Overview
- Rhonda Garrow filed a notice of claim and plans to sue the Salmon River Central School District over her nonverbal son's alleged confinement in a wooden box.
- Photos posted by former board member Chrissy Jacobs in mid-December showed at least three such enclosures, which attorneys for the family say the district has removed and disassembled.
- The district placed the special education director, a principal, and a teacher on leave, and it named an interim superintendent after the prior superintendent was reassigned to home duties.
- St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Police confirmed an investigation, and a State Police spokeswoman said the matter is being addressed by tribal authorities.
- The family’s attorneys allege the enclosure was included in the child’s behavior plan without parental consent, with requirements that he work and eat inside, claims now under review by an outside law firm.