TIPS INCLUDE NEPOTISM, CONFLICT OF INTEREST, MISSING EQUIPMENT, AND TEACHER MISBEHAVIOR.
by John L. Guerra
The Monroe County School District’s new fraud hotline has registered complaints of nepotism, conflict of interest, missing equipment, and teacher misbehavior in the school district.
Even an unnamed schools superintendent is among those accused in the complaints that were phoned in, emailed, or entered on the new online fraud reporting system by civilians, staff, teachers, and students.
The EthicsPoint system, which costs the district $5,000 a year, is available around the clock and is designed to give everyone a place to lodge complaints, point out misbehavior, or point out other shortcomings in the school system, said Ken Gentile, the district’s internal auditor. The system calls complaints and questions to the system “inquiries.”
“When the system receives an inquiry, we can track it, assign it to the right department or supervisor who investigates it, and we can follow up on its disposition,” Gentile said. “With a community of our size, we can expect no less than 40 inquiries a year.”
The local school district is more than keeping up with that pace, Gentile said. According to Gentile’s first monthly report on the fraud system he filed with the school system’s volunteer Audit and Finance committee, 11 complaints have come in since the system was launched last month. Complaints, which are only described in bare bones terms in Gentile’s report, include:
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