STARKVILLE — Police are investigating a Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District employee after receiving reports from the Mississippi Department of Human Services.
Sgt. Brandon Lovelady, public information officer for Starkville Police Department, would not release any information regarding the nature of the incidents in the DHS report but said SPD received them Wednesday. He also would not comment on the age range of the alleged victims.
“We are in the very early stages of this investigation, and we’re not prepared to comment on any further details,” Lovelady wrote in a text to The Dispatch. “It is important to know we take this investigation very seriously and are committing the necessary investigative resources.”
SOCSD Public Information Officer Haley Montgomery would not disclose Wednesday what campus the subject of the investigation is employed or whether the person remains employed with the district.
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