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How did Wanda Erb miss this email on the WASD.org server?

April 1, 2021 By
Photo: Wanda Erb, WASD Right to Know Law Officer
The following is the result of a nearly 33-months long investigation

into the Williamsport Area High School Baseball Team trip
to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina in the spring of 2018.

This story is graphic and contains details related to multiple indecent sexual assaults.

The author and editor of this story have made the editorial decision to not publish the names of the individuals under the age of 18 at the time of the incident who have been clearly identified as committing these acts in this case since they have not been formally charged with a crime.

A Baseball Story In The Birthplace Of Little League Baseball

IF NOTHING HAPPENED IN MYRTLE BEACH

WHY WON’T THE WASD TELL US THE STORY?

PART XXVI –

“How did Wanda Erb miss this email on the WASD.org server? 

It was always there.”

By Todd Bartley, TalkWilliamsport.com

News@TalkWilliamsport.com

The Pennsylvania Office of Open Records along with Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro will now have the opportunity to determine if Wanda Erb committed perjury or swore out false statements to a state agency in Right to Know Law responses in her role as the RTKL Officer for the Williamsport Area School District.

For nearly three full years, through a blizzard of very simply worded Right to Know Law requests, TalkWilliamsport.com has sought records relevant to the 2018 WAHS baseball trip in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina where “criminal sexual misconduct” has been proven to have occurred and it was captured on video.

Recently, ALLEGED PERPETRATOR #1  was criminally charged by South Carolina authorities in the 2018 baseball team incident.

The WASD early on developed a strategy to deny access to clearly public records making arguments that have been proven over time to be patently false in order to keep the records secret.

After nearly three full years of continually asking for a “room assignment” list, a multitude of appeals, previous records mediation sessions and attorneys involved on both sides; the dam burst today with a record that was always in the possession of the WASD.

THEY LIED!

As previously reported on March 12, 2021, “UPDATE: WASD acknowledges existence of “room assignments” email, contradicts prior Wanda Erb affidavit”
On Friday afternoon, the WASD filed six “Right-to-Know Law Extension Notices” regarding an email that is already in the possession of this Requester and heretofore the WASD has denied its very existence.
It is interesting to note, each extensions was forward time stamped at 5:43, 5:44, 5:46, 5:47, 5:48 and 5:49 p.m. today and were received around 1:00 p.m. Friday afternoon.
Why were the responses with “Right-to-Know Law Extension Notices” forward time stamped?
Regarding the specific “room assignments” emails noted in multiple “Right-to-Know Law Extension Notices” it reads: “The request requires the retrieval of a record from a remote location.”
You know, the same email records Wanda Erb previously asserted under the penalty of perjury from “A Baseball Story In The Birthplace Of Little League Baseball” – PART I

From the June 17, 2019 RTKL Request

2). The hotel room assignments as outlined by the WASD Baseball Coaching Staff for the baseball team trip to Myrtle Beach during the 2017-2018 school year.

WASD Responded in the July 18, 2019 RTKL denial

  1. Hotel room assignments – Denied because no record exists.

 

Erb continued with the same narrative in subsequent sworn affidavits as the same record was requested from the WASD on numerous occasions.

On Thursday, April 1, 2021 the Williamsport Area School District finally provided the “room assignments” email that Wanda Erb previously claimed “no record exists”.
On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 1:14 PM SHELLY GEHR wrote:
Please see below message from Coach Miller regarding player/parent meetings tomorrow. Thanks
———- Forwarded message ———
From: Ryan Miller
Date: Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 1:01 PM
Subject: To: Shelly Gehr
There will be a mandatory player meeting tomorrow for players who make the team at 430 in the library. It will last approx an hour. There is a mandatory parent meeting following at 6 pm. It will last roughly 30-45 minutes depending on questions. Each player who makes the team is required to have a parent present.
Sent from my iPhone
On Sunday, March 18, 2018 at 8:23:04 p.m., the room assignments email was sent to no less than:
Brandon Pardoe WAHS head principal;
rpardoe@swasd.org
(wife of WAHS head principal – previously provided room assignment list through SWASD RTKL request);
Randy Zangara WAHS assistant baseball coach;
Sean McCann WAHS athletic director;
Ryan Miller WAHS head baseball coach;
Joel Worthington WAHS assistant baseball coach;
t m (believed to be WAHS assistant baseball coach Tariq Moore); 
From:SHELLY GEHR
To: Joel Worthington; Ryan Miller; Brandon Pardoe; rpardoe@swasd.org; Randy Zangara; Sean McCann; t m (believed to be assistant coach Tariq Moore);
Subject:Re: Room assignments
Date:Sunday, March 18, 2018 8:23:04 PM
Attachments: Myrtle Team Schedule.pdf (attachment not provided by WASD)
Below are the room assignments for the upcoming trip.
Coach Miller has decided to just take the boys shopping (as a team) for their breakfast food and snacks for each room once they get down there.
He will be given money from the booster club for these items.
Also attached is the meal itinerary for the week. (Scroll to the very bottom of the email)
We are asking that each parent send $100-150 dollars with your son for spending money for the week.
They will be given snacks bags before they get on the bus Friday for on the way down. If you have any questions you can text me at (SHELLY GEHR CELL NUMBER REDACTED IN PART 570-___-____).
Room 1. – (6 NAMES REDACTED BY WASD)
Room 2 – (5 NAMES REDACTED BY WASD)
Room 3 – (5 NAMES REDACTED BY WASD)
Room 4 – (6 NAMES REDACTED BY WASD)
Room 5 – (6 NAMES REDACTED BY WASD)
Room 6 – (6 NAMES REDACTED BY WASD)
If the cell phones of WAHS head principal Brandon Pardoe and former head baseball coach Ryan Miler among other WASD employees and coaches completely exonerate them in any knowledge of the “criminal sexual misconduct” and other incidents that occurred on the 2018 WAHS baseball trip in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; why have they refused to release them under the Right to Know Law?
How much has keeping those secrets cost the taxpayers in the WASD?
Since everyone is now paying attention, where is the room list identifying where all the coaches stayed in the Atlantica Resort?
Is it missing since coaches stayed in other hotels?
This must be the WASD doing WASD things, the Right to Know Law request never specified “students rooms.”
Who was keeping an eye on nearly 40 kids out of state and without adult supervision?
Why is the 2018 WAHS baseball roster missing from the WASD athletics website? Could that cost certain student athletes athletic scholarships in the future?
The Williamsport Area High School baseball team is still playing this season and the next WASD School Board meeting is schedule for Tuesday, April 13, at 6:oo p.m. in the Williamsport Area High School auditorium with a capacity of 400 people due to COVID-19 guidelines and mask requirements.
It may be a holiday weekend, however the current members of the WASD school board have some significant soul searching to do in the revelation of employees disclosing a room assignment list that was said to not exist and yet they received it on their WASD email inbox.
Jennifer Lake and your fellow WASD school board members, as they say in the NFL Draft are “on the clock” and the world is awaiting your wake of George Floyd incident warp speed like response.
“The Beginning of the End” is forthcoming.

