Human rights officer information posted in student office

School now adheres to policy requiring information be “conspicuously posted”

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A poster with district human rights officer Richard Kreyer’s contact information hangs in the student office. Echo reporters found the information posted Jan. 23. This adheres to policy which requires the officer’s information be “conspicuously posted.”

Raphy Gendler
A poster inside the student office, which has contact information for human rights officer Richard Kreyer. Policies in the student handbook require the officer’s name be “conspicuously posted.”

After an Echo investigation found administration had violated policy, including the failure to post the name and information of a human rights officer, Echo reporters found a poster in the student office with the human rights officer’s name and contact information Jan. 23, the first school day of second semester.

District human resources director Richard Kreyer is listed as the human rights officer. His phone number and email address are on the poster.

In a November interview, Kreyer said he is the human rights officer. He also said he was not involved in the handling of the Nov. 14 hijab incident.

“If there is a human right complaint, it would ultimately come to me to make sure that it was investigated, properly handled,” Kreyer said.

Section/File 413, titled “Harassment and Violence” of handbook policy instructs the school to make clear who the officer is.

“The school district shall conspicuously post the name of the human rights officer(s), including mailing addresses and telephone numbers,” the policy states.

In a Jan. 24 interview, Meyers said the human rights officer’s name had been posted since last fall.

“It’s been up there for quite a while. Part of that conversation that happened about the policy,” Meyers said. “(Section/File) 413 technically is in the employees section of the school board policy but also applies to students, and so after that clarification (the information was posted.) It was probably back in the fall. “

In a Dec. 2 interview, however, district communications director Sara Thompson said Kreyer’s name was not “conspicuously posted,” acknowledging that the school failed to adhere to this component of policy.

“My understanding is that the name (of the human rights officer) is not posted as of right now, and so we need to do that,” Thompson said.