The Alamance-Burlington school system is is citing state personnel law when declining to provide details about the suspension of Woodlawn Middle School principal Deborah Brogden. An school system official:

…(F)urther cited state law in declining to answer questions about whether the suspension was tied to an incident March 8-9, in which some students and parents at the school became concerned about rumored threats of school violence that were publicized on social media websites Twitter and Facebook. Doane noted that state law “does not make the basis for an employee’s suspension a matter of public record,” meaning the system would neither confirm nor deny whether it was linked to the rumor outbreak. The Alamance County Sheriff’s Office, like the school system, has said there was no credible threat of violence behind the rumors.

Tough how to figure out how the principal is taking the fall for this.