_01: That was kind of Janelle's attitude on the campaign trail.
• 48:47
  SPEAKER_01: Jeff's attitude on the campaign trail,
• 48:49
  SPEAKER_01: all the smiling and the kiki and giving Proudfit all of this credit,
• 48:54
  SPEAKER_01: for me, it was like he wanted to fit in with the mean girls.
• 48:57
  SPEAKER_01: Once I started to see that and had people from the community messaging me about
• 49:02
  SPEAKER_01: an LD meeting that I didn't even attend,
• 49:04
  SPEAKER_01: did you hear that He gave her credit for this, this,
• 49:07
  SPEAKER_01: and this,
• 49:07
  SPEAKER_01: and didn't mention Heather and all the things,
• 49:09
  SPEAKER_01: and I was just kind of like, hmm, not really a show of strength, is it?
• 49:13
  SPEAKER_01: And I just left it at that.
• 49:14
  SPEAKER_01: So I had kind of been onto him a little bit.
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_01: I can sense when people are fake.
• 49:18
  SPEAKER_01: When somebody is too nice, people who You know what I think about nice.
• 49:22
  SPEAKER_01: I always say nice is fake.
• 49:23
  SPEAKER_01: Jeff was too nice.
• 49:25
  SPEAKER_01: Proudfit was too nice.
• 49:26
  SPEAKER_01: Anybody that's just super nice, you should be leery of those people.
• 49:30
  SPEAKER_01: So, well,
• 49:30
  SPEAKER_01: Heather,
• 49:31
  SPEAKER_01: no matter how clear you are in your position,
• 49:34
  SPEAKER_01: we probably said allegedly like 30,000 times on here,
• 49:38
  SPEAKER_01: no matter how clear your intentions that you're doing this for children,
• 49:42
  SPEAKER_01: inevitably, your words are going to be twisted.
• 49:45
  SPEAKER_01: You will be blamed for the things that you did and didn't do,
• 49:49
  SPEAKER_01: even by those who claim to be conservative.
• 49:52
  SPEAKER_01: So what do you have to say specifically to those who are attacking you
• 49:56
  SPEAKER_01: and potentially plotting against you between now and your election this November?
• 50:02
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I guess there's been a lot of comments on, oh, Heather was president all last year.
• 50:07
  SPEAKER_03: So why didn't she do anything about the email that was sent in February of 2025 to
• 50:12
  SPEAKER_03: the centennial administrators
• 50:14
  SPEAKER_00: from that graduating student?
• 50:15
  SPEAKER_00: I think that they need to take a bigger step back and look at what I've said before.
• 50:21
  SPEAKER_00: School board members do not have access to They don't have access sometimes
• 50:27
  SPEAKER_00: to what is on file, what is in these reports.
• 50:31
  SPEAKER_00: In general,
• 50:32
  SPEAKER_00: you ask any school board member,
• 50:33
  SPEAKER_00: conservative school board member,
• 50:35
  SPEAKER_00: majority of them will say that the district leadership at the top They like
• 50:40
  SPEAKER_00: to hide stuff from board members.
• 50:43
  SPEAKER_00: They just do.
• 50:44
  SPEAKER_00: They want to blame everything on the school board.
• 50:46
  SPEAKER_00: And that was the biggest thing that I was always told from staff members
• 50:50
  SPEAKER_00: that didn't want their name out there.
• 50:52
  SPEAKER_00: They're like,
• 50:52
  SPEAKER_00: they're blaming you because I'm questioning what is going on,
• 50:55
  SPEAKER_00: because I want the police to overturn every single nook and cranny.
• 51:02
  SPEAKER_00: I grew up in this district.
• 51:04
  SPEAKER_00: My kids are in this district.
• 51:05
  SPEAKER_00: And that's been mentioned too.
• 51:06
  SPEAKER_00: Well, if it's so bad, take your kids out.
• 51:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not saying every single person in the district is bad.
• 51:12
  SPEAKER_00: I'm saying that there are individuals in high-up leadership positions.
• 51:17
  SPEAKER_00: Repositions that their actions are questionable to me.
• 51:20
  SPEAKER_00: So you can put up all the smoke and mirrors that you want.
• 51:23
  SPEAKER_00: You can call me names.
• 51:25
  SPEAKER_00: I don't care because it's about kids.
• 51:28
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not going to ignore what was written in the police report, what those kids said.
• 51:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's what they want.
• 51:34
  SPEAKER_00: They want it to go away.
• 51:35
  SPEAKER_00: The high up people want it to go away.
• 51:37
  SPEAKER_00: Just make it go away.
• 51:38
  SPEAKER_00: We're fine.
• 51:39
  SPEAKER_00: Everything's good.
• 51:40
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not going to do that until that investigation is complete and until the truth is out.
• 51:45
  SPEAKER_00: And the truth will come out.
• 51:46
  SPEAKER_00: That's the thing.
• 51:47
  SPEAKER_00: They think the truth is not going to come out.
• 51:48
  SPEAKER_00: It's going to come out.
• 51:49
  SPEAKER_01: In more ways than one.
• 51:51
  SPEAKER_01: Like I said earlier.
• 51:52
  SPEAKER_01: So what are your final thoughts to all your constituents?
• 51:56
  SPEAKER_03: Parents.
• 51:57
  SPEAKER_03: I would love to say that every single staff member in Peoria Unified is good.
• 52:03
  SPEAKER_03: I'd love to say that.
• 52:03
  SPEAKER_03: I would love to just be happy and smiley all the time.
• 52:06
  SPEAKER_03: But I think you need to be cautious.
• 52:08
  SPEAKER_03: I think you need to be discerning when it comes to your kids and always ask questions.
• 52:14
  SPEAKER_03: And if there is something that is going on with your child
• 52:17
  SPEAKER_03: or your child has noticed something,
• 52:19
  SPEAKER_03: please, please reach out to our police department.
• 52:21
  SPEAKER_03: Report it with them because I don't want any what ifs.
• 52:27
  SPEAKER_01: There's a statistic, and I can't remember which agency it is, so you'll have to look it up.
• 52:31
  SPEAKER_01: But there is a statistic out there that says 90% of people
• 52:37
  SPEAKER_01: who report being victimized are telling the truth.
• 52:40
  SPEAKER_01: So it's less than a 10% margin of people that may lie to get attention or...
• 52:46
  SPEAKER_01: Whatever the case may be,
• 52:47
  SPEAKER_01: but if we have a 90% truth margin,
• 52:52
  SPEAKER_01: that should be enough to defend the kids anytime they say there's something going
• 52:57
  SPEAKER_01: on.
• 52:57
  SPEAKER_01: That should remove all barriers, all doubts.
• 53:00
  SPEAKER_01: Mandated reporting is not an administrator, a teacher, a parent investigating it for yourself.
• 53:06
  SPEAKER_01: That is a report that you make in good faith to law enforcement.
• 53:10
  SPEAKER_01: That needs to become a high priority.
• 53:13
  SPEAKER_01: If we expect these kids to thrive and not graduate having been victims of predators.
• 53:19
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I fully agree.