Two Mercer County School District IT workers facing charges of illegally accessing students’ medical records will return to court in May.
Amberly Norton and Andrea Long, both 41, had a pretrial conference scheduled for Monday in Mercer County Circuit Court. Both cases were continued to May 11. The delay was attributed to the defense.
Norton and Long were arrested in September, along with Mercer County School District Superintendent Tim Farquer, following an Aledo Police Department investigation into a complaint accusing Mercer County School District employees of illegally accessing students’ medical records. Norton and Long are accused of committing the alleged offenses beginning on July 19, 2019.
Long, Norton and Farquer are each charged with a Class 3 felony of official misconduct and Class A misdemeanors of unauthorized access to medical records and computer tampering.
Farquer is due back in court on March 9.