Peoria school board meeting moved after raid

Thanks for joining us tonight at nine. Our top story parents in the Peoria Unified School District not getting the answers they wanted to hear at tonight's governing board meeting. Public comment was canceled following yesterday's police raid at district headquarters in connection with a teacher sex scandal. Fox stands Andrew Christensen attended tonight's meeting. He joins us live now. They have to be disappointed because there are a lot of angry parents. Yeah, there were definitely some angry parents. The district actually moved the meeting right here to Marshall Ranch Elementary School because the district was served a search warrant. That search warrant actually closed the district operations for a few days. And since there was no public comment, really, the parents didn't get to weigh in on the investigation into Angela Berlaka and Haley Beck. Just have fun, make new memories with friends. That was Haley Becker senior year in 2015 when Fox 10 News interviewed her at Centennial High School. The Peoria Police Department continues investigating her and another former teacher Angela Berlaka for allegedly engaging in sexual relationships with the same male student at Centennial High School. Not just the student and the teachers involved. It impacted all the students at Centennial. Beck is also accused of sending the student thousands of texts offering him sex and giving the student cash, drugs and alcohol while tampering with his grades. Berlaka allegedly sent the victim explicit videos. I don't condone at all what the teachers did. I would never want my child in that environment. The board fired Beck and Berlaka forfeited her teaching license. While police have recommended charges so far, neither woman has been arrested. The Maricopa County Attorney's Office is currently reviewing both cases. The district says that it has been fully cooperating with the investigation. They say they were surprised by Monday's search warrant. The search warrant might be looking for any sort of notes on campus, any sort of emails that might be in their email system, any sort of evidence that could help prove the case for the prosecution. At tonight's meeting, the board canceled public comment. That's never happened before. This is a regular scheduled meeting, not just a public hearing, but a regular scheduled meeting and that should have not been removed. However, the board president Jeff Toby says the intent wasn't malicious. So there was no attempt to silence or shut out the community. Um, this is specifically the purpose of this public hearing. Parents say they are upset. Parents just don't understand why, you know, we come to ask questions and removing the public comment doesn't allow us the opportunity to do that. And the district did not talk about the investigation at tonight's board meeting. They did not have an agenda item item on it and they were not planning to. But the district says that parents are going to be able to do a public comment session on Thursday, July 16th. That's when they'll be able to weigh in on the investigation or whatever they would like to weigh in on reporting live in Glendale. Andrew Christensen, Fox 10 news.