The start of a bench trial for the superintendent of the Mercer County School District has been pushed back one day.
Tim Farquer’s trial was scheduled to begin on Wednesday morning in Mercer County Circuit Court, but another bench trial that was originally scheduled to conclude on Tuesday has continued into Wednesday. The first day of Farquer’s trial is now Thursday.
Farquer is facing four Class 3 felony counts of official misconduct and two Class A misdemeanors of computer tampering and unauthorized access to medical records. He was arrested last September, along with Mercer County School District IT workers Amberly Norton and Andrea Long, following an Aledo Police Department investigation into a complaint accusing district employees of illegally accessing students’ medical records.
Farquer has been on paid administrative leave since his arrest.