Florida- North Port City Commissioner Mike Treubert [pictured] is under investigation by the Sarasota County School Board for allegedly showing a pornographic movie to officers at a police academy class last week.
The class on traffic homicide investigation was canceled Tuesday after a student complained about the explicit video.
“About three days into the class, the instructor showed a porno video which shocked everyone,” said Charlotte County Deputy Ryan White, who reported that the video was very graphic in nature. He was not the source of the complaint against Treubert.
The training class was for working officers and no minors were in the room when the pornography was allegedly played. A total of six officers from various agencies were in the class, including at least one woman.
The incident happened at the Sarasota County Technical Institute campus on Beneva Road. Treubert refused to talk about the investigation on Tuesday.
The School Board refused to release any specifics about the incident, including the nature of the complaint or who made it, citing the internal investigation.
“It’s a question as to whether there was any professional misconduct,” said board spokesman Scott Ferguson.
SCTI runs the Sarasota Criminal Justice Academy and dozens of other job training programs for adults and high school students in their junior and senior years.
Treubert has been teaching at SCTI since 2006 and was paid $50 an hour for the two-week, 80-hour class.
The district informed the Florida Department of Law Enforcement of the internal investigation into Treubert on Tuesday. After the School Board probe, the state panel that certifies police trainers could do its own investigation and possibly revoke Treubert’s teaching certification.
Treubert, a retired Venice police sergeant, was one of three new commissioners elected to North Port leadership in November. He recently pushed through a plan to save North Port homeowner’s millions of dollars in fines by settling scores city code enforcement violations.
The 50-year-old also teaches driver’s education and has been a longtime youth sports coach.
“It was a very good course, and I was disappointed it was canceled,” said White, the Charlotte County deputy. “But I understand why.”
