Denver DA won’t charge Tay Anderson, records show school board spent $190,000 on investigation

Denver’s territory lawyer this week declined to record transgression charges against Tay Anderson arsenic documents amusement Denver Public Schools spent much than $190,000 connected its probe that did not substantiate intersexual battle allegations against the schoolhouse committee member.

The Denver Police Department brought a intersexual battle lawsuit against Anderson to the territory attorney’s office, but aft reviewing the facts, prosecutors decided Thursday they would beryllium incapable to beryllium the charges beyond a tenable uncertainty to a jury, said Carolyn Tyler, a spokeswoman for District Attorney Beth McCann.

“Today, DPD Detective Curtis Johnson confirmed to maine that their investigations into Director Anderson person been presented to the Denver DA’s office, who has declined to record immoderate charges,” Christopher Decker, Anderson’s attorney, said successful an email.

Anderson, 23, repeatedly has denied each intersexual battle allegations.

Meanwhile, the DPS Board of Directors spent $192,004 connected its investigation, which was launched successful April, according to documents obtained by The Denver Post done a Colorado Open Records Act request.

The largest magnitude was paid to Investigations Law Group, the extracurricular steadfast hired successful April to analyse intersexual battle and harassment allegations against Anderson. But the committee besides utilized a nationalist relations steadfast and different instrumentality steadfast to assistance it navigate the crisis, invoices from the 3 firms show.

The invoices show:

• Investigations Law Group received $160,365 for its work, which lasted from aboriginal April done mid-September
• Rockford Gray, the PR firm, was paid $25,758, with the largest measure coming successful April erstwhile the situation started. That month’s invoice was $13,737.
• Caplan and Earnest, a Boulder instrumentality steadfast that advises acquisition institutions, received $5,880

The investigative report, which was released Sept. 15, recovered that each intersexual battle allegations against Anderson were unsubstituted, including claims by a pistillate who testified earlier the authorities legislature that a predator successful the schoolhouse territory had preyed connected dozens of students. The schoolhouse committee aboriginal said she was referring to Anderson, and the investigators concluded the pistillate was not credible. No victims ever came forward.

However, Anderson’s chap schoolhouse committee members voted to censure him past week aft the study determined that helium had flirted online with a 16-year-old DPS pupil earlier realizing her property and that helium made societal media posts that were coercive oregon intimidating to imaginable witnesses successful the investigation.

The schoolhouse committee hired ILG to behaviour the probe aft Black Lives Matter 5280 successful precocious March posted an accusation from an anonymous pistillate who said Anderson had sexually assaulted her. Shortly aft that accusation was made, a radical of young women who worked with Anderson connected Never Again Colorado, a now-defunct younker gun-control group, said helium made them uncomfortable with unwanted intersexual attention.

Anderson has apologized for his behaviour portion serving arsenic president of Never Again Colorado, which folded soon aft it started successful 2018.

In the days aft the study was released, more than 1,000 DPS students walked retired of class to request Anderson’s resignation. He has vowed to stay connected the board.