{"id":40218,"date":"2016-06-14T21:09:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T01:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=40218"},"modified":"2016-06-14T21:09:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T01:09:08","slug":"lee-school-board-suspends-east-lee-county-hs-employee-over-sexual-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/06\/lee-school-board-suspends-east-lee-county-hs-employee-over-sexual-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee School Board Suspends East Lee County HS Employee Over Sexual Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-37699\" title=\"ELCHS\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ELCHS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"169\" \/>Orlando Torres has been employed the Lee County School District as a security specialist since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the district is moving to fire him after an investigation earlier this year found he made inappropriate comments and sexual remarks on numerous occasions toward at least three high school students.<\/p>\n<p>Torres has repeatedly denied the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>He received a letter from the district in April notifying him he would be recommended for termination.<\/p>\n<p>The school board voted Tuesday, 5-0, to suspend him without pay until the case is heard by an administrative hearings judge.<\/p>\n<p>Torres&#8217; attorney said that could happen in August or September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orlando Torres has been employed the Lee County School District as a security specialist since 2011. Now, the district is moving to fire him after an investigation earlier this year&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":37699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}