FULLERTON – A Troy High School senior has been reinstated to the student-government vice-presidency post that he won last spring, officials announced Monday, some four months after he was barred from assuming the job because he broke into a school database to reveal his teacher had rigged the student election.

Senior Jacob Bigham, 17, will assume the position for the 2012-13 school year when classes begin Aug. 27, the Fullerton Joint Union High School District said. Meanwhile, the actions of multiple Troy staff members remain “under review” by the district, as officials “determine appropriate disciplinary consequences,” the district said Monday in a statement.

“Site administration did not respond in a timely manner to the failure of specific staff members to appropriately oversee the election process or to the staff member responsible for changing the election results,” the district’s statement says.

“This delayed response sent an inaccurate message to the students and the larger (Troy High) community that the district condoned the changing of the election results; in no way does the district condone the changing of election results or the failure to oversee the election process as articulated in the constitution of the (Troy High) student body.”

Troy High Principal Margaret Buchan declined to comment Monday.

District Superintendent George Giokaris said Monday he could not discuss which Troy staffers were under investigation, citing employee confidentiality rights.

But he pledged to discuss the election flap with each of the district’s high school leadership classes this fall.

“We’ll find out if there’s an interest among the (Troy) student body” as a whole in discussing the issue, Giokaris added.

Bigham revealed in April that the candidates whom student-government faculty adviser Jenny Redmond named as student-body president and vice president for 2012-13 weren’t the top vote-getters. He also confessed that he used a faculty password to break into a Web-based school database from his home computer.

Bigham was immediately suspended for five days, stripped of his current post as student-body secretary and barred from assuming the student-body vice presidency he’d won for 2012-13. Redmond continued teaching the student-government class for the remainder of the school year.

After the Register chronicled the Troy election controversy in July, school district officials announced they were reopening an investigation into the matter.

The district concluded Monday that some Troy staffers had been under the mistaken belief that Troy’s student-government constitution granted administrators the unilateral authority to alter the results of student voting.

Consequently, the district’s code of ethics for the teaching profession was violated, as was the district’s moral and civic values code, the district said.

Bigham did not immediately return a phone call Monday seeking comment.

Bigham announced last week that he and his parents had asked the school district to consider reinstating him this fall as student-body vice president, as well as expunging the five-day suspension from his record.

The superintendent said Monday that officials were still reviewing Bigham’s suspension appeal.

Redmond, who did not attend last week’s school board meeting, has refused all requests for comment. Although she resigned as the student-government teacher at the end of the school year in June, Redmond continues to be employed full time at Troy as a special-education teacher.

Redmond likely was not formally disciplined during the district’s initial investigation in April. Last month, the Register filed a public records request to obtain all documentation on any employee who was disciplined in the incident. The Fullerton district responded by saying it had no such disciplinary records.

School districts and other public agencies are required to release employee disciplinary records in cases where compelling public interest outweighs an employee’s privacy rights, federal courts have ruled.

Bigham, an honors student who aspires to attend UC Berkeley, has said he has no regrets over what he did, pointing out that his peers in student government long believed Redmond was tampering with the election results and that he felt the only way to definitively find out was to access the raw tallies himself.

State Assemblyman Chris Norby, R-Fullerton, is considering introducing state legislation in the coming months to clarify that election results, even at the high school level, cannot be altered.

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