UNION COUNTY — Criminal charges will not be filed against the Union County Public Schools superintendent after a State Bureau of Investigation involving school laptops.
This is an investigation that Channel 9 broke in November.
PAST COVERAGE: Sheriff requests help from SBI for investigation of superintendent
Superintendent Mary Ellis is the president of a company called Educatrx which also employed two other top school administrators and a sales executive from computer maker Lenovo.
Lenovo was in the middle of a contract to sell thousands of laptops to the district.
The SBI said it didn't identify any criminal acts in its investigation.
The Union County Board of Education will hold a special meeting on Monday. They haven't said what that meeting is about, but did say it has to do with a confidential personnel matter.
The announcement came hours after the SBI said Ellis would not be criminally charged.
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