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Fired High School Librarian’s Legal Record ClearedA Pennsylvania high school librarian who was fired two years ago for selling the school’s discarded back issues of National Geographic to pay for new computers will have his legal record cleared following a ruling by the state Superior Court.Adam M. Romanik sold the magazines, which court documents say “had been consigned to the trash,” on Ebay for $325. He then added $300 of his own money to purchase six computers on Ebay for the Susquenita High School library in Duncannon. Court records state the computers are still in use at the school. The school district filed a complaint with the district attorney’s office on December 4, 2003, and Romanik was charged with library theft and misapplication of entrusted property, the Harrisburg Patriot-News reported December 9. Romanik made a deal with the district attorney’s office to resign in return for dropping the charges, but the arrest remained on his record. The Superior Court recently ruled that Romanik’s record should be expunged, the Patriot-News said, finding that while his act was “not cleared sufficiently through the proper channels” it did “demonstrate the creativity and altruism so vital to our public schools. It is our desire that this case not reinforce the adage ’No good deed goes unpunished.’” Perry County District Attorney Charles Chenot argued that if Romanik’s record were cleared, “future school districts would not know what they were getting into with him,” and added, “Our concern was he was going to turn around and go somewhere else and do this again and there would be no record of why he left his employment.” Romanik’s attorney, Terrence McGowan, said his client has been unable to find another library job and is working in the computer field. Posted December 16, 2005. |
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