Westport Employee Arrested For Recording Female Student
On 04/02/19, School Resource Officer Wooldridge observed Westport Public School maintenance employee Paul Telep in the Staples High School cafeteria. Telep appeared to be recording students, particularly a juvenile female, with his work cell phone. SRO Wooldridge confronted Telep about the suspicious incident and notified school officials. Staples administrators later seized the phone, as it was property of the school system. A forensic search of the phone conducted by Westport detectives revealed Telep had deleted seven videos. The videos all featured the same female student recorded on different dates/times, including the incident in which Telep was observed by School Resource Officer Woolridge. Both the student and her mother were notified and the student advised she was unaware she had been…