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Date Posted: 07:53 09/20/09 Sun
(published in, Lowell Sun, 9-20-09)
Hank Golec
By Jennifer Myers
jmyers@lowellsun.com
DRACUT -- The internal investigation into allegations that Dracut High School Vice Principal Hank Golec tampered with school surveillance equipment and secretly recorded a football practice was concluded on Friday and School Committee members are expected to receive the findings tomorrow, according to committee Chairman Matthew Sheehan.
Sheehan said he has been advised not to comment on the situation.
School Committee member Mike Miles said Superintendent of Schools W. Spencer Mullin met Friday afternoon with School Department attorneys Ed Morris and Kevin Murphy and possibly an attorney representing Golec.
"I have not heard from anybody of authority what the outcome of that meeting was," Miles said.
Last week, a Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association spokesman acknowledged that the organization received an anonymous letter and DVD from someone claiming that Dracut's head football coach, Jeff Moore, was conducting out-of-season practices.
The MIAA spokesman, Paul Wetzel, said the letter and video were forwarded to Dracut High Principal James Generoso. According to sources at the school, the video showed students during weightlifting and conditioning sessions.
Wetzel referred to the MIAA handbook, which states that those activities are permissible as long as they are not sports-specific, are sponsored by the school and open to all students, not just those involved in a particular sport.
Several sources told The Sun that officials believe the letter and DVD were sent to the MIAA by Golec and not by a parent of one of the students.
Golec has spent 34 years working for the Dracut schools as a teacher, varsity baseball coach and administrator.
According to a source, after reviewing the DVD, school officials, including Generoso and Athletic Director Tim Woods, determined that the video was taped on a school-owned camera.
When officials tried to examine the equipment on which the video was believed to have been recorded, the machine was found to be inoperable.
Sheehan called for an investigation into the allegations last week.
Golec did not return a call seeking comment.
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