In the last decade, more than 150 teachers in Washington were disciplined for sexual misconduct.
But new reporting from Investigate West found that many of these cases weren’t easily accessible to the public.
The reason the information is hidden?
When a teacher voluntarily surrenders their license, their information in the state’s misconduct database is shielded from public view.
Nearly 45% of teachers on this database volunteered to surrender their license.
Moe Clark is a collaborative investigative journalist for IW and a Murrow News Fellow through Washington State University. She joins us to share more.
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