LINKS TO THE SERIES PUBLISHED BY Talk Williamsport

WAHS Principal Pardoe immediately responded to Ricky Stryker threat raised by Coach Ryan Miller

Marc Schefsky, WASD School Board member announces intention to resign

WASD School Board candidate petitions obtained, connections run deep

WASD School Board to discuss vacant board seat tonight

Lycoming County District Attorney office confirms receipt of Marc Schefsky non-WASD residency complaint

WASD school board removes 2023 Disney band trip from agenda

Residents circulate petition for immediate removal of Marc Schefsky from WASD school board

Nancy Somers resigns from WASD school board

BREAKING NEWS: Resignations to be announced at the WASD School Board meeting tonight

WASD solicitor Fred Holland wants $20,000 retainer and a raise for ’21-’22

UPDATE: WASD acknowledges existence of “room assignments” email, contradicts prior Wanda Erb affidavit

UPDATE: WASD has 48-hour deadline to respond to Right to Know Law requests

WASD School Board major changes are forthcoming

OP-ED: Another Embarrassing Display of Willful Ignorance by the WASD school board

OP-ED: Long past time for Dr. Bowers to resign as WASD Superintendent

BREAKING NEWS: Is the WASD finally acknowledging Myrtle Beach victims with new policy?

Marc Schefsky WASD school board resignation could be the least of his issues

BREAKING NEWS: Marc Schefsky resigning from school board after WASD residency questioned

Residency of WASD School Board member in question

BREAKING NEWS: WAHS student criminally charged by South Carolina authorities in 2018 baseball team incident

UPDATE: Major development in the 2018 WAHS baseball team “criminal sexual misconduct” case

WASD lack of response clock posted

WASD fails to acknowledge “victims” in Myrtle Beach incident; uses death of George Floyd as distraction

A Baseball Story In The Birthplace Of Little League Baseball – PART XXV

A Baseball Story In The Birthplace Of Little League Baseball – PART XXIV

A Baseball Story In The Birthplace Of Little League Baseball – PART XXIII

A Baseball Story In The Birthplace Of Little League Baseball – PART XXII

A Baseball Story In The Birthplace Of Little League Baseball – PART XXI

A Baseball Story In The Birthplace Of Little League Baseball – PART XX

A Baseball Story In The Birthplace Of Little League Baseball – PART XIX

A Baseball Story In The Birthplace Of Little League Baseball – PART XVIII

BREAKING NEWS: PA AG Press Office confirms receipt of Criminal Sexual Misconduct referral from DA Gardner

A Baseball Story In The Birthplace Of Little League Baseball – PART XVII

A Baseball Story In The Birthplace Of Little League Baseball – PART XVI

EXCLUSIVE: AG Shapiro press office on referral: “If and when we receive it, it will be promptly reviewed”

A Baseball Story In The Birthplace Of Little League Baseball – PART XVII

BREAKING NEWS: PA AG Press Office confirms receipt of Criminal Sexual Misconduct referral from DA Gardner

UPDATE: Charges filed in Greater Latrobe Junior High hazing case cited in “A Baseball Story”

A Baseball Story In The Birthplace Of Little League Baseball – PART XVI

EXCLUSIVE: AG Shapiro press office on referral: “If and when we receive it, it will be promptly reviewed”

BREAKING NEWS: District Attorney Gardner refers Myrtle Beach case to PA Attorney General – PART XV

A Baseball Story In The Birthplace Of Little League Baseball – PART XIV

A Baseball Story In The Birthplace Of Little League Baseball – PART XIII

A Baseball Story In The Birthplace Of Little League Baseball – PART XII

A Baseball Story In The Birthplace Of Little League Baseball – PART XI

A Baseball Story In The Birthplace Of Little League Baseball – PART X

A Baseball Story In The Birthplace Of Little League Baseball – PART IX

A Baseball Story In The Birthplace Of Little League Baseball – PART VIII

A Baseball Story In The Birthplace Of Little League Baseball – PART VII

A Baseball Story In The Birthplace Of Little League Baseball – PART VI

A Baseball Story In The Birthplace Of Little League Baseball – PART V

A Baseball Story In The Birthplace Of Little League Baseball – PART IV

A Baseball Story In The Birthplace Of Little League Baseball – PART III

A Baseball Story In The Birthplace Of Little League Baseball – PART II

A Baseball Story In The Birthplace Of Little League Baseball – PART I

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