Brian Shortmeier

• Many years as the director of child protection.

• He was allegedly involved in child abuse response, even if the accused was his long-time colleague.

• Allegedly told an investigation panel that Ethnos360 would implement their recommendations and then attempted to manipulate the outcome, ultimately refusing to enact the recommendations.

• Compared the severity "excessive corporate punishment" that "was not acceptable in this decade or any other" and required removal "from the possibility of working with children" to a child stealing a cookie from the cookie jar, defending their decision not to dismiss the perpetrator.

• Compared a childhood abuse survivor and the person who abused them with two coworkers who can't get along, insisting that "each side is looking for some sort of pronouncement that the other side is totally in the wrong and that is almost never the case."