Redacted versions of the five reports stemming from the Title IX investigations at the Amherst Regional Middle School have now been made available to the public. They have been posted on Boarddocs, the website used to post School Committee meetings, information, and policies. To access the reports, visit the ARPS Boarddocs site, click on Library, then School Committee Information.
Or use this link: http://go.boarddocs.com/ma/arps/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=C7SKS452D9F7
The five reports are:
– Title IX investigation report about Tania Cabrera (11 pages)
– Title IX investigation report about Hector Santos (36 pages)
– Title IX investigation report about Delinda Dykes (65 pages)
– Investigation report about Delinda Dykes and Hector Santos (34 pages)
– Investigation report to ARPS School Committee (94 pages)
I want to clarify that, despite what has been reported in the press and discussed among community members, the fifth and longest report (Investigation report to ARPS School Committee) is the only report that the Regional and Union 26 School Committees (RSC and U26) previously had access to. The other four reports were not made available to us prior to being posted publicly on Friday November 17.
RSC and U26 School Committee members were originally informed that we could pick up a redacted version of this report on October 10, in preparation for our October 12 meeting. Ultimately, we were permitted to have the unredacted version of the report, which most members picked up on October 10 or October 11. We were instructed to sign confidentiality agreements stating that we would not disclose the information in the report, and that we would return the report to the superintendent’s office after the October 12 meeting and would not retain a copy of it.
On October 12, after the meeting concluded, we surrendered our copies of the report to Attorney Marc Terry, who indicated he would have them shredded.
Between October 12 and November 17, I had no access to any of the reports.
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