BLOOM TOWNSHIP | Still unaware of who is responsible for putting an unauthorized recording device in the office of former Sandridge Elementary School Principal Leroy Coleman, Sandridge District 172 is looking into having a company check other areas of the school for bugging devices.

Interim Superintendent Diane Dyer-Dawson recently told the School Board she received an $8,000 price quote from one company, Fact Finders Group, Inc. in Park Forest, for an electronic surveillance sweep of the school.

The company would check such areas as offices, the media center, teachers lounge, locker rooms, and student and faculty restrooms for eavesdropping devices, transmitters, receivers and cameras, Dyer-Dawson said.

She said the security of the school was seriously compromised when a camera was secretly placed in Coleman's office and a DVD recording began circulating, showing Coleman engaged in sex acts in his office with former teacher Janet Lofton at various times and dates between December and January.

Former substitute teacher and aide Anjayla Reed also appears in the video on a separate occasion being hugged and touched by Coleman. Coleman and Lofton resigned their positions April 12, the same day the recording began circulating, and Reed resigned shortly afterward.

Dyer-Dawson said the district continues to get calls from parents asking what will be done to make sure there are no other recording devices still in the building.

In June, former School Board member Aurazela Majors asked what the board is doing to find out who is responsible for the recording. Parents asked similar questions at a board meeting in May.

Board member Cheryl Ward has said she would like a complete sweep, as well as routine checks, conducted to make sure there are no other unauthorized cameras at the school.

Cook County sheriff's police investigated the matter but have not found the camera or determined who planted it in a heating duct above the principal's office. Police have said no criminal charges will be filed against the person or persons responsible for the camera's placement or against Coleman or Lofton.

Investigators found no signs of a break-in or forced entry, and because the DVD doesn't contain audio, it doesn't fall under the state's eavesdropping statute.

Coleman's attorney Raymond Wigell has said he never expected any criminal charges to be brought against his client but hoped there would be an internal investigation into who sought the taping and who put the camera in Coleman's office.