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Denise-Marie Balona, High school sports, High schools, Lake County schools — posted by denise balona on July, 28 2010 7:03 AM
The Lake County school district has two words for those of you who — like me — were waiting for officials to release a tape of former football coach Charles Nassar’s rantings during a private meeting: Tough tootsies.
District officials aren’t giving out copies, even though they’re technically public records. Why? The State Attorney’s Office told them not to, they said.
You see, Nassar, who coached at Leesburg High, says the tape was made illegally. He was meeting with some of his assistant coaches in his office and someone made an audio tape of the conversation without him knowing. Several copies of that tape surfaced this past spring — one reason Nassar decided to turn in his clipboard.
The school district had launched an internal review based on the contents of the tape. But officials weren’t sure how to proceed considering, for one thing, that Nassar’s attorney claimed that even listening to it could be a violation of the law.
The district sought guidance from the local State Attorney’s Office, which recently issued a short letter saying the tapes should be sealed and then, when the district keeps them as long as they’re required to under public-records law, they can be thrown out.
Publicizing the tape’s contents would constitute a new crime because the taped conversation was illegal, said Assistant State Attorney Mark D. Simpson in his letter to the district.
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