FORKS — The Clallam County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a report of questionable communications between a student and a teacher at Forks High School.
The investigation was triggered when a parent called to report concerns about the content of social media communication between the parent’s child and the staff member, Brian King, chief criminal deputy for the Sheriff’s Office, said Wednesday.
On Tuesday, Quillayute Valley School District Superintendent Diana Reaume said a third-party investigator will begin working in the school Monday.
She declined to specify the nature of the incident being examined or who is being investigated.
The Forks Police Department has also been notified of the probe, Reaume said.
None of the parties in the investigation has been identified.
King said the student, a minor, will not be identified at any point.
Officials also would not disclose any information about the nature of the communications or when they took place.
“We don’t have evidence of a crime based on the social media [postings] we have,” King said.
Investigators expect to complete the investigation Friday, he said.
King said more information will be released when the Sheriff’s Office investigation is complete, and an additional internal investigation is also being performed by the Quillayute Valley School District.
“It’s a personnel issue in the high school,” he said.
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