Leah Collister-Lazzari
By Steve Zalusky | Daily Herald
Two Barrington Area Unit School District 220 board members violated board policies by posting images of students, district property and the district’s chess piece logo on campaign social media sites, an outside investigator determined.
Board members Leah Collister-Lazzari and Barry Altshuler have since deactivated those campaign Facebook pages.
Barry Altshuler
The same investigation cleared board President Sandra Ficke-Bradford of alleged wrongdoing for a photo of her in front of Barrington High School that appeared in a 2025 Daily Herald article.
The school board on Thursday accepted the results of the investigation, which was conducted by the law firm of Robbins Schwartz. None of Collister-Lazzari, Altshuler or Ficke-Bradford addressed the report during the meeting.
Collister-Lazzari and Ficke-Bradford later declined to comment on the findings.
“I admit that I’m not a perfect person,” Altshuler said after the meeting. “I’m just not sure it had to go the way it went.”
The investigation was sparked by a complaint made anonymously under the school district’s Uniform Grievance Procedure.
The investigation report said Collister-Lazzari stated that in 2023 she followed what was district protocol at the time in using the school district’s logo in campaign materials.
Report continues here.
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