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OXNARD, Calif.— from www.mercurynews.com – A Southern California junior high school teacher whose school board voted to fire her when video surfaced of her performing in a pornographic video planned to fight her dismissal, her attorney said Friday.
Stacie Halas, 32, who teaches science to seventh and eighth graders at Richard B. Haydock Intermediate School, was put on paid administrative leave after the video shot before she was a teacher appeared last month. On Wednesday night Oxnard School District trustees voted unanimously in a closed session to dismiss her.
Halas, who on Friday had yet to be served with dismissal papers, has 30 days to appeal the decision by requesting a hearing with an administrative law judge, and her lawyer said she will.
“We disagree with the decision by the board to dismiss or seek the dismissal of Miss Halas,” attorney Richard Schwab told the Ventura County Star.
“It is our intention at this time to vigorously contest the charges.”
Schwab said the video was shot in 2009 before Halas was a teacher, and she broke no laws in making it.
“The type of conduct she was engaged in was lawful conduct in a business which, while others may disagree with its content, is very vibrant in both Los Angeles as well as the state of California,” Schwab said.
Student claims that the teacher was moonlighting as a porn star were initially dismissed after school officials said they couldn’t find
any images of her on the Internet.
The investigation was quickly restarted, however, when other teachers showed administrators downloads from smartphones in early March.
Superintendent Jeff Chancer said the video was “hardcore pornography.”
School board President Veronica Robles-Solis told the Star on Friday that trustees had no choice but to vote for the dismissal.
We must do what’s right for students, staff and parents by maintaining the focus on education,” she said.