The Abingdon-Avon School District’s director of technology turned himself in on three counts of felony eavesdropping yesterday.
According to court documents, the first count alleges 56-year-old Mark Rogers did not have consent from a District 276 teacher on Feb. 11 when he used a web camera to record a private conversation between him and the teacher.
Counts two and three allege Rogers intercepted private electronic communications that he was not a party to between Jan. 29 and Feb. 5.
The charges are Class 4 felonies worth one to three years in prison.
Rogers’s bond was set at $15,000. He posted $1,500 and was released from the Knox County jail yesterday.
His next court date is July 22.
Rogers has been on administrative leave for months during a data breach investigation at District 276.
At the last few district school board meetings, members of the Abingdon-Avon community have expressed their frustration with the perceived lack of transparency of the board and Superintendent Chad Willis regarding the investigation.
