{"id":921,"date":"2026-06-12T22:14:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T22:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=921"},"modified":"2026-06-12T22:14:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T22:14:58","slug":"a-chester-county-cop-made-an-illegal-recording-of-the-school-board-he-served-on-he-lost-both-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=921","title":{"rendered":"A Chester County cop made an illegal recording of the school board he served on. He lost both jobs."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div><audio><\/audio><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For nearly 30 years, Anthony Falgiatore Sr. served his community in Chester County in two roles, as an East Whiteland Township Police sergeant, and a member of the Octorara Area School Board.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=919\">Pa. treasurer was right to deny $1 million payment for security upgrades on Gov. Josh Shapiro\u2019s home, AG\u2019s office says<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>But Falgiatore, 57, lost both of those positions, resigning after Pennsylvania State Police charged him in January with illegally recording a closed executive session of the school board, a felony offense.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Last month, Falgiatore, of Atglen, enrolled in an advanced rehabilitative disposition program for first-time offenders that will see his charges dismissed and expunged upon completion.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>In a statement, Falgiatore\u2019s attorney, Vince DiFabio, said neither he nor his client wished to comment on the case.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Members of the school board that served with Falgiatore before he resigned after a decade said they were frustrated that someone who swore to uphold the law would violate it so blatantly. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Brian Fox, who served as the board\u2019s president when the 32-minute recording was made, said Falgiatore\u2019s actions were a \u201cbetrayal of trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe thing that made it egregious was his role as a police officer,\u201d Fox said in an interview. \u201cThese meetings are closed for a reason. We vote publicly, but we need to meet beforehand to discuss sensitive topics like personnel and legal matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Fox said the April 17, 2023 executive session Falgiatore recorded was one in which they discussed a federal civil-rights lawsuit filed by John Ryan Miller, a local activist. Falgiatore, according to Fox, argued that the Octorara Area School District should not be paying the legal expenses for board members named in the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Miller filed the suit against nearly 80 public officials in the county, including all of the Octorara Area School Board except for Falgiatore, asserting that his constitutional rights were violated when he was barred from speaking at a public meeting in 2022 and later arrested for trespassing when trying to speak at another meeting.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Karen S. Marston dismissed Miller\u2019s suit in March 2024, court records show, saying he had failed to demonstrate that his First Amendment rights were violated by the school board.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>A week after he recorded the meeting, Falgiatore wrote in a post on his public Facebook page that he opposed paying legal billsrelated to Miller\u2019s lawsuit because it \u201cis a private legal matter against the balance of the board members and other district staff in their private person capacity.\u201d <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI am the only board member not named in the lawsuit because I honored my oath of office to protect and defend the US Constitution and the Pa State Constitution and persons rights,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe board denied a citizen the right to speak for 3 minutes during the public comments portion of a board meeting because the citizen would not follow a policy that requires a speaker to identify who they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>He said the board\u2019s policy \u201cdoes not supersede the constitution,\u201d and said the issue is one he was fighting on behalf of the constituents who elected him.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>It was unclear how much Miller\u2019s lawsuit cost the school board.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Falgiatore was elected to the Octorara Area School Board in 2015, and served on it until his resignation in March 2025, days after state police began investigating the recording. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=917\">For the first time in several years, it was a little easier to get into Penn<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>In a letter sent to the board, Falgiatore said he was resigning \u201cso as not to be a distraction to the business of the board.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Falgiatore\u2019s career with East Whiteland Township Police started in 1997, according to an article published in the West Chester Daily Local .<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>East Whiteland Township Police Chief G. Christian Yeager confirmed to a reporter that Falgiatore is no longer employed by the department, but declined to comment further.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>What motivated Falgiatore to make the illegal recording of the Octorara Area School Board\u2019s executive session remained unclear.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Investigators wrote in the affidavit of probable cause for Falgiatore\u2019s arrest that an East Whiteland Township lieutenant discovered the audio file on his department-issued cellphone in March 2025. Falgiatore had named the file \u201cOSB private meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Investigators did not say what prompted the East Whiteland lieutenant to search Falgiatore\u2019s phone.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>State police troopers played the recording for school board members, including Fox, who confirmed that it was made without their knowledge, the affidavit said.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Investigators also found Falgiatore exchanged texts with someone in December 2024, months after making the illegal recording. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The person, whom police did not name in court filings, instructed Fagliatore to make another recording like he did with the \u201cCurtis blowup,\u201d an apparent reference to the April 2024 executive session, which included then-Octorara Area School District business manager Jeff Curtis, the affidavit said.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>(In an interview with state police, Curtis listened to the recording and said he recognized it as being a meeting at which he had \u201cblown up\u201d at Fagliatore, according to the affidavit.)<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Two months after making the recording, in an interview with the Lancaster Patriot, a conservative news website, Falgiatore said he was the victim of a harassment campaign because of his support of Miller. He told the site that someone had sent anonymous, threatening letters to his home and began contacting the East Whiteland Township Police after he \u201cspoke up on behalf of Miller.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Falgiatore and Miller were also interviewed together on an October 2023 episode of Lancaster Patriot\u2019s podcast that discussed Miller\u2019s lawsuit against the district.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Despite his stated support, Fagliatore said he was not part of the lawsuit \u2014 he was not named as a plaintiff \u2014 and was supporting Miller because he believed his rights were violated.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=916\">TED Democracy Philadelphia asks \u2018How do you make democracy better?\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Falgiatore Sr. entered into an advanced rehabilitative disposition program after police say he illegally recorded an executive session of the Octorara Area School Board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Chester County cop made an illegal recording of the school board he served on. 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