COLUMBIA — A Charleston County school board member at the center of potentially multiple state investigations told a panel Sept. 28 that she didn’t mean to share confidential information or tip the scales to get a contract for her former campaign manager.
The hearing, which lasted nearly four hours, was the first of its kind under a 2022 state law that gave the governor the ability to remove any school board member who engages in “malfeasance, misfeasance, chronic unexcused absenteeism, conflicts of interest, misconduct in office, or persistent neglect of duty in office.” By law, the governor must give the school board member a chance to be heard before making that decision.
And Darlene Dunmeyer-Roberson asked for the opportunity to defend herself against the findings of an investigation by the state inspector general’s office…