Overview
- Students found a cellphone recording them in a Tracy High locker room on Thursday, Sept. 10, stopped the recording, deleted the video, and gave the device to a teacher.
- Tracy Police detectives traced the phone to 48-year-old teacher and head varsity football coach Jeffrey Pribble and arrested him on campus on Friday, Sept. 11.
- The Tracy Unified School District placed Pribble on administrative leave and said it is cooperating with a separate internal inquiry as criminal investigators continue their work.
- Police have not released specific charges publicly and are asking anyone with information to contact Detective Brian Cockey, Detective Joseph Bourassa, or the department tip line.
- Pribble has coached at Tracy High since 2004 and became head coach in 2021, and officials have publicly thanked students and officers who reported the incident while stressing steps to protect student safety.