Summary of Facts Police Report released to the ACLU in March 2023 FINDINGS: The report identified two troubling aspects of Officer Parthum’s behavior. The report is over 300 pages. Here are some of the troublesome areas and a few of the factual examples of that behavior that are contained in the report. Aggressive Behavior Towards Women: Example 1-Officer Parthum was put in protective custody for getting in a fight at a resturant after being asked to leave for inappropriate behavior towards a married woman. Officer Parthum struck an employee of the Restarant who decided not to press charges. Officer Parthum was told to go back to his hotel by the Police. Officer Parthum went to a different Bar\and the Police were called in again for drunken disorderly behavaior. Officer Parthum spent the night in Jail. Officer Parthum was suspended for 3 days from the Lebanon Police Department. 2016 There are other examples in the Police Report. Inappropriate Behavior Towards Female Students at Lebanon High School: Officer Parthum is known to groom young women at Lebanon High School and then approach them after they graduate for sexual purposes. This is well known by many young women in the area. Here are a few examples from the ACLU report. Example 1- Officer Parthum had an inappropriate relationship and with an 18 year old student after she graduated. Officer Parthum sent the girl messages calling her beautiful, liking pictures of her in a bathing suit, and offering her rides from parties. Officer Parthum allege the relationship was not true but conceded the messages are true. (see attached) Example 2- Officer Parthum frequently messages female students and former female students at the Lebanon Community Pool. These messages are flirtatious and grooming. Example 3 - Officer Parthum asks a student to replicate the poses the student had made when she had sent nude photo’s of herself. Officer Parthum has her do this alone in his office while looking at naked pictures of the student. Officer Parthum did not get the consent of the parents in advance. There was not follow up or corrective action from this encounter with the femail student. The student claims she was humiliated by Officer Parthum and that Officer Parthum was aroused by her poses and staring at nude photo’s of her and other Lebanon High School Students. The student sent an audio tape to the school detailing incident. (examples range from 2016 to 2022) Example 4 - Social Worker Tia Winters heard multiple complaints about Officer Greg Parthums behavior directly from minors. These complaints included being “very flirtatious” with a Lebanon Special Needs Student, physical aggerssion, and racist behavior. Below are the 3 Official Complaints of Officer Parthum investigated by Lebanon Police Department. January 17, 2023 November 28, 2021 Excerpt from Interview with Ian Smith by Officer Cohen
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