(Des Moines, IA) — Des Moines Public Schools is suing the firm responsible for vetting a recently detained former Superintendent. It comes after ICE agents arrested Ian Roberts who has resigned from his position as the district’s leader.
According to the school board’s chair, the district is now suing JG Consulting because “the search firm failed in their duty to properly vet the candidates and Ian Roberts should have never been presented as a potential Superintendent.”
Roberts first came to the U.S. from Guyana in 1999 under a student visa, and authorities allege he had removal orders from a judge last year as well as a weapons charge in 2020.
