Iowa school district sues search firm that vetted superintendent arrested by ICE last week
Des Moines, Iowa (AP) – Iowa’s largest school zone, claiming that the company is not properly veterinarian, said that he has filed a lawsuit against the consulting company he hired to identify the supervisor candidates. Arrested by immigration authorities last week.
Des Moines public schools hired JG Consulting in 2022 to facilitate the search for leadership, which led Roberts to hire the following year.
US immigration and customs practices officials said Guyana natives are illegal in the United States and have no business authority. Federal prosecutors Paid Roberts On Thursday, although there were four fiery weapons in the United States, a competent court files, according to court files, said that the agents were wrapped in a towel inside Jeep Cherokeee, which he drew.
The complaint of the region accused the search company of violating the contract and negligence, and Jackie Norris, the Chairman of the School Board of Directors, said that the focal point was to compensate for the taxpayer dollars and to deal with reputation damage.
Norris said, “The company candidates failed the appropriate veterinary task. Ian Roberts should never be presented as a finalist,” he said. “If we knew what we know now, he would never be hired.”
James Guerra, President and CEO of Texas -based JG Consulting, did not respond immediately to phone calls or messages looking for comments on Friday. JG Consulting’s customer service line remained unanswered.
Roberts’ arrest after escaping from a traffic stop was shocked and confused the society. The students came out of their classes to protest. The community members came together to ask questions to Roberts’ lawyers, and tried to reconcile the man who was engaged with the man in the center of a national scandal and the students and the staff. Des Moines School Board, during his term of office, “the victim of deception,” he said.
Roberts, who is in federal detention in des Moines, Resigned as an inspector This week after canceling a state education board license.
Federal officials said that Roberts received a final lifting order published last year, and that a migrant judge rejected Roberts’ movement of re -opening the immigration case in April. Roberts’s lawyer Alfredo Parrish said that Roberts was under the impression that a previous lawyer’s immigration case was “successfully solved”.
The region said that Roberts has signed a form when it is hired that Roberts is a US citizen and presented it as a social security card and driver’s license verification. Regional officials also said that there is no information about a lifting order issued in 2024.
Ice officials also said that Roberts had an unprecedented weapon accusation from 2020. Pennsylvania court records show that Roberts paid a fine of 100 dollars after a small violation was found to be guilty of a firearm with a firearm in a vehicle in January 2022. A Pennsylvania Game Commission Officer had stopped him after deer hunting in Eriie district.
Roberts said that he had been a licensed hunter and weapon for a long time, that the officer had left his hunting rifle clearly to ensure that he would not feel threatened during his interactions and that he claims to be guilty to avoid distracting attention.
The region was aware of this accusation and the authorities said it was handled early.
The contract between JG Consulting, which has been existing for a long time on the website of the region and the region, said that the company is responsible for advertising, recruitment, application and resume review, public field search, full reference controls and presentation of qualified candidates. The region serves approximately 30,000 students and employs approximately 5,000 personnel.
Roberts, who had twenty years of experience in education, used the title of doctoral the title of PhD in 2021 before receiving a doctoral degree from Trident University.
Roberts In a resume, it was wrongly claimed According to the documents obtained by Associated Press with a public registration request, he applied to Morgan State University in the field of urban education leadership in the field of urban education leadership.
Although Roberts was registered in this doctoral program from 2002 to 2007, the school’s Public Relations Office confirmed that it did not receive this degree with an e -mail. According to the region, a background control during the recruitment process said the same thing by marking the resume.
The region said that the school board of directors has seen a revised resume to indicate that it has not completed its necessary thesis. However, the Board could reach the background control that warns the members against the first variance.
Norris had to bring all the positive or negative information to the attention of the Board, but failed to do so. “This is about accountability.”
