âWhy should this investigation be secret?â
Madison school district wonât release report on former East teacher involved in hidden camera incident
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District officials are refusing to release a 2020 report detailing an investigation into a former Madison East High School educator.Â
David Kruchten allegedly placed hidden cameras in the hotel bathrooms of students he was chaperoning on school trips. Students found these cameras concealed in smoke detectors, alarm clocks and air fresheners while at a conference in Minneapolis in October 2019. Kruchten was arrested in January 2020 and faces state and federal charges for attempting to produce child pornography.
Promising in February 2020 to review âevery detailâ of the incident, then-superintendent Jane Belmore told parents in an email that a private attorney had been hired to conduct an independent, internal review of the incident. That report was completed in June 2020, but the school dist