The Salt Lake City School District school board again declined Tuesday to offer any reasoning as to why Superintendent Timothy Gadson \u2014 the first Black educator selected to lead a Utah school district \u2014 was placed on administrative leave last month.
Joel Organista, a former member of the Salt Lake City School Board, filed a request at federal court this month, to serve his prison time at a federal facility instead of a Utah state prison.
Reactions are mixed after Salt Lake County Commission’s decision to strike down a health order requiring kindergarten through sixth grade students to wear masks.
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The Salt Lake City School District’s office building is pictured in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. Joel-Lehi Organista, 29, a member of the Salt Lake City Board of Education, was was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on Wednesday, June 2, 2021, for investigation of eight counts of sexual exploitation of a minor.
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A member of the Salt Lake City Board of Education has been arrested and accused of possessing child pornography.
Joel-Lehi Organista, 29, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on Wednesday for investigation of eight counts of sexual exploitation of a minor.