Kern High School District officials are exploring the possibility of shuttering access to a police information database system, or even doing away with its independent police force, following allegations that top-level administrators misused the system, board President Mike Williams said Thursday.
Those allegations surfaced this past week when KBAK Eyewitness News reporter and Californian columnist Jose Gaspar obtained an explosive Kern County Sheriff’s Office investigative report. It quoted high school district Police Chief Joe Lopeteguy as saying administrators and employees improperly used the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS) to run background checks on students.