Unlike Dyer, former board members kept confidentiality

On Dec. 6, 2010, Larry Cohen and I brought charges to the Howard County Board of Education Ethics Committee concerning board member Allen Dyer's interaction with the student member of the board. A hearing on our charges was not held until March 3, 2011. The decision was not reported until April 12, 2011. We were advised that we were to maintain confidentiality until the Ethics Board made the results public.

Mr. Cohen and myself have made no public or private statements. However, Mr. Dyer has on several occasions published information and documents on the Internet and has made public statements with impunity.

The Board of Ethics has stonewalled our requests for a date at which we may also speak publicly. We regret that we have had to withhold information from the public that would give them information they deserve to have on the entire sequence of events.

Patricia S. Gordon

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Patricia S. Gordon is a former member of the county Board of Education.