Natalie Neysa Alund, and Jason Gonzales

The Tennessean

Individual videos found on the hard drive belonging to a Nashville school teacher accused of recording elementary school girls undressing were titled by each student's first name, according to court papers posted online Tuesday.

The documents also reveal Metro police investigators don't yet know if all the recordings of 40 school girls took place in a music room closet at Napier Elementary or elsewhere.

According to an arrest warrant, during a Sept. 8 interview with detectives, Jarrett Jones, who taught music at the elementary from the fall of 2011 to 2015, admitted he used a video recording device in the closet of the music room. Police say Jones, arrested Monday on felony child porn charges, instructed young girls participating in school plays or choir performances to change clothes in the music room’s closet, where he placed the hidden device.

"The defendant stated he would place a hidden video recording device that appeared to be a thumb drive in the closet and video recorded the students changing clothing," police detective Michael Adkins wrote in the warrant. "The defendant admitted to recording around 20 Napier Elementary students and to having those videos on an external hard drive at his residence."

"Each video appeared to be titled the first name of the student in the video and appeared to be taken in the closet at Napier Elementary," Adkins wrote in the warrant. "There appears to be at least 40 different minor females in the videos."

Adkins reported he viewed the videos and confirmed "almost all of them" were created in the closet of the music room at Napier Elementary.

It was not immediately known Tuesday where the remaining videos were recorded, but police spokesman Don Aaron said investigators continued to analyze those videos so detectives can determine where they occurred.

Jones, 30, taught music most recently at Antioch High School, and was placed on administrative leave Sept. 9, one day after the court documents say he admitted to recording the girls.

Since Jones' arrest, Metro Nashville Public Schools has been responding to questions about the investigation and student safety. The district plans to hold parent meetings at Antioch High School and Napier Elementary to address any concerns.

"We want to help the community process and reassure parents that their children are safe," said Joe Bass, district spokesman. "And we want to ensure parents we take proper steps to ensure student safety."

Jones was arrested at his Nashville home after police executed a search warrant there and discovered the hard drive. During a forensic examination detectives found more than 50 videos in a folder titled “Napier.” Also on the hard drive were more than 1,000 sexually explicit images of minors that appear to have been downloaded from an external source unrelated to Napier Elementary.

Charged with two counts of especially aggravated sexual exploitation of minors and three counts of sexual exploitation of minors, Jones remained jailed Tuesday on $100,000 bond.

Online records show he is slated to be arraigned Friday on the charges and he is represented by the public defender's office.

When reached by phone Tuesday, Jones' family, including his wife, declined to comment.

Police: Nashville teacher secretly recorded elementary students as they changed

Bass said the district plans to fire Jones. The district, he said, will follow state policy in reporting the arrest to the Tennessee State Board of Education for a teacher's license revocation hearing.

Personnel records obtained by The Tennessean show Jones has never been in trouble with the district.

After his arrest, questions on social media arose on whether the police and district officials should have notified parents before investigators interviewed students.

But under state law, police can interview students without parental permission. And the district sent home letters and made calls to parents after interviews with students.

Nonetheless, parent Michael Ewing, who has two kids at Napier, said he wished parents had been present when police interviewed the students. Some parents were notified by students about what happened, he said.

"The parents should have been present because it makes the kids more comfortable to talk," he said.

He added the news scared the whole community.

"At this point the neighborhood is very concerned and many parents have talked to children to see if there were any situations that they were uncomfortable with," Ewing said.

Reach Natalie Neysa Alund at 615-259-8072 and on Twitter @nataliealund. Reach Jason Gonzales at 615-259-8075 and on Twitter @ByJasonGonzales.