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January 28, 2008

The downside of the digital age

The football coach of an Atlanta area high school is out after 14 years after a student found suggestive photos of a school administrator on the coach's computer, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Donald Shockley, who has coached Morgan Burnett, a freshman at Georgia Tech, as well as his son, D.J., an Atlanta Falcons quarterback, resigned earlier this month as coach and athletic director at North Clayton High after he acknowledged an intimate relationship with the school's assistant principal.

The relationship came to light after a student -- who was attempting to repair a laptop that was issued to Shockley, who had received two previous misconduct warnings over the previous five years -- found the pictures and downloaded them to his iPod. The student then showed them around school. The pictures, of the assistant principal in lingerie and sexually suggestive poses, eventually made their way to the Internet.

A subsequent investigation discovered that Shockley, despite previously saying that the photos were given to him mistakenly by the assistant principal, Josette Franklin, took the photos on a school-issued camera. Franklin also has resigned.

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