Rep. Liz Reyer, DFL-Eagan, said she is exploring how to toughen the state’s laws around sexual misconduct by educators. Her ideas include improving sexual education, possibly extending the statute of limitations for maltreatment investigations by the Department of Education and coming up with a legal definition for “grooming.”
“The work that I’m doing is to really work on the definitions and what are the behaviors that can’t occur.” Reyer said.
This comes after a story by MPR News detailed an investigation by Eagan police that concluded an alleged “pattern of predatory grooming” by former high school music teacher Brett Benson. A detective there produced a 100-page report following an investigation that went on for nearly two years. No charges were ever filed for any of the allegations, and Benson denied doing anything inappropriate…