VIGO COUNTY, Ind. – The Vigo County School Corporation has terminated the employment of a school protection officer for what they’re calling inappropriate social media postings.
Local media, school officials and others received a package from area resident Lyman Roberts.
That package contained printed social media posts from school protection officer, and Vigo County Sheriff’s deputy, Mike Anderson.
Some of those posts referenced the confederate flag, blackface, and potentially racist language.
The school corporation released a letter of termination sent to Anderson.
You can read that letter here.
He had been a protection officer at Sugar Creek Consolidated Elementary and Mclean High School.
News10 reports that Sheriff John Plasse said Anderson did not break any law nor office policy, but he doesn’t condone or agree with any of the posts in question.
Roberts admitted to the Tribune-Star that there may be a personal conflict between himself and Anderson but said that did not make the posts right.
Roberts was convicted of theft in 2015 in connection with uncompleted work contracted by United Way in wake of the 2008 floods.