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I'm not going to defend this situation because I don't know enough about it. That being said, in any company that has 1000 employees and 20 locations when a problem occurs with an employee, it is handled by the immediate supervisor and a middle management team. Typically a note goes into an employee's record. The CEO of a company with a 1000 employees and 20 locations doesn't know what is going on every day in every location with every employee. The HR department has access to the employee records but management doesn't have the ability to just walk into the HR department and start reading records. It is possible that a year ago when this happened it was taken care of properly and didn't go any further. Once the situation has past and the employee received the appropriate disciplinary action, they can't go back and give them additional disciplinary action for the initial problem.

The Mayor knows this is the same exact situation with the city employee who stole the equipment and materials to rebuild their Deck at their house. They were reprimanded for their actions and couldn't be reprimanded twice for the same incident. The employee was given their job back and received back pay.

Check this link in the Warwick Beacon from 2011, http://warwickonline.com/stories/City-employee-disciplined-for-borrowing-tools,63430

and this link where the charges were dismissed in 2013: http://warwickonline.com/stories/Charges-dismissed-against-DPW-worker-for-borrowing-city-equipment,83148?print=1

and this https://www.facebook.com/WPRI12/posts/10151462699763202

Of course the guy stole the equipment, he was guilty and how did that end up?

What is happening now is a separate occurrence and what happened previously is not an indication that something like he is accused of now would happen. We can speculate. Again, if I was the parent I would not have let the initial situation just go away.

The situation with the teacher is that he has been accused, the proper authorities are investigating. I hope it didn't happen for the sake of the girl and the family. If that is the case, this person has been persecuted for something that didn't happen. Imagine the lawsuit we will have if he is exonerated. On Facebook, people are saying the guy should be tortured, mutilated and killed. If he is guilty, the authorities will deal with it appropriately. For now, as far as I can tell, the schools have given all the information they (legally) can, they are not the authorities (even the authorities haven't commented other than to say it is an ongoing investigation), they do not have access to the information the police do, and if they did release something inappropriately it could have an effect on the outcome of this investigation and prosecution. He is removed from the classroom and the kids are safe.

The last and most important thing is to think about the safety of the kids. What good would it do for the schools to release his previous records and have the person, if guilty, get off on a technicality. Imagine they release the info, he is found guilty but his lawyer puts in an appeal that the jury decision was tainted because of the previous problem he had swayed the jury to find him guilty. Then we have a guilty person out on the street because they got out on a technicality. It sounds far fetched but I would like the authorities to be able to do their job properly and if he is guilty he should pay.