District 67 Will Post Report on Deer Path Middle School Principal Sexting Case

The results of an independent investigation into the handling of former by Superintendent Harry Griffith and three District 67 school board members will be presented by Ronald Safer at the Feb. 28 meeting, according to Lake Forest School District 67.

The meeting is set for 7 p.m. in the Board Room at Lake Forest High School's West Campus.

Safer, a former prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, was hired by the District in December and asked to investigate three areas:

• To determine whether the school district’s policies and procedures were followed.

• To determine if those policies and procedures need to be revised and what are the recommendations for the revisions.

• To determine if any wrongdoing was committed with the matter at that time.

after new information came out Nov. 16 in a Chicago Tribune article detailing Steinert's conviction for misdemeanor harassment by electronic communication for sexually explicit text messages, voice mails and a lewd photo from his school district-issued cell phone to a 22-year-old student, who was an intern with the working at Deer Path.

The video of the presentation will be placed on the district website http://www.d67.org and will be available on LF Cable TV shortly following the meeting date.

The written report will also be made available to the public on the district website.

• Read previous stories on the Steinert case.