FOIA REQUEST: Records Regarding Arlington Public Schools’ Violation of Title IX by Failing to Address Sexual Misconduct in a Girls’ Locker Room
| Agency | Arlington Public Schools |
|---|---|
| Type | FOIA Request |
| Issue | Title IX |
| Tracking | |
| Date | Feb 25, 2025 |
In September 2024, community members began to complain to APS staff, including to APS's Director of Aquatics Management Helen Machado, that a man was loitering in the girls' locker room at the Washington Liberty Aquatics Center, an indoor pool located at APS's Washington-Liberty High School, and was exposing his genitalia to anyone walking through the entrance. Despite being informed of the suspect's sexual harassment of girls and women by multiple parents, it appears that APS and its employees did nothing to protect the children in their care or, for that matter, any girls or women using its pool facilities from being exposed to the suspect's genitals in private spaces reserved for females. The public has a right to know more details about APS's lack of immediate response to complaints about a sexual predator exposing himself to girls and women in the girls' locker room at the Washington-Liberty Aquatics Center and the later decision of APS staff and leadership to implement ineffectual new policies in response to these crimes rather than reconsider their policy allowing all individuals to use intimate facilities that align with their claimed "gender identity."
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