Frazier Park School PTSO: former officers under investigation

  • Frazier Park Elementary School PTSO is given a room on school grounds  and conducts a wide variety of activities for the school, including raising money on campus from parents, children and businesses. But the officers of the PTSO refused to show their bylaws to those who had donated to the group. In December 2014 school district administrators said they would produce no bylaws for the group, no minutes from their meetings and no financial records.  Those are public records under the terms of the California Public Records Act if they were in the district's files. Transparency in such matters maintains public trust. Now there is an investigation being conducted by the Kern County Sheriff's office. [photo by Gary Meyer]

    Frazier Park Elementary School PTSO is given a room on school grounds and conducts a wide variety of activities for the school, including raising money on campus from parents, children and businesses. But the officers of the PTSO refused to show their bylaws to those who had donated to the group. In December 2014 school district administrators said they would produce no bylaws for the group, no minutes from their meetings and no financial records. Those are public records under the terms of the California Public Records Act if they were in the district's files. Transparency in such matters maintains public trust. Now there is an investigation being conducted by the Kern County Sheriff's office. [photo by Gary Meyer]

By Patric Hedlund and Gary Meyer

It is an open secret now that an investigation is underway for possible embezzlement or misuse of Frazier Park School PTSO assets. Former PTSO officers are being questioned and financial records tracked.

“The total amount of theft or loss reported is over $5,000,” Kern County Sheriff’s Sergeant Mark Brown said on Monday, Feb. 23. “It was reported to us …(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Account data has been redacted from this check, but it illustrates that the Frazier Park School’s name is used by the PTSO to collect money from the public, yet administrators had no bylaws for the group or minutes from their meetings.

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