POULSBO, Wash. — The superintendent of the North Kitsap school district is on paid administrative leave after video surfaced of her allegedly stealing campaign signs.
Superintendent Laurynn Evans is under investigation after she was accused of taking signs opposing a school bond measure appearing on the special election ballot next week.
Surveillance video shows a woman uprooting one of the signs in question. Signs against the bond measure were removed so many times that the property owners set up cameras to see what was happening to them.
A police report said officers tracked the license plates from a truck that was shown at the scene back to Evans. She told officers that the woman in the video was not her, and she was being framed.
Unconvinced, parents showed up to a North Kitsap School Board meeting on Thursday night to express their thoughts on the situation. Multiple told the board they want Evans removed.
"Are you rewarding her to leave with pay? It's our money. We're asking for her to leave with no pay during the investigation and also to demand to resign," one parent said at the meeting. "We don't want the superintendent even here in school."
The Kitsap County prosecutor is looking into the case and deciding whether or not charges should be filed.
The bond measure at the center of the sign debacle would rebuild two elementary schools, continue the modernization of Poulsbo Middle School and eliminate the use of portables across the district, according to North Kitsap's website.